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.
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