In cities, “traffic restrictions are needed, but on the other hand, the replacement of vehicles must go ahead equally quickly, even if only the euro 1 and 2 would have had enormous significance on the environmental front if we think that a euro 2 pollutes 28 times a euro 6 “. This was stated by Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, Minister of the Environment and Energy Security at the Green and Blue festival, underlining that there is in any case “a political, economic and social cost to be assessed”. “I am convinced that cities, especially metropolises, are the frontier in the fight against climate change. But they are also the places where the effects of hydrocarbon pollution are most direct and serious. If 70% of harmful emissions come from cities , then it is precisely from the cities that we must begin to systematically and energetically address the issue of leaving fossil fuels” he added. The minister recalled that today about 50 million Italians live in cities out of a population that does not reach 60 million. “Intervening on cities is therefore a crucial issue which certainly concerns public institutions, responsible for the general guidelines and rules on urban planning, construction and mobility. But it is also a challenge that arises individually even for citizens who are not subject passive in the climate battle, but must become active subjects. The choices that each of us makes to heat our homes, to move around the city, to use energy, have an impact on the balance of emissions”. According to Pichetto, “therefore there is a double track: the institutional one and the equally important socio-cultural one, which concerns our individual and collective behaviour”.
Source: Ansa
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