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"Their choices appear outdated and it is Europe's pride to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.
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