Co2 emissions decreased by 35% in 2 months, as well as target 10 years. Boom risk in 2021
2020-04-24T12:19:13.643Z
Collapse of CO2 in Italy due to the lockdown effect. In just two months, emissions have reached -35%. Reality very close to what should be the cut to be achieved in a decade to achieve the objectives of Paris. These are the data of the dossier 'Effects of the lockdown on CO2 emissions in Italy, the first economic analysis' of Italy for Climate, an alliance for the climate among Italian green economy companies. But, the dossier warns, without extraordinary measures for a green recovery, it will be a boom in emissions in 2021. In these months of March and April alone, it is noted in the dossier created by the Italy for Climate alliance, over 20 million tons of CO2 less than the previous year. A decline that, he reiterates, "is not structural, however, and at the end of the pandemic there is the risk that unprecedented growth will trigger, which will increasingly push Italy away from the targets of the Paris Agreement". "In order to be in line with Paris - said Edo Ronchi, president of the Foundation for sustainable development - policies and measures will have to be put in place to guarantee levels of CO2 emissions comparable to those of the last few weeks. A titanic effort , necessary to avoid another major crisis, the climatic one, also because history teaches that after an economic crisis and a drop in emissions, these could start growing even more than before ". In particular, the analysis of these two months of restrictive measures to combat the emergency from Covid-19, indicates that March was a 'hybrid' month since the lockdown was activated, in fact, gradually and this graduality shows it the data: for example, electricity consumption for the week of 9-15 March decreased by 5.8% compared to the same week of 2019 and, in the week from 23 to 29 March when the restrictive measures were now fully operational, by 21.1%. Overall, in March, energy consumption decreased by 15.9% compared to the same month in 2019 and CO2 emissions by 17% (5.7 million tons of CO2), three quarters of this drop are due to the contraction of the transport sector. In fact, CO2 emissions related to mobility decreased by almost 4.5 million tons of CO2, the drop in diesel consumption is responsible for 60% of this drop. In April, electricity consumption in the first three weeks stabilized at around -23% compared to the same period of 2019. Oil consumption dropped by around 70% and equally emissions: only in the transport sector, an estimated 7 million tons of Co2 less than the previous year.
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24 April 2020Co2 collapse in Italy due to the lockdown effect. In just two months, emissions have reached -35%. Reality very close to what should be the cut to be achieved in a decade to achieve the objectives of Paris. These are the data of the dossier 'Effects of the lockdown on CO2 emissions in Italy, the first economic analysis' of Italy for Climate, an alliance for the climate among Italian green economy companies. But, the dossier warns, without extraordinary measures for a green recovery, it will be a boom in emissions in 2021. In these months of March and April alone, it is noted in the dossier created by the Italy for Climate alliance, over 20 million tons of CO2 less than the previous year. A drop that, he reiterates, "is not structural, however, and at the end of the pandemic there is the risk that unprecedented growth will trigger, which will increasingly push Italy away from the targets of the Paris Agreement". "In order to be in line with Paris - said Edo Ronchi, president of the Foundation for sustainable development - policies and measures will have to be put in place to guarantee levels of CO2 emissions comparable to those of the last few weeks. A titanic effort , necessary to avoid another major crisis, the climatic one, also because history teaches that after an economic crisis and a drop in emissions, these could start growing even more than before ". In particular, the analysis of these two months of restrictive measures to combat the emergency from Covid-19, indicates that March was a 'hybrid' month since the lockdown was activated, in fact, gradually and this graduality shows it the data: for example, electricity consumption for the week of 9-15 March decreased by 5.8% compared to the same week of 2019 and, in the week from 23 to 29 March when the restrictive measures were now fully operational, by 21.1%. Overall, in March, energy consumption decreased by 15.9% compared to the same month in 2019 and CO2 emissions by 17% (5.7 million tons of CO2), three quarters of this drop are due to the contraction of the transport sector. In fact, CO2 emissions related to mobility decreased by almost 4.5 million tons of CO2, the drop in diesel consumption is responsible for 60% of this drop. In April, electricity consumption in the first three weeks stabilized at around -23% compared to the same period of 2019. Oil consumption dropped by around 70% and equally emissions: only in the transport sector, an estimated 7 million tons of Co2 less than the previous year.
