MILANO – Gate number twelve of the former Milan fair. A little boy in a strange green elf hat grabs Greta’s last blonde lock: the braid of the world‘s most famous environmentalist is ready. Friends surround her, protect her. She is exhausted. He just met Mario Draghi, who promised her that he would do everything to impose a one and a half degree limit of global warming on the G20. Sitting on the ground, Vanessa Nakate observes the Swedish activist. There was also her, who comes from Uganda, in conversation with the premier. “How did it go? Emh …”. He moves his hands like a pendulum, “Like this, like this.” The best summary is of Martina Comparelli, the third of the delegation. “The Prime Minister also said the right things, but he said what we say! We must act, otherwise what is it for? What does Italy intend to do now, tomorrow, not in a month? The Covid emergency has been addressed in ten days You are the de manl whatever it takes, aapply it also to the climate “.
The interview
Vanessa Nakate: “I hope so, the Earth can be saved. But climate justice is taught at school”
by Giacomo Talignani
The world seems upside down, this “Youth4Climate” that precedes the Cop26 in Glasgow in November. The language of the former ECB president, his projects and his fears follow those of young people who strike against greenhouse gases. Bridges once unthinkable, radical convergences. Like when Draghi e Boris Johnson they admit from the stage that so far the greats – by registry office, not only in the sense of the G20 giants – have done a lot, too much wrong. “You have every right to be angry with the rulers – says the British Prime Minister – The future is stolen in front of your eyes. You pay the price of unscrupulous shares from those who came before: forests on fire, terrible storms, crops burned” . Premises and promises of the climate apocalypse to come, which can only be averted by “acting now”.
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It is the world upside down, in fact, but in order to change it requires some compromise and the sweat of mediation. And therefore Draghi premises that “more” will be done. But he adds that sometimes you have to have the patience to put up with the empty words of the powerful that irritate Greta so much. “True, sometimes this ‘blah blah blah’ is just a way to hide our inability to take action. But when you make such big transformations, you need to convince people.” Think of the fatigue of the ecological transition, of the risk of penalizing the “green” West compared to the polluting East. “My feeling, however, is that the leaders are all convinced of the need to act soon.”
The prime minister works to save Glasgow’s COP26 in November. Privately, he reminds activists that the phase is new, “there is Biden and no longer Trump”. Touch the Chinese node, that of the cost of gas. It solemnly undertakes to collect and spend the 100 billion of the fund that the G20 will allocate in the five-year period to developing countries to produce clean energy. “Yes, but when do we abandon coal altogether? What about gas, President?”. “As soon as possible – he promises – Italy, then, must know that wind and sun are our strength”. The Recovery plan also serves this purpose, for renewables. “You can be sure: we are listening to you”.
Towards Cop26
Youth4Climate in Milan, the cry of Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate: “Enough empty words”
by Giacomo Talignani
Also Sergio Mattarella and the minister Stefano Cingolani follow the debate. The “green generation” hands over the platform of proposals ahead of the Scottish summit. They want more courage and less hypocrisy. “You are right to ask for a change – concedes Draghi – We are not keeping the promise of limiting overheating to one and a half degrees”. Yet, he trusts Greta that in Glasgow she will try to the last to bring everyone, including the Chinese, even the Indians, to commit themselves to this goal.
Not everything goes smoothly. A small group of protesters interrupts Draghi by singing “The people united will never be defeated“. Others, outside, are trying to block traffic. With the activists led by Greta, however, it is possible that there are new meetings.” It went very well “, the prime minister finally swears.” We await the results of the summit in Scotland “, the environmentalists respond cautiously: A month to really change.
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