Cheap clothes seem like a golden opportunity for easy access to fashion. The fast fashion phenomenon is flooding the planet with waste, endangering entire ecosystems and people’s health.
Environment
The Global Stocktake is a key component of the Paris Agreement, which aims to address global climate change. Its first report was finalised at the last COP, held in 2023 in Dubai.
For the European Union, the transition to a greener labour market is also the key to a more environmentally responsible and socially just society.
What measures is the European Union (EU) preparing to tackle the problem of greenwashing, and what is the role of the new consumer as a strategic asset for change?
Nowadays, we all have the concept of “greenwashing” very present in our daily lives, as it represents a significant obstacle on the road to a real ecological transition.
“Your Honours,
The climate challenge is not just another issue in your inbox.
Protecting our climate is the world’s greatest test of leadership.
And that is why I ask you to lead.
The fate of humanity is at stake.
Make this COP count.
Make this COP a turning point.
Make this COP the new hope for the future of humanity.”
(António Guterres, Segretario Generale delle Nazioni Unite, 1 dicembre 2023)
The Conference of the Parties (COP) was held this year in Dubai, an oil-producing country, but it was this year’s COP that included in the new text the desire to “leave fossil fuels behind”.
The COP28 conference, attended by representatives of 197 countries plus the European Union as parties to the UN Framework Convention, ended on 12 December 2023.
For the first time, OPEC and the oil industry in general will have their own space at the COP28 climate conference.
Doñana, in the south of Spain, is an extensive territory of special natural interest but threatened by numerous attacks. The drought caused by the climate emergency, or the management of the park by the Andalusian Government, has caused the area to be expelled from a prestigious international green list.