• Climate, Conte: "We must act now to save the planet"

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12 December 2020 "The decisive battle is today's, the battle of ideas of those who want to hand over to future generations a different world, a better world, and I am sure that in this great challenge we will be side by side, to work together on the same side ".

Premier Giuseppe Conte says this in his speech at the Equologica event, an online assembly of the ecological left. 



"2021 year of challenges: environment, health, empowerment women at the top of the agenda"

  Equologica is "a yard of ideas in which people think aloud, the place where words like social justice, equity, ecological transition, environmental protection, sustainability, dignity of work and right to health find asylum. as you know, the government is at the top of the agenda with which our country presents itself to the challenge of the new year ", adds Conte.

"2021 is a complex year of challenges, we will chair the G20, we will host the Global Health Summit, we will work in partnership with the United Kingdom for COP25 for climate change. And just yesterday in Brussels we reached, I want to remember, the agreement to the European Council on the Green Deal with which we are committed to reducing emissions by 55% to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Our country is in the lead group, we must not lose this record ", he underlines.

"The theme of female empowerment will also be central to the G20, as I have repeated several times." 



Recovery Plan is not a slogan but a political agenda 

The points of the Recovery Plan "are not electoral slogans" but "a precise political agenda", underlines Conte.

"My action has always been oriented to the commitment to reduce the gap of social inequalities, to the creation of a network of solidarity for the inclusion of all".



Watershed

pandemic, reforming

vision is needed for rebirth

There is a "need to equip the country with a broad, structural, reforming vision. The pandemic represents a watershed, it has underlined the limits of our systems of life, it has highlighted the worsening of disparities. socioeconomic, he evoked the need to completely rethink development models, forced us all to assume the responsibility not to return to yesterday's normality but to lay the foundations for a new beginning, for a cultural, social, political and economic rebirth ", says the Prime Minister to Equologica.



Strong those who do not give in to pessimism, look for solutions

"There is one thing that this emergency reminds us every day: the strength of the people who work in the same direction. We have seen it in moments of difficulty when the country has made a great commitment We still see it today, in those who roll up their sleeves to start again. In those who do not give in to frustration and pessimism. In those who do not tire of looking for solutions to get back on the road ", says the premier.