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23 July 2021 The

agreement on climate and energy

was approved in Naples

during the second and final day of the G20 meeting. This was announced by the Minister of Ecological Transition, Roberto Cingolani. The negotiation, which led to the approval of the 'Communiqué', was very long and intense and the point that required the most attention and negotiations was that of decarbonisation, against which China, but above all India, put up the greatest resistance. Applause was raised by all the delegations present at the Royal Palace to celebrate the agreement reached. 



The approved "Communiqué" is made up of 60 articles and the agreement covers 58 points. "Out of 60 articles, two were extracted because it was not possible to find an agreement. So some points were postponed to the highest political decision levels of the G20 of the heads of state: objectively it was an excellent result", said the minister of the Ecological Transition, during the press conference at the end of the G20. 



The two points postponed to the G20 by the heads of state and government are: stay below 1.5 degrees of global warming by 2030 and eliminate coal from energy production by 2025. "The US, Europe, Japan and Canada are in favor, but four o five countries, including China, India and Russia, have said that they do not feel like giving this acceleration, even if they want to remain within the limits of the Paris Agreement ", said Cingolani who stressed that" this agreement is fundamental for paving the way for COP 26 ", the UN climate conference, COP 26, which will take place in Glasgow in November."



The main problem is on the time scale, he explained, because "some countries risk not making it economically" in a decade.



The Paris Agreement, negotiated at the Conference of the Parties (COP 21) of the Convention on Climate Change and signed by about 200 countries, aims to keep global warming well below 2 degrees and to continue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees. 



"I would have been more ambitious", Cingolani said again at the press conference, but "I think we can be absolutely happy and satisfied, we didn't have all this optimism, there seemed to be higher barriers. We got an agreement that I think is absolutely unprecedented because for for the first time, the G20 accepts that climate and energy policy are closely connected ".