BARI (ITALPRESS) – “Our idea of a Green Deal is a managed, realistic Green Deal”. This was stated in Bari by the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, on the sidelines of a meeting in support of the centre-right mayoral candidate, Fabio Romito. “Our objective – he continued – is what we have signed up to as a country: neutrality by 2050, the objective of maintaining the earth’s temperature according to the Paris Agreement by 2030, therefore the transition to renewables and clean energy; the reversal of what is the current ratio of electricity production which is two thirds from fossil and one third from renewable and the arrival by 2030 of having two thirds from renewables and one third from fossil”. “This – added the minister – means a path that initially involves the closure of coal, which as far as the Puglia region is concerned means the closure of the Brindisi plant and therefore a strong reindustrialization commitment that must compensate for all this. Subsequently it will mean abandoning oil by moving towards renewables, aware of one fact: the increase in consumer demand cannot be totally achieved with ordinary renewables (photovoltaic and wind), even if I have a lot of confidence in offshore wind on the high seas, where there is continuity of wind. The 2050 objective must include nuclear energy in the energy mix. This is the great environmental operation.” xa2/vbo/gtr
