Climate, Draghi to young people: "Your generation is the most threatened, we need bold choices"

"You are right to ask for the change, the time has come".

Prime Minister Mario Draghi said this when speaking at the final session of "Youth4Climate: Driving Ambition" , at MICO Milano Congressi.

"We need to do much more - said in front of the young COP26 activists, in the lead Greta Thunberg -. This generation, your generation, is the most threatened by climate change. You are right to ask for responsibility, to ask for a change. ecological transition is not a choice - it is a necessity. We have only two options. Either we face the costs of this transition now. Or we act later - which would mean paying the much higher price of a climate disaster. We are listening to you. "

Italy, he added, “has allocated 40% of the resources in our National Recovery and Resilience Plan for the ecological transition. Our goal is to increase the share of renewables in our energy mix, make mobility more sustainable, improve the energy efficiency of our buildings and protect biodiversity ".

The pandemic and climate change "have helped push nearly 100 million people into extreme poverty, bringing the total to 730 million. The climate, health and food crises are closely interrelated. To tackle all these crises, we need to act faster - much faster - and more effectively ".

An important appointment is that of the G20 in Rome at the end of October: "We are aware that we must do more - much more. This will be the goal of the Summit in Rome to be held at the end of October. At the G20 level, we want to take a commitment to the goal of containing global warming below 1.5 degrees. And we want to develop long-term strategies that are consistent with this goal. "

THE TENSIONS - Around the MICO in the morning some young people from the Climate Justice Platform   they blocked the entrance to the convention center. The boys, divided into three groups, positioned themselves in front of the Amendola metro, in front of gate 2 and on Viale Scarampo, making traffic difficult. There have also been some tensions with the police.

(Unioneonline / D)