The flood in Emilia Romagna was faster than the state. Much faster than bureaucracy and studies to prevent disasters or, at least, limit the damage. Italy has been without a climate plan for some time, although I am within June 2024 an organic, integrated text to tackle climate change must be delivered to the European Commission: it is called Pniec. The drafts have been circulating for years among the Ministries to reach the final draft. The latest one is from 2020, it contains 5 macro areas, from decarbonisation, research, territorial effects, innovation and competitiveness. But it's like a pack of white paper. Why? Because the energy and greenhouse gas reduction targets set out in the document do not meet European standards. In theory the Plan contains more than 350 shares to put on the ground, as they say today. In practice, none have been launched. For example, there is talk of renewable energy to reduce climate-changing emissions. For the EU, by 2030 they must be reduced by 55%. Those in Italy at the end of 2021 had only fallen by 20%. In the next seven years, therefore, a miracle must be performed to reach 55%. Meanwhile, private individuals move more than public authorities by investing their own money.
The planet shows its wounds
Professor Antonello Pasini ininterview at FIRSTonline the other day he reminded us how greenhouse gases have significant effects on tragedies such as the one in Emilia Romagna. " Must limit greenhouse gas emissions to avoid even worse situations,” he said. And except for a few dissenting voices in these convulsive days, technicians and scientists all converge on a point that we could summarize as the sick planet showing its wounds. For the Premio Nobel George Parisi at the point where we are- today, tomorrow who knows- there is a need for a Piano world against climate change. A global strategy that also involves India and China, which in order to maintain their respective GDPs do not take care of the environment. Prof Parisi knows very well that while he hopes for a world plan, his country is unable to go beyond drafts and botched documents. Indeed, to be honest the Minister of the Environment Gilberto Pichetto Fratin he explained that in Emilia Romagna there was an extreme event that with climate change due to global warming can be repeated”. In other words, the Minister is aware that updating the Pniec is an absolute priority which can help not die from high water, mud and landslides. The tragic thing is that in front of the dead (we hope they are really the last ones) we only have papers, electoral programmes, emergency commissioners and unspent money in our hands. It is Pichetto himself who points out that of 126 billion of European funds 2014-2019 due to hydrogeological instability, the final expenditure was just 34%. Okay, he wasn't there, but now he is. In the Pniec to be reviewed it is written that "due attention will be paid to ensuring compatibility between the energy and climate objectives and the landscape protection objectives, quality of air and water bodies, safeguarding biodiversity and soil protection. The interventions necessary for the growing decarbonisation of the system require plants and infrastructures that can have environmental impacts". It was written to the Ministry. So ? cin vain they say.
The climate plan is rapid and concrete
Emilia Romagna has 15% of the highly dangerous territory. These are numbers that always come out after disasters. Whether they were announced or not, we have been repeating it for 30 years, observing a country that is collapsing and that the center-right governs in an approximate and confused way. Patriotic rhetoric does not secure its citizens. Alas, the left is not without fault in this. After what we are seeing between Bologna and the Adriatic coast, one wonders what is it for a Ministry of the Environment managed in this way if seven months after the change of owner there is no news of a work surface (even minimal) to prevent environmental emergencies? If this plan exists (in addition to the phony draft of the Pniec) it will be made public and it will be noted. It would be all too easy and harsh to doubt the Minister's abilities and it would not lead to anything good. Also because before him there were those who were not afraid to do worse, canceling emergency structures only because they were created by "enemy" leaders. The point is that as soon as possible the government of Giorgia Meloni in its entirety and Minister Pichetto Fratin in his precise responsibility, establish priorities, times and work to be done, the better for everyone. The only thing the Ministry of the Environment has done on the Pniec, is the questionnaire online to collect opinions and indications from citizens, businesses, associations. The questionnaire expires May 26, but after that there is another year for the final draft and to present it in Brussels in June 2024. If you bring it first, they certainly won't send it back, after the devastation of the Marches, Ischia, Emilia Romagna before and second flood. The center-right in its electoral program had identified the protection of the territory as the first intervention to be carried out and had arrived at the government of the country. Lastly, the impact of climate change reminds us of the events in Emilia Romagna explained Minister Pichetto Fratin at a conference on energy security. “ The goal – she added – is global, we are not interested in being one best practice. Either we all achieve the result or the consequences are before us”. Unfortunately, no best practices have been seen in seven months. And although there was an exceptional event in Emilia-Romagna, the nation so celebrated by the premier mourns other innocent victims.
Emilia Romagna has 15% of the highly dangerous territory. These are numbers that always come out after disasters. Whether they were announced or not, we have been repeating it for 30 years, observing a country that is collapsing and that the center-right governs in an approximate and confused way. Patriotic rhetoric does not secure its citizens. Alas, the left is not without fault in this. After what we are seeing between Bologna and the Adriatic coast, one wonders what is it for a Ministry of the Environment managed in this way if seven months after the change of owner there is no news of a work surface (even minimal) to prevent environmental emergencies? If this plan exists (in addition to the phony draft of the Pniec) it will be made public and it will be noted. It would be all too easy and harsh to doubt the Minister's abilities and it would not lead to anything good. Also because before him there were those who were not afraid to do worse, canceling emergency structures only because they were created by "enemy" leaders. The point is that as soon as possible the government of Giorgia Meloni in its entirety and Minister Pichetto Fratin in his precise responsibility, establish priorities, times and work to be done, the better for everyone. The only thing the Ministry of the Environment has done on the Pniec, is the questionnaire online to collect opinions and indications from citizens, businesses, associations. The questionnaire expires May 26, but after that there is another year for the final draft and to present it in Brussels in June 2024. If you bring it first, they certainly won't send it back, after the devastation of the Marches, Ischia, Emilia Romagna before and second flood. The center-right in its electoral program had identified the protection of the territory as the first intervention to be carried out and had arrived at the government of the country. Lastly, the impact of climate change reminds us of the events in Emilia Romagna explained Minister Pichetto Fratin at a conference on energy security. “ The goal – she added – is global, we are not interested in being one best practice. Either we all achieve the result or the consequences are before us”. Unfortunately, no best practices have been seen in seven months. And although there was an exceptional event in Emilia-Romagna, the nation so celebrated by the premier mourns other innocent victims.
