"With the Paris Agreement we have pledged to contain global warming to within 1.5 degrees of pre-industrial levels. Most of our countries have renewed this commitment at recent G20 meetings. However, we must be honest with us. themselves: we are breaking this promise. If we continue with current policies, we will reach nearly 3 degrees of global warming by the end of the century "with" catastrophic consequences.
Prime Minister Mario Draghi said this in a video message sent to the Forum of the Major Economies on Energy and Climate (Mef), promoted by American President Joe Biden.
"The effects of climate change are already very clear. Over the past fifty years, the number of weather-related disasters has quintupled. Fires are devouring forests, from California to Australia. And from Germany to China, we are witnessing. to increasingly devastating floods. Italy is facing rising sea levels in Venice and melting glaciers in the Alps, "he added.
"Serious water shortages and droughts are increasingly frequent phenomena and disproportionately affect some of the poorest countries in the world, for example in Africa", said the Prime Minister, "we must support both our citizens and the countries in development, in addressing this costly "ecological transition" .
"Italy welcomes the 'Global Methane Pledge'. We must reach a common understanding on the need to significantly reduce all emissions of evening gases, including methane, over the next decade. And we must build on the agreement. achieved at the G20 climate meeting in Naples, which underlines the importance of credible monitoring mechanisms. This is just one of the steps to be taken in the coming months and years. President Biden, I look forward to continuing to work with all of you for a more sustainable and equitable future ", he concluded.
(Unioneonline / F)