Gabriele Crescente is Europe and environment editor at Italian weekly Internazionale.

Previously he edited the op-ed section and worked at the multilingual European news site Presseurop. He is the author of Storia mondiale del lockdown (Laterza 2022). His main focus is on the climate and environmental crisis and the energy transition.

Languages: Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese

Gabriele Crescente

Basic information

Name
Gabriele Crescente
Title
Editor
Expertise
Climate crisis, environment, European affairs, strategic issues
Country
Italy
City
Roma

Mentor for

(Mis)Managing Water

  • Climate
  • Corruption
  • Environment

ITALY/SPAIN - Both countries are considered to be under high water stress, but while a recent drought that hit Italy has mostly subsided, water scarcity is ravaging Catalonia, in northeastern Spain, laying bare the unpreparedness of water infrastructure to deal with such a traumatic manifestation of climate change.

Cecilia Butini

Adapting or Failing? Europe's local response to climate change

  • Cities
  • Climate

BRUSSELS - In this investigation, a diverse group of journalists analysed climate risk reports, academic literature and EU strategies for climate adaption to grasp the current state of adaptation in Europe. They also looked at local climate adaptation in Oradea, Romania, Loulé, Portugal and Rostock, Germany to see what local circumstances hinder or encourage good climate adaptation practice.

Adapting or Failing?

Behind The Flames: Wildfires in Turkey and Italy

  • Climate
  • Environment

IZMIR / CATANIA – Forest wildfires have increased in size and impact. Every year, 375,000 hectares of land in Mediterranean countries are scorched. Journalists tried to identify the main factors that lead to these disasters, which treaten entire ecosystems.

Climate Change and Mismanagement Deplete Water Reserves in Europe

  • Environment

BARUTH / ORTONA / TÂRGU NEAMȚ - Across Europe, communities are facing a water crisis fueled by decades of poor groundwater management and climate change. This investigation examines the causes and consequences of water scarcity related to groundwater reserves in three of the most affected EU countries: Italy, Germany, and Romania.

Climate, COPs, NAPs... and Africa

  • Climate
  • Environment

ACCRA — Africa produces less than 4% of the greenhouse gases that are thought to lead to climate change, and yet continental Africa is expected to be the most affected by climate change.

Emerging Energy Cooperatives: Bright Future or Great Failure?

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Environment

WARSAW - Dreams of growing megawatts like tomatoes on a windowsill. Will energy cooperatives give power to the people?

Silviu Matei

Just Transition: Mission Impossible?

  • Cities
  • Energy
  • Environment

PETROSANI - The Just Transition Mechanism promised Europe's coal regions that their communities would not be left behind as coal-intensive industries close. This team of journalists investigates what's happening in the coal regions of Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania and Bulgaria.

Former Petrila coal mine

Thirsty Europe: How Communities Cope with Increasing Droughts

  • Cities
  • Climate
  • Environment

TYROL - As a result of climate change, droughts are on the rise in Europe and local and national governments are preparing for increasingly dry years. 

Teseo LaMarca