Legambiente: "The Climate Plan is ambitious"

Legambiente: "The Climate Plan is ambitious"


"In addition to complaining, let's get to work. Let's approve and send Brussels a national energy and climate plan that is as ambitious as possible. Because, when we talk about climate, we are talking about the country's destiny: we go beyond political alignments". It bears the signature of three different governments the Plan you spoke of yesterday Stephen Ciafani, president of Legambiente. Guest at the Green&Blue Festival in Milan with Paola Mercogliano president of the Italian Society of Climatology, Matthew Leonardi national director of Ecco Climate e Francesca Salvemini, head of the technical secretariat of the Minister of the Environment Picetto Fratin. At the center of the debate, precisely the Pniec which is not just a formal deadline, but the instrument that will allow us to move from a world in which development and well-being are linked to fossil fuels to one in which "zero emissions" in 2050. With an intermediate stop in 2030.

The 2024 European elections and the climate divisions

Meanwhile, the Pniec has moved from table to table of three ministers since 2020, but June 30 is expected in Europe. And if in Italy everyone seems to agree on one point, i.e. that the ecological transition is necessary and that the world of finance and industry would never be ready for a turning point, having reached the last mile, little trace remains of this initial sprint . Political divisions, fear of other economies that could become more "aggressive" and above all an electoral deadline: the 2024 European elections put a stop to it. To the point that the climate and the objectives on the ecological transaction set by Brussels on energy, homes, cars and the circular economy have once again divided the political alignments. The centre-right says it is going too fast, the centre-left too slow.

G&B Festival 2023, the debate on the Pniec: more coherence on spending and objectives against climate change



And yesterday in the talk with the three MEPs Maria Angela Danzi of the 5 Star Movement, Charles Fidanza of Brothers of Italy and Silvia Sardone of the League, the distances were evident. “I am not a climate denier, but it cannot be just Europe, its families and companies that are taking charge of the problem. Our emissions represent 8% of the total, while the rest of the world continues to pollute and gets rich on the rules we impose on ourselves”. Clear words that leave no room for doubt and fellow Northern League Sardone is on the same wavelength. Fully deployed on the side of the ecological transition of the EU, Danzì e Alessandra Moretti of the Democratic Party which connected to the Festival from the European Parliament: "To say that we won't make it alone means not understanding how important it is for the future of the economy in Europe to change course".

On 30 June the Pniec will be in Brussels

Meanwhile, the Plan will have to arrive in Brussels in fifteen days. Between pushes and brakes. Defending the work of Minister Pichetto Fratin, his head of the technical secretariat Salvemini: "Ours is a more realistic approach than in 2019. The pandemic and the war have taught us that the scenario can change quickly, so we need to focus on a range of measures". At the moment, there are 361 climate adaptation measures contained in the Plan, many, but few of these are also included in the budget law. So they weren't funded.

"Intercepting the nodes of inertia"

"But 2030 is the last frontier to reverse course. Then the situation will be irremediable. What will be the most affected area of ​​Europe? The Mediterranean area”, said the scientist Paola Mercogliano in no uncertain terms. Seven years to go. According to Matteo Leonardi of Ecco Climate, Italians are ready to face climate change: it is there for all to see how much it is the transition not only ecological but also the economic and social one is urgent: “The Plan must intercept the knots of inertia. Prioritize and understand where it is necessary to intervene in an incisive and innovative way. The economy? To those who are reluctant to move forward, I just want to explain this scenario. What will we do when, ten years from now, we see the destructive effects of climate change on our economies? Either we are prepared for the challenge that awaits us or we are destined to become marginal”.



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