Mattarella denounces inadequacy over climate change

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 28 - Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Saturday said the safeguard of the environment and the issue of climate change had been dealt with inadequately for too long, addressing a UN seminar on climate change in Bonn as part of his ongoing State visit to Germany.
    "For too long, we have dealt in an inadequate manner with the issue of the safeguard of the environment and of climate change, artificially opposing between them the reasons of the management of the existent to those of the future of our children and grandchildren - inadequate.
    "Because we thought we could deal with it by proceeding separately, looking back at the discoveries of the past, with ordinary resources, with obsolete instruments", noted Mattarella.
    The president also highlighted the "urgency of an energy transition that must be concrete, pragmatic, sustainable and effective".
    "The consequences of our delays are under everybody's eyes and always nefarious.
    "The intensification of the frequency of natural disasters is under everybody's eyes and affects every aspect of our lives, devastating entire territories, sowing victims", also said the president. In his address, he also noted that climate "is a challenge for innovation in which the future is at stake" regardless of the fact that the European Union's impact on global ecological stability is less relevant than that of other industrial giants that contribute in a decisive manner to pollute the planet.
    "Their choices appear outdated and it is Europe's pride to propose to invest in the future", he said. (ANSA).