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09 October 2021 The President of the Senate, Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, during the final session of the parliamentary meeting of Pre-Cop 26, in Rome, in the Chamber reiterated the role of Parliaments in the battle for the climate. The document produced by this conference - said President Casellati- "clearly underlines the decisive role that Parliaments and parliamentarians can play in the implementation of the climate and environmental objectives envisaged by the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda. not only to their function of stimulating, guiding and controlling the work of national governments, but also to promoting a cooperative context at an international level, through the dissemination of good practices and effective working methods.And of course it is the legislative assemblies that must concretely implement the international commitments signed by the executives ".



The works highlighted that the fight against the climate crisis is the main global challenge of the moment.


Alessia Rotta, president of the Chamber's Environment and Territory Committee and COP26 rapporteur for the Italian Parliament, reiterated that "each of us must abandon political and national selfishness and opportunism, to embrace a mitigation and adaptation strategy based on common values responsibility, collaboration, solidarity and far-sightedness. It is the last appeal we are called to respond to, before the crisis becomes irreversible. The future of our planet is at stake ".



According to the latest data from the World Health Organization, climate change could cause about 250,000 more deaths each year from malaria, malnutrition, heat wave stress by 2030.

Data that go hand in hand with those of the World Food Program that link climate change and food insecurity on a planetary level.


Alessia Rotta underlined the "need to claim a central role for parliaments in climate action, also through the adoption of tools for analyzing the climate impact of legislation".