Transport, the issue of emissions
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Ships, planes, trains and of course cars and trucks. The long-distance transport of goods and people is one of the biggest obstacles in the decarbonisation process. With the only exception of the railway network, which at least partially uses electricity to move and therefore can turn towards renewables, lowering emissions more and more. On the rest, instead of progress, many must be made. On June 7 in Milan, at the Green&Blue “Earth for all” Festival, we will hear what they have to say about it Pier Roberto Folgieroat the head of Fincantieri, his colleague Louis Corradi of Trenitalia and Giampiero Massolo, chairman of Mundys, the former Atlantia. A meeting, moderated by the director of Republic Maurice Molinarito take stock of what is needed to achieve the goals we have set ourselves in Europe: to cut emissions by 55% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels, and then bring them to zero in 2050.
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“Fincantieri is betting on hydrogen”, Folgiero explained to this newspaper. “Obviously the transition to large ships such as cruise ships will be gradual. In 2027 we will use it in port maneuvers in combination with a liquefied gas engine. In 2030 we will be able to combine it with a methanol engine, with a reduction of the 61% of emissions”. All this starting from the current diesel engines which are very polluting.
For trains the road is partially downhill. Already today they are twelve times more energy efficient than air transport and according to the European Environment Agency (EEA), we have a high share of electrified tracks, around 57% of the Union’s network and 70 than that of Trenitalia, with a growing share of renewable energy. In transport in general, it ranges from 34% in Sweden, to 5.6 in Greece or 10 in Italy, which is slightly below the EU average.
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Staying with renewables, he will also speak on June 7th Nicholas LanzettaItaly director of Enel, a company that under the leadership of Francesco Starace he achieved several goals, before being replaced by the current government. However, he remained optimistic: “In ten years in Italy we will be able to have 85-90% of energy from renewable sources”, he explained a few days ago at the Trento Festival of Economics.
Mundys, meanwhile, is trying to have its own emissions net-zero by 2040. In jargon they are called “scope 1” and “scope 2”, while “scope 3” refers to greenhouse gases that are a consequence of a company’s activities but do not depend on it. In the case of a motorway, for example, the vehicles traveling on it. “We have identified as many as 150 strands to reach the 2040 goal”, he told Republic Katia RivaSustainability Manager at Mundys.
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It will be interesting to hear what he will say about infrastructure David Ciferri, responsible for the mission unit for the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Pnrr). Because we will see many sectors that move at different speeds on the 7th in Milan. To open the day Roberto Battiston, essayist and former president of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). He just posted The alphabet of nature. The lesson of science to interpret reality. A valuable lesson, given how complex reality becomes when it comes to solutions for tackling the climate crisis.
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