We are already used to it. The few times we talk about protecting the environment, it’s always done from an economic and geopolitical point of view, from the point of view of raising energy prices or looking for alternative resources to get through the winter, in terms of profit or loss. It is no coincidence that in connection with the appointment to the elections on September 25 neither side seems interested in adopting a plan that would finally place the climate crisis on the long list of national emergencies. as soon as possible, take up plans for reconversion and optimization of resources, reforestation of forests and forests, stricter control of the territory to prevent the start of arson, large investments in the study of the geomorphology of the territory to prevent natural disasters, to name a few examples.
However, the planet is suffering, and we are with it. The summer of 2022 has so far been the hottest in recent years, just after the summer of 2003., whose heat was determined by the Unimore Geophysical Observatory (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) “Hyperestremo”. But that’s not all, because, as Legambiente denounces, “Gto From January to July 2022, 132 extreme climate events were recorded in Italy, exceeding the annual average over the past decade.”. From 2010 to July 2022, between floods, heavy rains, tornadoes, river floods, hail, prolonged drought, landslides and heat waves, there were 1318 extreme events with very significant consequences in 710 Italian municipalities. An emergency that can no longer be ignored and systematically postponed. According to the environmental association, Italy is still the only major European country that does not have a national climate change adaptation plan that has been in development since 2018.. Since then, no serious policies, no concrete measures, only vague promises that seem to ignore the ties that the EU and the Paris climate agreement also bind Italy.
“If action is not taken as soon as possible, we risk catastrophic social and economic consequences in the coming years, as well as environmental consequences, as well as a waste of the resources of the National Research Council,” explains Stefano Ciafani, National President of Legambiente, according to which 2022 climate extremes and code red. “We need structural change, innovative policies, investments in clean technologies and a national climate change adaptation plan that can no longer be delayed.” In no uncertain terms, Ciafani appeals to political forces that are candidates to rule the country in the next 5 years, asking them to “update the National Comprehensive Plan for Energy and Climate (PNIEC) in line with the new European targets to reduce emissions of climate gases, RepowerEU ”, “applied a drastic reduction in the timeframe for issuing permits for new renewable energy power plants” and “provided a simplified procedure for the renewal and improvement of existing ones”.
Meanwhile On August 17, the association launched the third Glacier Caravan campaign in collaboration with the Italian Glaciological Committee. until September 3 in Valle d’Aosta, Piedmont, Lombardy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia, monitor the state of the Alpine glaciers, which are shrinking due to global warming at a speed unimaginable even for experts. It is estimated that since the end of the nineteenth century more than 200 have disappeared, giving way to rubble and stones. A dramatic and silent extinction, for the consequences of which we annually pay with accidents, landslides and landslides, and which must be responded to with concrete actions.
Source: Elle