G7 ambiente: il DECOLOGO di 100 scienziati e 200 associazioni

G7 Ambiente: 100 scienziati e 200 associazioni lanciano a Bologna il “DECOLOGO per una società ecologica” 10 punti e 78 proposte concrete per un’Italia a zero emissioni e zero veleni È stato presentato oggi a Bologna il Decologo per una società ecologica, il manifesto di proposte redatto e promosso da un’ampia rete di rappresentanti della comunità scientifica e accademica e da circa 200 associazioni attive in tutto il paese sul fronte...

[posted on ClientEarth, April 28, 2017] EU countries have voted to secure tough new industrial pollution rules that could save thousands of lives each year. These standards have not been updated since 2006 and environment organisations have campaigned strongly to ensure success this time. After the UK lobbied to weaken the ‘LCP BREF’, as it’s known, environmental lawyers ClientEarth led a group of NGOs to write to Secretary of State...

[posted by Helen Thomson on New Scientist, May 8, 2017] Improving the worst environments in the US could prevent 39 in every 100,000 cancer deaths. That’s according to the first study to address the impact of cumulative exposure to environmental hazards on cancer incidence in the US, which found strong links between poor environmental quality and increased rates of cancer. The environment we live in can influence biological processes...

On the basis of the anti-Chevron campaign, several Swiss organizations have launched a call to the Swiss National Bank (BNS) to request that it intervenes in the annual Assembly of Chevron Corporation in the United States on 31 May 2017 to vote in favour of climate, human rights and environmental resolutions. In two resolutions, the Ecuadorian case is also mentioned which, according to the shareholder initiators, has been...

[posted by Maurizio Bongioanni on SlowFood, May 30, 2017] An independent study finds consistent traces of glyphosate in a sample of pregnant women in Rome. Since the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified glyphosate as ‘probably carcinogenic for humans’, the debate raging round the world’s most used herbicide has mounted, while the license to use it in Europe has been renewed for the whole of 2017. If you still...

[posted on Friends of the Earth International, April 11 , 2017] El Salvador made history last week by becoming the first country ever to ban metal mining.  The success of this decades long struggle is proof that people can take on corporate interests and win. This is the story of how the people of El Salvador took on mining giants. Mining has a dark history in El Salvador. Years of unregulated, pro-investor policies coupled with rapid...