Environment
More trains, fewer emissions
Wednesday 27 October 2021 |
Lorenzo Ferrari Gianluca De Feo
| OBC Transeuropa
Currently, trains offer a reasonable alternative to around half of the most popular short-haul flights in Europe. Additional improvements and incentives could bring further reductions in CO2 emissions from transport.
Data centres: the last great tech threat to energy sustainability
Thursday 21 April 2022 |
José Luis Marín | El Orden Mundial
The energy needs of these physical infrastructure, where much of the world’s digital information is stored, have grown exponentially in recent years. While business has been booming, so have concerns about their sustainability and the environmental threats that data centres present.
Romania: 25,000 deaths from pollution per year
Thursday 16 December 2021 |
Mihaela Iordache | OBC Transeuropa
For years the media have denounced that Romania is becoming the landfill of Europe. Yet, the institutions do not intervene, and meanwhile the European Environment Agency reports that the country ranks first in Europe for deaths caused by pollution.
Covid-19: the plastic pandemic
Monday 24 May 2021 |
Marco Ranocchiari | OBC Transeuropa
In Europe, the period 2020-2021 was to mark the turning point in the fight against plastic waste, one of the most urgent problems of our century. Then came the new Coronavirus: with masks, gloves, and anti-contagion packaging, the risk of a step back is increasingly concrete
Half of the European funds spent to fight climate change went into ineffective measures
Tuesday 06 July 2021 |
Gianluca De Feo | OBC Transeuropa
As part of the Common Agricultural Policy, the European Union spent 100 billion Euros to combat climate change between 2014 and 2020. But these funds, which make up half of the entire EU budget earmarked for the fight against climate change, have not led to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
Sustainability labels and the carbon footprint of foods
Friday 22 October 2021 |
Gianluca De Feo | OBC Transeuropa
If the European Union really wants to meet its Green Deal targets, food related emissions must be curbed. To that end, the introduction of "traffic light" sustainability labels could convince Europeans to cut down on their meat consumption.
EU banks are funding an illegal palm oil bonanza in the “Wild East”
Thursday 29 April 2021 |
Stefano Valentino | Voxeurop
MobileReporter
Financial institutions from European countries have provided large sums of money to palm oil companies responsible for illegal fires and possibly deforestation in Indonesia.
Beach erosion puts European seaside holidays at risk
Wednesday 22 July 2020 |
Stefano Valentino | MobileReporter
Voxeurop
The data on global warming suggests that many seaside resorts in Atlantic and Mediterranean Europe could lose their beaches due to sand erosion caused by rising sea levels and human activity.
Climate warming in Europe, municipality by municipality
Large investigation
Thursday 14 May 2020 |
Lorenzo Ferrari Ornaldo Gjergji
| OBC Transeuropa
In more than 35,000 European municipalities, average temperatures have risen by more than 2°C over the last fifty years. From big cities to small villages, the climate crisis reaches every corner of Europe – but citizens are rising up, and people in power are finally taking action.
A Grand Tour of global warming in south-east Europe
Wednesday 03 March 2021 |
Antoine Laurent | OBC Transeuropa
Drawing inspiration from the long voyages taken by well-off European youths in centuries past, OBC Transeuropa takes us on a tour of global warming hotspots in south-east Europe.
