That the planet is suffering from a climate point of view is nothing new: disastrous events are more and more frequent and the latest reports by climatologists leave no hope if there will not be a clear immediate change of course. And on the climate issue, Prime Minister Mario Draghi Mario Draghi in a video message to the Forum of the Major Economies on Energy and Climate (MEF), promoted by US President Joe Biden. «The effects of climate change are already very clear. Over the past 50 years, the number of weather-related disasters has quintupled. Fires are devouring forests, from California to Australia. And from Germany to China, we are seeing increasingly devastating floods. Italy is facing rising sea levels in Venice and melting glaciers in the Alps. Serious water shortages and droughts are increasingly frequent phenomena and disproportionately affect some of the poorest countries in the world, for example in Africa “.
The picture drawn by the premier is well known. Hence the need to call the government authorities to awareness and concrete actions: «With the Paris agreement we have committed ourselves to containing global warming within 1.5 degrees compared to pre-industrial levels. Most of our countries renewed this commitment at recent G20 meetings. However, we must be honest with ourselves and our citizens: we are breaking this promise ”. He then added: “If we continue with current policies, we will reach nearly 3 degrees of global warming by the end of the century – he adds – The consequences of such a rise in temperatures would be catastrophic.”