Biodiversity will have to become an Italian excellence. In the European panorama, the country has to make up for many delays in terms of land, energy, controlled agriculture, certified supply chains. As with other strategic choices included in the ecological transition, the government has decided to submit its biodiversity plan to a public consultation. Since the final objective remains fixed at 2030 with investments from both the PNRR and the Community agricultural policy, it is useful to have broad political and economic sharing. Thus reasoned the Ministry of Ecological Transition which launched the consultation until 22 May. Observations and contributions must be sent using a specific form to be sent to PNM@Pec.Mite.Gov.it .
On the plan the effects of the war
The Italian plan started last year and over time it has been adapted to the European indications resulting in the European Strategy for Biodiversity. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the macroeconomic scenarios, the supply of raw materials and the difficulties in key sectors have changed rapidly. Therefore, the effort to predict how we will arrive at 2030 and with which actors appears realistic.
It will have to emerge from the consultation a vision of the future and development centered on the need to “reverse the current trend of biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse at a global level”. The high objectives involve central sectors of the Italian economy and of research where biodiversity has also become a challenge between brains and laboratories. Roberto Cingolani believes that the final assessment of the past Strategy 2020 and the indications contained in the Report on the State of Natural Capital are a good basis for bringing Italy to levels of greater efficiency. "The new National Strategy - explains the Ministry - provides for the identification of a series of specific objectives which represent the declination on a national scale of the European priorities and the commitments defined at an international level".
The need for unified political decisions.
The sampling in which to invest is really wide: from protected areas, to the protection of the forest heritage, to the care and management of water, to the sea. There will be specific multiannual actions and process indicators in order not to lose the path and the bureaucracy will have to be very marginal. Just as it is unthinkable to separate all of this from an agricultural world that has so many treasures but just as many differences of territory and traditions.
Farms for their part are asking at various levels to integrate interventions, pushing the other major European option Farm to fork strategy. Where climate change affects natural activities, crops, with economic losses and decreasing employment, the answer lies in achieving sustainable development, without wasting energy, in building challenging forms of circular economy and territorial planning.
Pieces of non-polluting industry will have to be part of the game. The process of defining and implementing the National Biodiversity Strategy therefore requires a multidisciplinary approach and strong sharing e collaboration between policy makers and central and regional administrations, says Cingolani. Which, in the meantime, is also thinking about strengthening the governance bodies of the plan, starting with the State-Regions Conference. To go all in one direction.
