Training materials for Citizens

Training materials on the main topics of Climate Change and the Air and Climate Plan designed to offer Milanese citizens the opportunity to learn the basics of these topics and to guarantee all participants in the Permanent Citizens' Assembly on Climate similar basic information.
These materials were selected by the Milano Cambia Aria staff among many resources already available online.
The selection of videos, podcasts and documents will continue to be expanded over time with new content and is constantly updated.

Credits: IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | Working Group I
Technical Support Unit, 2021.

Have you ever heard of climate change? The Earth's climate changes
continuously for many hundreds of millions of years. But why the changes instead
Are today's climates different and should we worry about it? What can we do for
face them?
Credits: Video made by Oikos Institute as part of the Green School projects and
Children Stand Up, thanks to the support of the Italian Agency for Cooperation
Development and the European Climate Initiative (EUKI) of the German Federal Ministry for
Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), 2021.

We have entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Its characteristic is impact
of humanity on the global environment. What are the physical limits not to be exceeded if we want to
avoid the collapse of ecosystems and the climate? How to achieve awareness of the challenge
epochal moment we face? There are solutions, from renewable energy to
decrease in waste, but every day we lose makes the road more difficult and risks
higher. We must act, for our quality of life and that of our children and grandchildren.
Credits: Luca Mercalli, TEDxTurin 2017, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

"Zero emissions, extreme events, carbon budgets. It's true, global warming is bringing with it a change in the climate we live in, but it is also changing the way we talk, the words we use to describe what is happening – consciously – around us.
The climate glossary is becoming increasingly richer, more fluid and even more familiar even to those people who until recently seemed light years away from these topics or who in any case do not exactly have the climate on the list of their daily priorities. We have chosen five expressions to try to provide a useful tool, a little cheat sheet within everyone's reach. To orient yourself in the sea of ​​news we receive every day.
In this video with Tommaso Perrone, managing director of LifeGate, we analyze the climate glossary together."

Credits: Lifegate, 2023

Credits: Chiara Sabelli, Italian Climate Network School Project, 2016

Carbon is the backbone of life on Earth. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases regulate the temperature on our planet. In fact we are made of carbon, we eat carbon and our economies are based on carbon. There is approximately 1,85 PgC on our planet, most of the terrestrial carbon is stored in rocks and sediments. The rest is found in the ocean, atmosphere and living organisms. Carbon moves naturally from one reservoir to another through a variety of mechanisms called flows. In the biosphere, plants move carbon from the atmosphere to the biosphere through photosynthesis to produce energy. The ocean, on the other hand, plays a fundamental role in carbon storage, as it contains approximately 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere. Bidirectional exchange of carbon can occur rapidly between ocean surface waters and the atmosphere, but carbon can be stored for centuries in the deepest ocean depths. From the industrial revolution onwards we have in fact begun to extract and burn enormous quantities of fossil fuels, introducing carbon that has long been buried and stored naturally in the depths of the Earth. This carbon, which would have taken millions of years to enter the atmosphere through geological processes, is instead released in a geological instant, upsetting the natural balance of the carbon cycle.

Credits: Geopop, 2021

"Global warming means the increase in temperatures on Earth which began at the end of the 19th century and is currently ongoing. Many believe that the causes of the change in the Earth's climate do not depend on man given that human activities produce only a small quantity of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
In this video we show you what global warming is and what causes it using a 750ml bottle (the natural carbon emissions in the air) and a shot (the amount of carbon produced by man)."

Credits: Geopop, 2021

Climate change is nothing new and geological data confirms that climate variations have always been part of the Earth's history. But if the climate has always changed in the past, why is the global warming we are experiencing today different? The answer is related to the time scale. 
In this video we tell how the climate has changed over time, what climate changes have occurred in the history of the Earth and we explain the difference between the current one and previous climate variations.

Credits: Geopop, 2021

Climate change is a measured and measurable, tangible and observable reality, and 5000 years of history of climatology tells us how we have become increasingly aware of the laws that determine it. Now more than ever we can no longer pretend not to know that humanity has changed the Earth's climate and that it is up to humanity to act against global warming. Gianluca Lentini is a geophysicist; specialized in climatology and, for over 15 years, has dedicated himself to climate change and climatology. 
He has addressed climate change with different approaches and methodologies, dealing with meteorological data to study future trends and projections and taking part in national and international projects on environmental sustainability. He is the author and scientific editor of the children's book Gaia. Planet Earth and the changing climate (Feltrinelli, 2013, 2019), and author of the book Climate Stories. From Mesopotamia to the Exoplanets (Hoepli, 2021). 
He has held numerous conferences on the topic of climate change at educational institutions, universities and associations. In 2022 he participated, as an expert, in the episode on climatology of the RAI program dedicated to the History of Science. He works as a researcher and project manager for Poliedra (Polimi), dedicating himself to international projects on environmental sustainability and sustainable mobility. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

Credits: Gianluca Lentini, TEDxVicenza 2022, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

Let's start from the basics: how does the climate work and why does it change? The causes of its evolution
Are they of natural or anthropogenic origin? With Elisa Palazzi, climate physicist at the CNR and teacher
at the University of Turin, we try to understand what are the internal dynamics of that complex system that is the climate and what are the external factors that act on it, while
Alex Nicolini of The Climate Route association takes us to Chukotka to see the effects
of the climate crisis on the lives of Arctic communities.
Credits: FRida UniTo - From climate to bottom podcast, 2021

If the Earth existed for 24 hours, we Homo Sapiens would have arrived just 1, 2, 3 ... 4 ago
seconds! Yet in these 4 seconds we made quite a mess! In the first part
we understood what the climate system is, how it works and how it evolves over time. Now,
To understand climate change, it's time to explore a new concept: the Anthropocene.
We do it with the geologist Marco Giardino and with the environmental humanist Daniela Fargione,
both professors at the University of Turin. Mariagrazia Ieva of The Climate Route takes us on
Caspian Sea to see the concrete effects of exploitation and pollution.
Credits: FRida UniTo - From climate to bottom podcast, 2021

We are used to considering the different temporal dimensions as separate from each other, but i
boundaries between past, present and future are never really clear. This also applies to
climate change, the consequences of which strongly depend on how we manage
the current emergency.Fires, hurricanes, floods, droughts: the present dimension of
Climate change is made up of extreme meteorological events and real disasters. But
Are we sure it's limited to this? We talk about it in this first part with Giorgio
Vacchiano, professor and researcher in forest management and planning at the University
Statale di Milano, and Carlotta Quagliolo, PhD student in Urban and Regional Development
at the Polytechnic of Turin, while with The Climate Route we go to Sicily, where the
The climate crisis has already profoundly changed the marine ecosystem.
Credits: FRida UniTo - From climate to bottom podcast, 2021

The effects of climate change are both present and future, but if it is already difficult
realize the former, the real challenge is to imagine the latter. Luckily the community
science, in addition to imagination, has tools and models to study the climate that
will come and to explore its impacts far beyond the boundaries we are used to thinking about
we speak with Carlotta Quagliolo, PhD student in Urban and Regional Development at the
Polytechnic of Turin, and Annalisa Viani, specializing in the Science department
Veterinary surgeons at the University of Turin. And then we ask them to tell us more about the expedition and the project of The Climate Route, whose mission is precisely to make the public more
aware of the effects of the climate crisis.
Credits: FRida UniTo - From climate to bottom podcast, 2021

"As part of the participatory path of the Air and Climate Plan -
www.comune.milano.it/piano-aria-clima - the “Short jazz story of the climate crisis”,
excerpt from the show "Some Like It Hot - Conference show on the climate that
changes” by Stefano Caserini, gives the opportunity to learn more about the causes and solutions of
climate crisis. A scientific story, made with images, animations, jazz music and
video, which is accompanied by the analysis of how we are individually and collectively
by addressing and we will be able to address the climate issue. The show is preceded
from the introduction by Gloria Zavatta, Sole Director of AMAT, and followed by a short
discussion between Stefano Caserini and Piero Pelizzaro, Director of the City Project Management
Resilients of the Municipality of Milan."
Credits: Stefano Caserini for the Municipality of Milan, 2020

In Episode 1, we kick off the series with a big picture look at the history of our planet.🌎
We start by looking back at the last 10,000 years of climate stability and explore how the
discovery of ancient fossil fuels changed the course of humanity as we know it.
Credits: Earthrise Studio, 2021

Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. Itseems ours
emissions will not fall quickly enough to avoid runaway warming and we may soon hit
tipping pointsthat will lead to the collapse of ecosystems and our civilization. While
scientists, activists and much of the younger generation urge action, it appears most
politicians are not committed to doing anything meaningful while the fossil fuel industry still
works actively against change. Itseems humanity can't overcome its greed and obsession
with short term profit and personal gain to save itself. And so for many the future looks
grim and hopeless. Young people feel particularly anxious and depressed. Instead of looking
ahead to a lifetime of opportunity they wonder if they will even have a future or if they
should bring kids into this world. It's an age of doom and hopelessness and giving up seems
the only sensible thing to do. But that's not true. You are not doomed. Humanity is not
doomed.
Credits: kurzgesagt.org, 2022

When we talk about response to the climate crisis, we can distinguish between two types of
strategies: those of mitigation, which act on the causes, and those of adaptation which
allow you to limit the damage. The game is played both globally and locally
local: where are we at? And if many solutions already exist, why are they not adopted
How much should they? We talk about it with Marco Bagliani, Laura Corazza, Tommaso Orusa and
Dario Padovan, professors and researchers at the University of Turin as well as authors of “Lessico e
clouds"
To continue learning more read:
Lexicon and clouds: the words of climate change (PDF) - Edited by Gianni Latini,
Marco Bagliani, Tommaso Orusa. II edition, November 2020, University of
Turin.
Credits: FRida UniTo - From climate to bottom podcast, 2021

The impacts of the climate crisis spare no one and the damage - environmental, economic and
social - are more or less evident at any latitude. How governments are responding
national and local governments? While entire populations are forced to migrate,
What adaptation strategies do companies apply instead?
To continue learning more read:
Lexicon and clouds: the words of climate change (PDF) - Edited by Gianni Latini,
Marco Bagliani, Tommaso Orusa. II edition, November 2020, University of
Turin.
Credits: FRida UniTo - From climate to bottom podcast, 2021

Let's discover together the role and importance of the environment in contemporary society, from the excessive exploitation of natural resources to the climate strategies undertaken at a global level. Mitigation, adaptation and sustainability are the keys to saving our planet from environmental catastrophe.
Credits: Cesare Griner, Domenico Di Micco, Antonio Campanale. Border Radio is
a copyleft, independent and non-commercial web radio, born in Turin in 2009.
www.border-radio.it

But how is it really on the planet? And who, day after day, really does something to study it, understand it, help it? “Bello Mondo” goes in search of these answers, giving voice to those who dedicate competence and passion to the Earth. In each episode, the popularizer Federico Taddia and the climatologist Elisa Palazzi meet the scientific excellences involved in analyzing, understanding and combating global warming. Researchers who try to offer, each in their own field, a contribution and a piece in the name of sustainability. For a new, engaging and enveloping narrative around the state of health of "Bello Mondo".

Credits: Federico Taddia, middle chora for Spotify, 2022

From the hundreds of thousands of young people in the streets and the hopes for a green revolution to
to absolute silence after the pandemic. In the time of coronavirus, we risk forgetting ourselves
of climate change?
Credits: Matteo Villa, Francesco Rocchetti, ISPI - Institute for International Political Studies, 2020

“The last drop – Journey along the Po” is a podcast by Chora Media promoted by the Hera Group.

Credits: Francesca Milano, middle chora, 2022

Metallaria is a podcast that talks about the air we breathe every day. Heavy, polluted air that kills over eight million people around the world every year. Air pollution is one of the most serious consequences of human impact on the environment. In particular, in the Po Valley, where you breathe the most polluted air in Europe. Guido Brera with guest J-Ax, together with experts in the field of science and medicine, tell us the causes and effects of air pollution. What has been done, what we are doing, and what we will have to do to guarantee those who come after us better air than the one we breathe today. A podcast by Guido Brera with guest J-Ax created by I Diavoli promoted by the Imation foundation.

Credits: Guido Brera, middle chora, 2021

How bad is the air pollution created by vehicles? I'm in South London talking to both the
Mayor, Sadiq Khan, and localsto talk about how deadly it's become - and how a
nine-year-old recently became the first British person to die from air pollution-related
asthma. Then I'm heading to India where sadly it's even worse.
Credits: Earthrise Studio, 2021

I'm in Cumbria to look at the devastating impact of wildfires and train with a specialist
wildfire team which isso much harder than you'd think. Plus, I'm talking to firefightersin
Cape Town, South Africa who've had to deal with unprecedented blazesthat are
threatening the future of once-vibrant communities.
Credits: Earthrise Studio, 2021

Where does all the energy we use come from? How does it get to our homes? At what point
are we in the energy transition? In this third episode we will talk about one of ours
biggest addictions: energy! Let's discover together what the main sources and forms of
energy, how the Italian distribution system works and who the main players are
international energy markets. Let's set ourselves up is a window onto the world around us
which delves into climate change, technically analyzing causes and developments
geopolitical. Let's discover together the role and importance of the environment in society
contemporary, from the excessive exploitation of natural resources to climate strategies
undertaken globally. Mitigation, adaptation and sustainability are the keys to
save our planet from environmental catastrophe.
Credits: Cesare Griner, Domenico Di Micco, Antonio Campanale. Border Radio is
a copyleft, independent and non-commercial web radio, born in Turin in 2009.
www.border-radio.it

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Claudia Carani, graduated in Environmental Sciences from the University of Parma,
project manager for AESS – Agency for Energy and Sustainable Development based in
Modena has been involved in projects related to sustainable mobility and mobility for over 15 years
energy planning, energy efficiency of buildings and tools
financing to support climate mitigation and adaptation projects.
Credits: Claudia Carani, TEDx Bologna 2020, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

Do we need nuclear energy to stop climate change? More and more voices from science,
environmental activists and the press have been saying so in recent years – but this comes
as a shock to those who are fighting against nuclear energy and the problems that come
with it. I know who is right? Well - it is complicated.
Credits: kurzgesagt.org, 2021

The Ligurian Alps Regional Natural Park Authority presents the virtual classroom in this section
carried out as part of the environmental education project financed by the Region
Liguria to promote sustainable mobility initiatives (pedibus and bicibus) and reduction of
plastic consumption in schools.
Lesson contents:
1. What is sustainable mobility
2. Means of transport
3. Pollution and the greenhouse effect
4. Advantages of sustainable mobility
5. A bit of practice: examples and exercises
Credits: Ligurian Alps Park, 2020

 

Training symposium.
Credits: Bikenomist

"When we talk about climate change, it's easy to think that it only affects the environment and
not the people. Instead they are changes that have a direct impact on us:
they destabilize our societies and generate conflicts, cause migration and increase
poverty and inequalities. An increasingly hotter planet risks becoming a planet
increasingly unfair."
Credits: Video made by Oikos Institute as part of the Green School projects and
Children Stand Up, thanks to the support of the Italian Agency for Cooperation
Development and the European Climate Initiative (EUKI) of the German Federal Ministry for
Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), 2021.

How do we turn what we have discovered so far into action? What is the
role of each of us as individuals and how much is in the hands of the community? In
this part we talk about rights, responsibilities and climate justice with Elena Casetta and
Emilio Corriero, creators and teachers of the Environment and Ethics course at the University of Turin, e
with Cristina Poncibò, jurist and professor of animal welfare and rights at the University of
Turin. Maria Grazia Ieva of The Climate Route tells us a story from the Balkans.
Credits: FRida UniTo - From climate to bottom podcast, 2021

There are more and more places on our planet where climate change is unleashing
tensions and conflicts between states or communities: for example between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan where there
brings Filippo Michieli of The Climate Route. In these contexts cooperation
international plays a fundamental role in promoting peace, but each of us is
called to build a better future. Exceptional guests in this last part of the
our company: Grammenos Mastrojeni, Deputy Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean; Beatrice Surano of Rumenta Girls and Veronica Miglio alias Verde
Imperfect.
Credits: FRida UniTo - From climate to bottom podcast, 2021

Forget what you thought you knew about the ecological transition. Scientists and activists
all they do is tell us to "save the world." But are they really right? We'll tell you about it
the different futures we might experience, and why they are different from what you expect. Short but
intense journey into everything you thought was true about the ecological transition and that,
however, it is false.
Credits: Lorenzo Tecleme, TEDx ViaCavour 2022, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

Pablo Trincia takes us to the megalopolis of Mumbai, India, where it is predicted that by 2050 several neighborhoods will be flooded due to rising sea levels. The result is a journey through time that is also sonorous, immersive, dystopian, in which Pablo guides us through two cities: today's, plagued by overpopulation, and tomorrow's, where the consequences of climate change will be even more evident. Megalopolis - Mumbai, 2050 is an Original Spotify Podcast produced by Chora Media.

Credits: Pablo Trincia, middle chora for Spotify, 2022

Episode four of The Breakdown looks at the intersection between racism and climate
change, highlighting how climate change is first and foremost a social justice issue. Looking
forward the episode explores the role of the Green New Deal as part of a just and fair
transition.
Credits: Earthrise Studio, 2021

In 2015, Pope Francis wrote Laudato si', an encyclical letter on the crisis
environmental, addressed to each person in the world. A few years later, four voices
left unheard in global conversations have been invited to a dialogue without
precedents with the Pope. Coming from Senegal, the Amazon, India and Hawaii,
bring the perspective and solutions of the poor, indigenous people, youth and nature into
a conversation with Pope Francis himself. This documentary follows their journey
in Rome and the extraordinary experiences that took place there, and it is full of moving things
personal stories and the latest information on the planetary crisis and the problems suffered by it
nature and people.
Credits: produced by Off the Fence and Laudato Si' Movement, 2022
(https://theletterfilm.org/)

Associate Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the Faculty of
Political Sciences of Bologna, where Rodolfo teaches the course on Participatory Democracy
In October 2008 Lewanski was appointed Guarantor Authority for the Participation of
Tuscany by the Regional Council. He mainly deals with environmental policies,
environmental conflict management, deliberative democracy and sustainable development, public
administration, road safety policy, topics on which he has published numerous
jobs.
Credits: Rodolfo Lewanski, TEDx Bologna 2016, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

Nicola Cerantola has been carrying out a critical circular economy project for years
the model of linearity economics that can no longer work. Man is the only being
living being that destroys the environment in which it lives because it believes that "the more you have, the more you are". But this
It is not true!! We need to ask nature for help, where everything is already perfect. Make a
new production model is possible and the solutions and technologies exist. Enough
achieve greater awareness of social values ​​and change our relationship
with the environment - and maybe, meet a sea turtle.
Credits: Nicola Cerantola, TEDxBassanoDelGrappa 2022, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

How are electronic devices recycled? In this new video of "RifiUTILE - How to recycle" we will talk about WEEE, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE in English), and how they are disposed of.

Credits: Geopop, 2021

  • In circulation - The challenges of the energy transition > LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

“Incircle” is a podcast in five episodes of around 20 minutes that starts from a challenge: to talk about green chemistry and, in particular, the opportunity of upcycling and circular districts, to really make people understand what it is and why it is something that concerns everyone. “In circle” is a traveling journey that brings together the voices of scientists, economists, professionals, ordinary citizens and which aims to explain how research, technology and commitment to finding solutions driven by innovation can make the difference in the context of the energy transition.

Credits: Filippo Solibello, middle chora, 2022

In 1972, the mathematician and meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz explained how the flapping of a butterfly's wings in Brazil could generate a tornado in Texas. Thus was born one of the most fascinating theories of meteorology, the so-called "butterfly effect", which even today lends itself to being a perfect metaphor to show how even the most banal of daily gestures can contribute to the manifestation of phenomena and events with a great social impact and environmental. This is the key to understanding "Butterfly Effect", the podcast by Chora Media for Erion WEEE, the Consortium of the Erion System dedicated to the management of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, which talks about the possibilities and services available to us when it comes to conferring broken or unused electrical or electronic appliances. In each of the four episodes that make up the series, Serena Giacomin, atmospheric physicist, climatologist and president of the Italian Climate Network, addresses and explores a topic linked to the world of WEEE. Thanks to the contribution of experts from this world, the podcast clarifies the value of electronic waste, and the different paths - more or less virtuous - that these devices can take. We give the direction, with our daily choices, which however apparently simple, like the flapping of a butterfly's wings, can influence the geopolitical balance and the future of the environment, the economy and society.

Credits: Serena Giacomin, middle chora, 2022

Because simple actions, summarized in five R's (recycle, reduce, reuse, recover, regenerate), are within everyone's reach and can really make a difference. For this reason, we asked Paola Maugeri to tell you about them, because the example is the best way to demonstrate that every small change counts. R Stories is a Chora podcast series promoted by the Hera Group.

Credits: Paola Maugeri, middle chora, 2021

What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like? "Like a donut,"
says Oxford economist Kate Raworth. In a stellar, eye-opening talk, she explains how we
can move countries out of the hole -- where people are falling short on life's essentials -- and
create regenerative, distributive economies that work within the planet's ecological limits.
Credits: Kate Raworth, TEDx 2018, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

The Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS) was born on 3 February 2016 to
raise awareness in society, economic subjects and institutions
of the importance of the 2030 Agenda for the future of Italy and to spread the
culture of sustainability. The Alliance currently brings together over 300 members
major civil society institutions and networks, which have made over 600 available
experts to contribute to the activities of ASviS."

"Climate change and international objectives: where are we at? In this first episode we will try to understand what the main climate agreements and the policies adopted are
internationally to address a planet that is burning."
Credits: Cesare Griner, Domenico Di Micco, Antonio Campanale. Border Radio is
a copyleft, independent and non-commercial web radio, born in Turin in 2009.
www.border-radio.it

Sometimes you may need to educate yourself on what is happening in the world right now. For this reason you will find here some newsletters, radio broadcasts and information websites through which you can stay updated on the latest news from the world on climate change.

Credits: Italy That Changes

Credits: Tommaso Perrone, Lifegate

Areale is Tomorrow's newsletter on the environment edited by Ferdinando Cotugno, arriving every Saturday morning at 11:30.
Areal is our story of the climate emergency, it is a look towards the energy transition, environmental policies, our complicated relationship with nature and biodiversity. The range indicates the geographical area within which a species is distributed. It is a continuously changing space, due to the pressure of other species, geographical or climatic changes, ecological needs. Our range as humans is also put at risk by climate change. Where we will be able to live, how we will be able to live there, under what conditions: Arale will also talk about this.

Credits: Ferdinando Cotugno, Tomorrow

Environment, energy, climate, rational use of resources, sustainable mobility, energy transition. The right climate is the Radio Popolare program that talks about the local and global challenges to combat climate change and reduce our footprint on the planet.

Credits: Gianluca Ruggieri, Elena Mordiglia, Sara Milanese and Marianna Usuelli - Popular radio