The government’s energy-and-climate plan includes a smaller cut in emissions than required by the EU, but has more ambitious targets for renewable energy
to more than 45°C, he began his daily programme thus: “The news, if such it be, is that in July it will be hot—and in December it’ll probably snow. But, according to the environmentalists, we members of the public are to blame.” Such views are routinely aired in the Italian media. What was striking was that these should have been propagated by a journalist who is the partner of the prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, and the father of their child.
Whether Ms Meloni shares her partner’s attitude is unclear. In a video message the following week, she acknowledged that climate-related emergencies would be ever more common, while avoiding saying why. She agreed that Italy had to adjust its environmental and energy policies, but argued that the priority was “safeguarding the territory” and announced a “grand hydro-geological plan” aimed at forestalling floods, landslides and coastal erosion.
Yet a national plan for adaptation, promoted by Mario Draghi, appears to be stalled. The current government’s own energy-and-climate plan, sent to Brussels in July, includes a smaller cut in emissions than required by theCommission, but more ambitious targets for renewable energy than in the previous plan from 2020. The’s policy, as set out in its electoral manifesto, is to promote renewables, but with the aim of reducing Italy’s energy dependence on other countries.
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