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October 31, 2021 "The G20 was a success, but it was not easy to reach this agreement". Prime Minister Mario Draghi is directed at the final press conference of the G20 in Rome, in his judgment on the summit that has just ended.

"We must be especially grateful to the Sherpas, who worked on the texts which were then approved." Those of "Covid, climate, health, inequalities" are "epochal and existential challenges" that we face or have faced. "We realized that without cooperating you will not get anywhere. The form of cooperation that we feel most akin to is

, this is because there are rules. Some rules must be changed, but it must be done together".

" For the first time, the G20 countries have pledged to maintain the goal of

with a series of actions. For the first time, all the G20 countries recognize the scientific validity of the need to keep warming at 1.5 degrees and commit themselves with meaningful enough language to achieve or at least not lose sight of this goal. 

"" We have laid the foundations for a fairer recovery and found new ways to support countries in the world, 609 billion on the basis of special drawing rights are dedicated for the first time to the most vulnerable countries ".

"We are proud of this result, but we are only at the beginning, we need stronger action than we have done so far". "We have managed to keep our dreams alive, commit to further measures, gigantic allocations, further promises of reductions, and this is a success given that in recent months, especially

, it seemed they had no intention of keeping commitments," he added. the premier.

On the climate "there is a sense of urgency from everyone, overall there is a commitment not to undertake emissions policies that go against the trend that everyone has committed to observe until 2030. It is hoped that this element will be maintained . After Paris, many significant things have been done but emissions have increased, they have returned to pre-Covid level, there is some concern, we need to demonstrate credibility by keeping our commitments ".

"From

I expected a more rigid attitude, if something has changed it's the language, more projected to the future and not anchored to the past. And then China has accepted the scientific value of that degree and a half. They are not easy commitments". 

"  In recent years we have been little capable of

but something has changed: this summit makes me confident in the capacity that the G20 seems to have found to face what we have faced at our expense as epochal, existential challenges. The health challenge, Covid, gender, income and wealth inequalities and those discovered in recent years are challenges that we cannot solve alone ". 

" Italy tried to understand the

, there was a right if other countries were reluctant to move on climate. Developing countries say, you have polluted a lot and we are in this situation because of you. But if we enter this fight in the climate, we are not going

anywhere. ”Mario Draghi said this at the end of the G20.

"We must listen to the point of view of others by sharing ambitions. This is what Italy has done with India, Russia, China. This is the role we have tried to play, it seems that it has made a difference. It seems to me so", the premier explained.

"Today we have reached an important goal, to put an end to the financing of unabated coal energy. And also some form of non-net commitment, but very likely to make sure that new coal plants are very limited. . For China and India we have felt a greater willingness to move towards these goals ". 

"We have a common ambition that was not there before, it is formulated at various levels that must be respected and it seems to me very important that in the work carried out by finance ministers for the first time in a G20 document or communiqué we find mechanisms for pricing and we ask the various components to act in accordance with their mandates to achieve these objectives and identify a mix of policies suitable for low-emission economies ".

For Draghi, the change in some countries was due to the "awareness" of the situation and "the promise of help from the richer countries". On this, he concluded, "both China and Russia have decided to change their position".

The official and formal recognition of the fact that "the impacts of climate change at 1.5 C are much lower than 2 C" and the commitment to reduce the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees compared to the pre-industrial era through "Significant and effective actions and commitments by all countries, taking into account the different approaches" is one of the main points of the document approved by the leaders of the G20 in Rome, just as the work of the COP26 is starting in Glasgow. further global efforts in the fight against global warming.

The final document also confirms the commitment to achieve so-called "carbon neutrality" "by the middle of the century or around the middle of the century, taking into account different approaches, including the circular carbon economy, socio-economic developments, economic, technological and market and the promotion of the most efficient solutions ".

The precise date of 2050 was removed from the text, but President Mario Draghi still mentioned it during the final press conference. 

"The EU has taken the lead in this effort and has promised to give one billion euros in aid to tackle the humanitarian crisis of very large proportions but which is not yet perceived". 

"Obviously there are quadrants where there are tensions, but there have always been, but we have managed to overcome them. I don't know what the evolution will be, but years ago a New Yorker article on China-US relations said 'Fight-Fight and Talk-talk ', is what always happens. If the desire to work together is maintained, and I must say that even in the last general assembly of the UN, above the controversy, this desire was very present ".

"The commitment is to vaccinate 40% of the world population this year and 70% next year. It is a gigantic commitment", but "it is a commitment that has been confirmed by all".

"It has come to the overcoming of the discussion of the years of the Trump presidency. But the process is gradual, not everything is suddenly dismantled. It is a process that as with other things can only be gradual. It is not that everything that was is suddenly dismantled. it was built "in the" unilateral "years of the Trump presidency.