A novembre si terrà la COP26, ma come funzionano i negoziati climatici? Come si organizzano le sessioni negoziali? Le decisioni che vengono prese sono vincolanti e, se sì, per tutti i paesi? Con Federico Brocchieri, esperto di negoziati climatici, abbiamo parlato di questo, dell'importanza degli incontri informali, del modo in cui i paesi sono tenuti a rispettare gli accordi presi e di molto altro.
Comparing the Covid-19 pandemic with two pandemics from literature: “The White Plague” by Frank Herbert and “Station 11” by Emily St. John Mandel
Epidemics is an often recurring theme in world literature, where authors share with us their realistic and unrealistic version of them. I recently read two books with global plagues in them: “The White Plague” by Herbert (1982) and “Station 11” by St. John Mandel (2014). These books came to mind at the outbreak of the new coronavirus epidemics, and I was reminded of the traits of their own epidemics and how puzzled they had left me. I will not compare these three diseases scientifically, as that would be impossible.
