™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Continuing to extract and burn gas and oil is a crime that will increasingly aggravate the climate emergency, with loss of life, environmental destruction, and serious economic and social impacts,” Spadini added. “We are not facing simple episodes of bad weather, but real tragedies fueled by global warming that have clear perpetrators.

Italy is particularly vulnerable to climate change due to its geography, which puts it at high risk of landslides, and because it is surrounded by the warming Mediterranean Sea, increasing the chance of strong storms.įederico Spadini, a spokesman for Greenpeace Italy’s climate campaign, said extreme weather events “risk becoming the norm if we do not urgently address the causes of the climate crisis.” While it’s too soon to know for certain what role climate change played in the floods, scientists say that, as levels of planet-heating pollution increase, the world can expect more frequent and more severe extreme weather.

And Italy once again proves unprepared,” Italian environmentalist association Legambiente said Thursday in a press release. The climate crisis “is affecting territories with increasingly intense extreme events, with risks to people’s lives, and impacts on the environment and the economy. Some Italian environmentalists have criticized the government for a lack of preparedness. Relief operations are ongoing, with 1,097 firefighters deployed in the region, according to authorities “We must have strength,” he said, adding that the government needed to implement “urgent and extraordinary measures.” “We have rebuilt almost everything, but today we are facing another earthquake,” Bonaccini said at a press conference on Thursday.

Stefano Bonaccini, the president of Emilia Romagna, described the scale of the destruction as a “new earthquake,” just days before the anniversary of the earthquake that ripped through the region in 2012, killing 28 people.

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