Sal Ippolito

Senior Advisor Consultant. International Cooperation presso ANCI Italian National Association of Municipalities

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@mrxuniverseus might be

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@Anni_24_ 17 holes

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[Presidencia Colombia 🇨🇴 @infopresidencia]

@DrMariaNeira, Directora del Departamento de Salud Pública de la OMS, explicó que no existen argumentos económicos en contra de la reducción de la contaminación del aire, ya que es posible lograrlo sin perjudicar el desarrollo económico de los países.

Asimismo, agradeció a todos los que han contribuido a este trabajo y, en especial, expresó su reconocimiento a Colombia: “Gracias a Colombia, esta realidad mágica de Cartagena nos ha contagiado. Somos muy realistas, pero queremos hacer magia ahora, así que Cartagena será nuestro punto de partida para esa realidad mágica que vamos a transformar entre todos”.

2da Conferencia Mundial de la OMS sobre Contaminación del Aire y Salud

[Presidencia Colombia 🇨🇴 @infopresidencia]

¡Colombia es el país anfitrión de la Segunda Conferencia Mundial de la OMS sobre Contaminación del Aire y Salud!

#AEstaHora el Presidente @petrogustavo hace parte de este encuentro que debate sobre los riesgos para la salud derivados de la contaminación atmosférica, los beneficios de adoptar medidas para mejorar la calidad del aire y el uso de energías limpias.

[Dr Maria Neira @DrMariaNeira]

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[Dr Maria Neira @DrMariaNeira]

Why we need cleaner air | Maria Neira | TEDxAthens https://t.co/FhydDrVW9U via @YouTube

[Bharati Chaturvedi @Bharati09]

Today, an important @WHO representative at #COP29Azerbaijan , @DrMariaNeira , held up a laptop screen in horror, showing the PM 2.5 levels in Delhi. The WHO limit is 5, Delhi is breathing 400.

Watch this video I made, half in tears, half incandescent with rage at Delhi Government.

[Diana Panchenko 🇺🇦 @Panchenko_X]

Corruption in Ukraine?

You will be shocked!!!

Watch till the end!!!

Please share.

[Sal Ippolito @aless333]

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Libya

Italy seizes cargo ship carrying weapons to Libya
Italian authorities seized a cargo ship allegedly transporting Russian weapons to General Haftar, commander of eastern Libya forces. The US provided information about the ship, suspecting that the Kremlin wanted to build

[TheSkepticalReader 🎯 @max1ci6]

🇷🇺 LA RUSSIA NON HA MAI AVUTO AMBIZIONI DI CONQUISTA IN EUROPA

I russi sono arrivati a Parigi, nel 1814, dopo però che Napoleone era arrivato a Mosca

Dopo di allora, negli ultimi 200 anni, noi italiani abbiamo invaso la Russia 3 volte... (1/4)

[Dr Maria Neira @DrMariaNeira]

#ATACH Global meeting:🖍️Action on Climate Change and Health! Tomorrow in Madrid 🇪🇸 co-organized by @FCDOGovUK @sanidadgob @AECID_es @WHO big thanks to all! 🙏@UNFCCC @COP28_UAE @COP27P @COP26 @COP29_AZ @DrTedros

[Etienne Leblanc - leblancetienne.bsky.social @leblancetienne]

« Nos systèmes de santé ne sont pas préparés aux changements climatiques ». À la #COP28, j'ai eu la chance de parler longuement avec la grande patronne du dossier climatique à l'OMS, la @DrMariaNeira. https://t.co/luRFPQUwEX

[Transición Ecológica y Reto Demográfico @mitecogob]

«No sólo están negociando los porcentajes de las emisiones, sino que están negociando sobre nuestras vidas y enfermedades»

► @DrMariaNeira, directora del Departamento de Salud Pública y Medio Ambiente de @WHO

[الاقتصادية CNN @CNNBusinessAr]

ترقبوا لقاءً حصرياً مع مديرة إدارة #البيئة وتغير #المناخ والصحة بمنظمة #الصحة العالمية الدكتورة ماريا نيرا، على هامش مؤتمر (كوب 28) على #CNN_الاقتصادية.

#العالم_بلغة_الأعمال #كوب28 #COP28 #COP28UAE #الإمارات
@DrMariaNeira

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

LIVE from #COP28 with @DrTedros: Putting Health at the Heart of the Climate Agenda https://t.co/ZnjnkN05ng

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Another masterful interview on Gaza of Dominique De Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, who IMHO is the best diplomat the West has produced in decades.

Again I believe that his words are so important and so rare among Western leaders today, that I decided to translate it in full (the bold parts are emphasis Villepin himself made when speaking):

"The Israeli government, Benjamin Netanyahu, failed on October 7th and failed doubly. Firstly, in its ability to ensure the protection of the Israeli people by allowing massacres that are an abomination to occur. He bears direct responsibility for what happened. And his second failure is having encouraged a policy of occupation and colonization, which continues at this moment in the West Bank and constitutes another threat to Israel if a second front in the West Bank were to open.

Force does not ensure the security of a people! This is what all Israelis must understand today. And what is important is that since October 7th, the Israeli government's choice has been to escalate the use of force. You know, neither force nor vengeance ensures peace and security. What ensures peace and security is justice! And justice is not being served today.

The rationale of the Israeli government for the bombings happening today is flawed, and the whole international community can see it. The principle is: "we target terrorists, and unfortunately, there are also civilian populations," what is euphemistically called in military language "collateral damage." It must be understood that this collateral damage is not accidental. That is to say, it is perfectly predictable and fully accepted.

[Host: "But once again, the responsibility is not solely Israeli."]

But once more, let's stop asking about responsibility; let's look at the reality of what's happening on the ground! Assigning fault, allow me to tell you, we will leave to historians. What we want is to stop this violence, to stop these massacres. Israel is putting itself in danger, even more today, with this type of warfare and these types of strikes.

We are essentially dealing with a policy of vengeance from the Netanyahu government. Israel has the right to self-defense, but self-defense does not give an indiscriminate right to kill civilian populations. When you target an ambulance, you can always imagine that there was a terrorist in one of the ambulances, or not. But the result is that there are children, women who die. Every child, every woman killed, that's more terrorists. Therefore, Israel's objective, what Israel achieves, is exactly the opposite of what they wish. So, it is essential today to change this logic and return to a strategy that is sound.

Hostages, everything must be done to secure their release. But let's not forget: the Palestinian people are also taken hostage, by Hamas and by Israel. And Hamas, we all know, cares little for the Palestinian people. So telling Hamas: "we will not lift the siege, we will not have a humanitarian truce until the hostages are released," is a dialogue of the deaf.

Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war to do everything so that the political solution does not come to the table. And this is where the international community, Europe, the United States, must tell Benjamin Netanyahu that this war is not acceptable. It is not acceptable because it leads us directly [to escalation] - because we can see it well, from Hamas we will move to Iran, from Iran we will move to other targets, and we then enter into the logic of a clash of civilizations. When Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu says that on one side there is the people of light and on the other the people of darkness, we can see the kind of spiral we are getting into.

All the wars that have been going on for the past twenty years are wars that begin and do not end. These are frozen conflicts. We know how to start a war; we do not know how to end it. And Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu could control Gaza, it would change nothing. There will continue to be terrorist attacks, Israelis will continue to live in fear. We must get out of this. The second reason why this is yesterday's war is that the war against terrorism has never been won anywhere. Force is not the answer, once again. Vengeance is not the answer. The answer is justice, and that is what all the peoples of the world, all those who today watch what is happening, call for justice.

Today the direction we must follow is to prevent Benjamin Netanyahu from continuing his suicidal logic that will make Israel a besieged state. They can besiege Gaza, but they will be besieged. And do not think that tomorrow we will again have a pacified discourse with Saudi Arabia, with the Arab states that will normalize the situation: no! The wounds of history are awakening.

Israel's interest is to have a responsible state at its side. And this responsible state, let's stop splitting hairs, must clearly be the West Bank, all of the West Bank. It must be Gaza, with access between the two territories, and East Jerusalem. The problem, and this is the whole point of Benjamin Netanyahu's escalation, is that Benjamin Netanyahu does not want it. And the policy of separation must be dignified. That is, it must confer to the Palestinians a state where they can live, a viable state, a true state, which can build itself and which will be all the more at peace...

[Host: "Does that mean that the settlements in the West Bank have to be removed?"]

Well, when we left Algeria, there were a million French who left Algeria. Today there are 500,000 Israelis colonizing the West Bank, and there are 200,000 in East Jerusalem.

[Host: "They must leave the West Bank?"]

Yes. Yes, that is history, that is responsibility, that is the price! I tell you solemnly, it is the price of security for Israel! And all those who today consider that it will never be enough are pursuing the worst policy."

Credit to @caissesdegreve who took these extracts from the original interview which can be found here: https://t.co/hRuGw6CbuA