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Marco Grasso

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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it | George Monbiot
Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Solar Radiation Management www.politico.com/news/magazin...
politico.com
The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
www.ft.com/content/c4b2...
ft.com
China unveils sweeping rare-earth export controls to protect ‘national security’
Rules come ahead of expected meeting this month between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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Fossil Fuel Firms Oversee Just 1% of Global Renewable Energy Projects,
A recent comprehensive study conducted by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) delivers a sobering assessment of the fossil fuel
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Trump sends fracking CEO to Europe to sell climate denial—and gas open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...
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Trump sends fracking CEO to Europe to sell climate denial—and gas
Debunking some of Chris Wright's most egregious lies
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Big things here: www.yahoo.com/news/article...
yahoo.com
China takes bold step forward in global race for limitless energy device: 'We have fully mastered the core technologies'
China is doubling down on its efforts.
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
bloomberg.com
Wall Street Sees Decline in Dealmaking for Oil and Gas Clients
Today’s newsletter looks at the decline in lending for fossil fuel projects. Plus, a scoop on the return of a key federal database that the Trump administration killed. For unlimited access to climate...
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
www.iisd.org/publications...
iisd.org
July 2025 | Carbon Minefields Oil and Gas Exploration Monitor
Last month, governments across five countries granted 55 new oil and gas exploration licences, locking in reserves whose eventual combustion would unleash roughly 382.4 MtCO2.
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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recommon.org
“L'idrogeno non è una soluzione, ma l'ennesimo piacere alle multinazionali come Snam”. Il nuovo rapporto di ReCommon critica con forza la strategia sull'idrogeno del governo italiano - ReCommon
Roma, 30 luglio 2025 – ReCommon lancia oggi la pubblicazione “La strategia sull’idrogeno è solo un favore a Snam?”, redatta
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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Quando la finanza è chiamata a rispondere del clima che cambia
Crescono le climate litigation contro banche e fondi per investimenti inquinanti. Sotto accusa greenwashing e mancate azioni sul clima
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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Perché abbiamo definito storica la sentenza della Cassazione? - ReCommon
Ce lo spiega Matteo Ceruti, avvocato della Giusta Causa. Matteo Ceruti è l’avvocato di ReCommon per la “Giusta Causa”. Può
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks
Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Around 250 million years ago, Earth was near-lifeless and locked in a hothouse state. Now scientists know why theconversation.com/around-250-m...
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Around 250 million years ago, Earth was near-lifeless and locked in a hothouse state. Now scientists know why
The answer confirms scientists’ suspicion that when our planet’s climate crosses certain ‘tipping points’, truly catastrophic ecological collapse can follow.
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter
As cities heat up, reflective roofs could lower energy bills and help the climate. But dark-roofing manufacturers are waging a quiet campaign to block new rules
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
newyorker.com
Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Leading News Outlets Are Doing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Greenwashing theintercept.com/2023/12/05/f...
theintercept.com
Leading News Outlets Are Doing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Greenwashing
Seven of the world’s “most trusted” media companies produce and promote content touting the key talking points of oil and gas.
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
axios.com
Axios Generate
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
www.csis.org/analysis/tru...
csis.org
Trump’s Deep-Sea Mining Executive Order: The Race for Critical Minerals Enters Uncharted Waters
On April 24, President Trump announced an executive order to pursue the exploration and exploitation of deep-sea minerals within the outer continental shelf as well as in areas beyond national jurisdi...
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Battle lines over deep-sea mining www.axios.com/newsletters/... #axiosgenerate
axios.com
Axios Generate - 1 big thing: Battle lines over deep-sea mining
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
New article on the resistance to #solarpower in Italy "The resistance to solar energy expansion in Italy: a systemic perspective" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The resistance to solar energy expansion in Italy: a systemic perspective - Sustainability Science
This article examines the systemic resistance to the expansion of solar energy infrastructure in Italy. It does so with a focus on rural areas. Using a multifaceted methodological approach, the study ...
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
What's next in Trump's war on wind www.axios.com/newsletters/... #axiosgenerate
axios.com
Axios Generate - 1 big thing: What's next in Trump's war on wind
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
www.desmog.com/2025/04/14/h...
desmog.com
Group Behind ‘Autocratic’ Trump Agenda Working on Albanian Election
The Heritage Foundation, the U.S. group that produced a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term, is trying to shape the upcoming Albanian election, DeSmog can report. The opposition candidate Sal...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/04/2025
The level of dark lobbying and PR campaigns the meat industry is engaging in right now is completely bonkers www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Predicting climate chaos, Morgan Stanley touts air conditioning profit potential open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...
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Predicting climate chaos, Morgan Stanley touts air conditioning profit potential
This is disaster capitalism at its worst.
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
www.cfr.org/article/our-...
cfr.org
Our Approach to Climate Policy Has Failed. It’s Time for Climate Realism
U.S. policymakers need a new strategy to confront the risks of climate change, compete in the global energy transition, and stay the course regardless of which political party is in power. A doctrine…
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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floodlightnews.org
Fueling Knowledge: Oil and gas money shapes research, creates ‘echo chamber’ in higher education
Louisiana’s flagship university is looking to partner more closely with petrochemical industries in the state
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PLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · 20/03/2025
Introducing a PLOS Climate Mini Collection on "Emerging Themes in Climate Obstruction", convened by Academic Editor @mgrasso.bsky.social 👇 latitude.plos.org/2025/03/emer... @climatessn.bsky.social @alainakinol.bsky.social @jenniecstephens.bsky.social
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Emerging Themes in Climate Obstruction: a PLOS Climate Mini Collection - Latitude
PLOS Climate Academic Editor Marco Grasso has convened a Mini Collection of articles on “Emerging Themes in Climate Obstruction”. Here, Marco introduces…
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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State of the Global Climate 2024
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Now, it’s called ‘energy pragmatism’ …. www.axios.com/newsletters/...
axios.com
Axios Generate
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 05/03/2025
The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn’t bother Trump – and I know why | George Monbiot #Climate
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The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn’t bother Trump – and I know why | George Monbiot
He is surrounded by people who have plans and dreams beyond our planet. Vengeful nihilism is a big part of the Maga project, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
China announces plans for major renewable projects to tackle climate change www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
reuters.com
China announces plans for major renewable projects to tackle climate change
China said on Wednesday it would develop a package of major projects to tackle climate change as it moved towards peak carbon emissions and carbon neutrality.
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Europe's Defense Budget Rips Through Its Climate-Crisis-Buffer www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Europe’s Defense Budget Rips Through Its Climate-Crisis Buffer
The redirection of billions of euros earmarked to fight the fallout of floods, droughts and cyclones in poorer countries has global implications.
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
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DRAFT: Weekly Newsletter, Jan 12, 2025
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
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insideclimatenews.org
Misinformation Spreads Like Wildfire Online While LA Neighborhoods Burn - Inside Climate News
Misleading claims and falsehoods about water and firefighting resources distracted from the unprecedented conditions that left Los Angeles primed for the most destructive fire in its history.
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Ronald Steenblik @ronsteenblik.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
1️⃣ After citing the IMF's $7 trillion/yr estimate of "fossil fuel subsidies", the article quotes Marco Grasso (@mgrasso.bsky.social), a professor of political geography at the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy: "Reducing such subsidies, and redirecting them into loss and damage funds, ...
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Should major fossil fuel companies pay for climate damage? – DW – 11/19/2024
Another year of wildfires, heat, hurricanes and floods linked to human-made climate change has raised the stakes about who should pay for the damage. Are fossil fuel companies contributing?
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Marco Grasso @mgrasso.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
insideclimatenews.org/news/1112202...
insideclimatenews.org
Arctic Tundra Shifts to Source of Climate Pollution, According to New Report Card - Inside Climate News
NOAA scientists and affiliated researchers have documented profound change in the frozen north as U.S. government science itself faces an uncertain future.
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Climate Analytics @climateanalytics.org · 13/11/2024
The Global Carbon Budget out today predicts emissions will rise 0.8% this year, meaning we have not yet peaked 🏔️❌ While our expectations for renewables were actually surpassed, this wasn't enough to bring emissions down. We delve into why 🧵⤵️ climateanalytics.org/comment/new-...
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New gas and oil has prevented CO2 global emissions from peaking
The Global Carbon Budget's first estimate for 2024's CO2 emissions suggests emissions rose by 0.8% this year. We delve into why we haven't peaked emissions yet.
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