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Naples: G20 on climate at the start, bilateral Cingolani with Kerry and Pompili

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Tearing two shared documents in 48 hours, to raise the bar of political “ambitions” on the environment, energy and, above all, climate. The G20 meeting that opened on the morning of July 22 in Naples, in a heavily armored Royal Palace, should try to synthesize the objectives of contentment of climate change in the club of the 20 richest economies on the planet. Judging by the negotiations that are taking place and continue to take place even in the morning, the goal is far from affordable.

The G20 suffers from a previous split between the more “ambitious” targets set by the G7 members (temperature increase within 1.5 degrees and carbon neutrality in 2050) and the more modest ones pushed by countries such as China, Russia, India and Saudi Arabia, skeptical of the guidelines set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the hypothesis of zero impact within three decades. It is no mystery that the most difficult (and influential) interlocutor is China, beaten by the US for measures that are still insufficient with respect to the climate emergency.

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The Cingolani-Kerry face to face

Ecological Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani broke the ice in the morning with two bilaterals with US President John Kerry’s climate envoy and his counterpart in the French government of Emmanuel Macron, Ecological Transition Minister Barbara Pompili. According to what is learned, in the first face to face Kerry and Cingolani reiterated the importance of the goal of limiting the rise in temperature to 1.5 degrees centigrade and agreed on the urgent need to convince the most “rebellious” countries to include uin clear reference to the target in the press release dated 23 July, the day mainly dedicated to the climate issue. Kerry, in a speech in London on July 20, had curried China, inviting Beijing to accelerate its objectives to combat climate change.

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