Cingolani: "Five years to set up the ecological transition"

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July 21, 2021 "We have five years to set up a marathon, that of the ecological transition, which will end by 2050. It is a challenging path". This was stated by Roberto Cingolani, Minister of Ecological Transition, speaking at the second Pre-Agora organized by the Democratic Party, in Dumbo, Bologna, where the environment and eco-sustainability are discussed above all.

"There is no plan B: it will take a lot of effort and great skill in the execution of the program - continued Cingolani -. We hope to be able to keep our time schedule, remembering the fact that this concerns our young people. commitment to be able to make this transition, which is a social, manufacturing, transport and cultural change, the one in which we will have to invest the most ".

"We must make an enormous effort in the creation of renewable sources - also recalled Cingolani -. We know that we must install 70 billion watts in renewable plants such as wind and solar in the next 10 years. It means an enormous effort unprecedented in recent history. At the same time we must give everyone the possibility to adapt, to absorb the change. And we must do it at the same time as the infrastructural change of everything we have: there is no ecological transition without industrial transition. the compromise is not easy. We have to make big corrections but these they must also be sustainable in the interest of future generations ". 

Meanwhile, the G20 Environment, the meeting of the environment ministers of the 20 countries, opens at the Royal Palace of Naples. First day dedicated to the protection of the environment, while on the 23rd the protagonists will be Climate and Energy. For the first time, environment and energy are united in a G20, and the reason is the climate crisis.   

With the advance of global warming, environmental policies can no longer be just protection, but must also concern investments in energy, to decarbonise the economy, moving from fossil sources to renewable sources. In France and then in Italy this change of perspective was sanctioned by the transfer of competences on energy to the Ministry of the Environment, renamed the Ministry of Ecological Transition. Naples is also the first G20 that sees the circular economy as the protagonist, that is, the economy based on the recycling of resources and not on their massive consumption. The works at Palazzo Reale will be opened tomorrow at 10 by the Minister of Ecological Transition, Roberto Cingolani.

The delegations are working to produce, at the end of each day, a communiqué shared between the twenty countries. At the end of the two days, Friday 23 July, around 5 pm, the final press conference is scheduled, which will be broadcast in streaming. At the G20 Ambiente in Naples "we have chosen to let ambition prevail and to work incessantly on a common document among all - comments Minister Cingolani in a note - We know well that the ecological transition is not a gala dinner, but we do not have alternatives than working together in one direction, without leaving anyone behind ". 

And in Naples there will also be the antagonists. The meeting of the ministers of the environment falls at 20 years of the G8 in Genoa and the killing, during the clashes with the police, of Carlo Giuliani. It is not yet known how many militants will be able to bring to Naples, but Security has taken the "swarm of protests" announced on social networks very seriously and has obtained the cancellation of the final gala dinner of the summit reserved for the 50 participating delegations, scheduled for Friday at Castel Sant'Elmo, on the Vomero hill.