"We tend to confuse meteorology and climatology". This is the phenomenon described by Serena Giacomin - climatologist, meteorologist and president of the Italian Climate Network - which occurs when weather conditions bring lower than average temperatures to our country, which often becomes an excuse used by many to deny that the planet earth is warming. rates that make it more difficult every day to mitigate the effects and reduce the intensity of climate change. On the margin Open At the Festival - Challenges of the Future, the expert explained what the most extreme scenarios await the climate system and how citizens and institutions can work together to avoid them. "It is important that the individual becomes more aware and performs effective virtuous actions towards the environment around him. What is certain, however, is that the action of an individual is an action that can have an impact when it becomes a collective action. So we have to try to make it happen. The community must then be able to take what is defined as systemic action, that is, action that comes from above and that can then enable the individual and the community to change effectively and on a large scale. Then we ask ourselves: "Whose is responsible for the change?". Each of us has this responsibility. (Antonio Di Noto)