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Mar

OMAR DI FELICE COMPLETED THE WINTER CROSSING OF LADAKH

Omar Di Felice completed the long solo winter crossing of the Himalayan region of Ladakh by bicycle. After 11 days in the saddle, 1100 kilometres and almost 20,000 metres of altitude difference, he concluded his adventure on the summit of Khardung La at 5359 metres above sea level.

Mar

WOMEN’S DAY: GENDER EQUALITY & CLIMATE CRISYS

Climate and Rights

For International Women's Day, ICN decided to dedicate an article to the issue of gender equality regarding climate change and its adverse events.

Mar

POSTPONEMENT OF THE VOTE ON STOPPING ENDOTHERMIC ENGINES FROM 2035

Press release

The vote by the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the Governments of the Member States of the European Union on the EU regulation blocking the production and marketing of CO2-emitting vehicles from 2035 has been postponed until a later date. A postponement that was deemed 'an Italian success'. Below is the comment of the Italian Climate Network with the statement of its President, Serena Giacomin.

Feb

FUR FREE EUROPE INITIATIVE, THE ETHICAL, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF ANIMAL FUR PRODUCTION

Climate and Rights

On 16 March 2022, the FUR FREE EUROPE initiative was registered with the European Commission, which envisages the abolition of animal fur farms and fur sales throughout Europe. The reasons for collecting more than 1,530,000 signatures across Europe in favour of this initiative are manifold.

Feb

BRAZIL, LIGHTS AND SHADOWS ON LULA’S FIRST TWO MONTHS

Climate and Advocacy

The great enthusiasm that greeted the re-election of Ignacio Lula da Silva as President of Brazil last autumn also reverberated among the pavilions of COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh when the newly elected President visited the Brazilian pavilion together with Environment Minister Marina Silva. Welcomed with choruses in the activists' embrace, Lula had even gone so far as to nominate Brazil as host country for COP30, scheduled for 2025, in the Amazon, symbolically stitching up the wound produced by Bolsonaro's sudden 'no' in 2019, to COP25 already organised and then migrated first to Chile, then to Spain, now bringing it to a highly symbolic location. But how have the first two months of Lula's government gone from the point of view of the environment and climate? It is difficult, due to the complex international scenario, to draw a complete line, but the stories of a ship and of the Amazon Forest they are going to be mentioned, help us in the clearing up our minds.

Feb

ALONE IN LADAKH OMAR DI FELICE EMBARKS ON ANOTHER STAGE OF THE ‘BIKE TO 1.5°C’ PROJECT

Press release

Ultra cyclist Omar Di Felice's 2023 begins with a new extreme winter adventure crossing the remote Ladakh region among the Himalayan mountains and glaciers. After returning early from Antarctica and waiting to set off again on what will be his second attempt to cross the planet's most remote continent, he has set a new goal. An adventure that marks the point of departure: Omar will cross one of the highest and coldest regions on Earth, Ladakh. Located in the north of India, on the border between Pakistan and China, the region is the Himalayan district that still preserves Tibetan Buddhism intact, so much so that it is also nicknamed 'the Little Tibet of India'.

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