Greta Thunberg has shaken consciences, but the green revolution is not around the corner at all. International energy agencies do not give up in denouncing the "slow progress" of states in the fight against climate change. The latest report by the IEA (International Energy Agency) tells of 33 gigatonnes of CO2 released into the atmosphere in 2019. Values very similar to those of 2018, although the world economy grew by 2,9% last year. A development trend that should have caused higher polluting emissions due to the large consumption of fossil energies, reads the document.
In the USA, despite Donald Trump explaining his country's economic growth with the extensive use of traditional energies, in many states renewables have entered the production processes. On a national basis, the US recorded a decrease of 140 million tons of CO2. Numbers that testify to the enlargement of the federal production base which uses wind and photovoltaic energy.
2019 will be remembered as the year of the CO2 peak and the tables in the IEA report also relate it to the favorable climatic trend in many countries. In the background, however, remain the disappointments for the last two international appointments that could have marked a turning point in the fight against climate changei: the UN conference in Madrid and the disappointing outcome of the Word Economic Focus in Davos. The IEA is building a grand coalition focused on reducing emissions with governments, companies, investors, said Fatih Birol, director of the IEA. The technologies are there, you have to measure the will.
It's Italy? The country is waiting to see the many measures announced by the government in its green plan implemented. Our energy companies are far ahead in investments and programs with respect to politics. The industrial approach to renewables and the deconstruction of old production systems has been going on for years.
Ideological environmentalist visions with the blocking or slowdown of infrastructures necessary for our economy have conditioned the timing of the transition and the mix of sources. The IEA has announced that in June it will publish a special report on the World Energy Outlook, while in July there will be a summit on Clean Energy Transitions in Paris. Very useful months for the Italian government – will it still be the Conte bis? – to present positive data and tables and finally see Italy among the countries most committed to climate protection.
