Climate adaptation plan out start of 2024 - Musumeci

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 24 - Italy's new climate adaptation plan will be out at the start of next year, Civil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci said Wednesday while commenting on the government's response to the Emilia-Romagna floods that have killed 15 people and caused widespread devastation.
    Briefing the Senate, Musumeci said that he and Environment Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin had already accelerated the definition of the plan "and between the end of this year and the beginning of next year, we will present it updated with data processed between 2016 and 2020".
    He explained that until the current government took office in October, the plan had "not made much progress, so much so that it was not made public." Musumeci stressed: "Climate change is no longer an extraordinary phenomenon. Tropicalisation already arrived in Italy ten years ago and led the then government in 2016 to prepare a national plan for adaptation to the changed climate context. From 2016 until this current government took office, that plan had not made significant progress, so much so that it was not made public." He said "major acceleration" would now take place. (ANSA).