Giovannini, over 60,000 dead a year from smog

For the European ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2035 “recently a study by Motus E indicates 14,000 places at risk, not 60,000, but no one mentions the 60,000 deaths a year from pollution in Italy.
In accounting, everything must be considered”. This was stated by the scientific director of Asvis and former Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Enrico Giovannini, at the meeting “Constitution, environment and future generations: a year later, where are we?”. “We’ve known this since 2019 with the Fit for 55 package, finding out 4 years later isn’t exactly the best of life”, underlines Giovannini, adding that “with the other production segments we can try to compensate those who risk losing their jobs by remembering that, in 12 years, many of the people who work in those factories will be retired”. is just as important as the social and environmental one”.

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