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19 September 2019
"Climate change is the key challenge of our time".
Thus begins the document signed by the head of state, Sergio Mattarella, on the occasion of the United Nations Climate Action Summit scheduled in New York on 23 September 2019.
"Our generation is the first to experience the rapid rise in temperatures around the world and probably the last to have the opportunity to effectively combat the impending global climate crisis", the text continues, which continues: " The effects of climate change are well documented and felt all over the world: the dramatic increase in heat waves, floods, droughts and mudslides, melting glaciers and rising sea levels. collected are just some of the immediate results, with devastating repercussions, such as hunger and the forced displacement of human beings ".
The signatory heads of state urge all parties "to make 2019 the year of climate ambition by coming to the United Nations Secretary-General's Climate Action Summit in September 2019 with concrete plans and initiatives to reduce gas emissions greenhouse effect significantly beyond the current targets for 2030, to the extent that these targets are not in line with those of the Paris Agreement, and to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, starting from nationally determined contributions strengthened by 'next year".
"We emphasize the importance of ensuring that all financial flows are consistent with the path to reduced greenhouse gas emissions and resilient development relative to the top, and we urge all financial institutions to align their investments with the long-term goals of the 'Paris Agreement, to intensify and expand investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy as well as to divest as soon as possible from the fossil fuel economy ", reads the text.