Climate, 9 Italian cities committed to reducing emissions by 80% by 2030, involving mobility, heating, waste cycle, water resources

ROMA – The strategies and programmes to reduce climate-altering emissions of the nine Italian cities participating in the European Union mission to become carbon neutral by 2030 (Bergamo, Bologna, Florence, Milan, Padua, Parma, Prato, Rome and Turin) are at the centre of a new Notebook presented today by theItalian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS). The document contains a detailed analysis of the Climate City Contractthe documents with which each city presents to the European Commission the strategic commitments, action plans and related investments to achieve the ambitious goal of reducing climate-altering emissions by at least 80% by 2030, adopting innovations that involve every area of ​​life in urban areas including mobility, infrastructure, heating of buildings, waste cycle, management of water resources and green spaces.

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The Climate Contract in Cities. Titled “I Climate City Contract of the nine Italian cities of the EU mission on climate neutrality by 2030″, the Notebook is produced by the “Climate Policies” subgroup of the Working Group on Goal 11 “Sustainable cities and communities” of ASviS, with the contribution of the nine Italian cities involved in the “100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030”. Two of the nine Italian cities involved in the Mission, Florence and Parma, have already seen their own Climate City Contract by the European Commission. Five cities, Bergamo, Bologna, Milan, Prato and Turin, are awaiting approval and two others, Padua and Rome, have yet to complete and submit it.

Enrico Giovannini’s comment. “Cities are complex ecosystems that simultaneously influence and are subject to climate dynamics through their systems of living, mobility, energy production and consumption and waste management – ​​commented the scientific director of theASviS, Enrico Giovannini. – as emerges from the Notebook ASviSthe path to neutrality is difficult but possible, taking the example of the nine cities analyzed, where emissions have already decreased significantly compared to 2015. However, there are still many barriers, both regulatory and cultural, such as those that slow down the energy requalification of buildings, the possibility of producing renewable energy on a local scale, the electrification of transport, the transition to forms of sustainable mobility. To overcome them, it is necessary to increase the availability of resources, both public and private. For this reason, to accelerate the decarbonization process of Italian cities, it is necessary to strengthen collaboration at the political and institutional level, on a local, regional, national and European scale, and to involve businesses and society in a structural way”.