Italy suffocated by transport:greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase

In 2022 alone 413 million tonnes of CO2.Road transport under accusation

ROME - Greenhouse gas emissions in Italy continue to grow in the last two years and will reach a total of 413 million tonnes of CO2 in 2022 equivalent (+0.4% compared to 2021).The constant increase in the transport sector is decisive, over 90% of whose emissions come from road transport, "which compared to the previous year marks a +5% and confirms a trend that knows no pauses and has exceeded 7% since 1990, a value that goes against the trend compared to those of all other economic sectors which on the contrary record marked reductions, with the exception of waste which represents around 5% of the national total".These are the official data from ISPRA (Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research) emerging from the latest edition of the Report 'Greenhouse gas emissions in Italy.Reduction objectives for 2030', presented this morning, which provides the national emissions framework and an assessment of the trend in greenhouse gas emissions.

In addition to transport (26% of the national total), the energy production (23%), residential (18%) and manufacturing industry (13%) sectors are, in the reference period, those that contribute to approximately half of the national emissions of climate-changing gases.As regards the national targets set by the Effort Sharing Regulation – the Effort Sharing Regulation, a policy framework part of the European Union's energy and climate package on greenhouse gas emissions for the period 2021-2030 – which provides for a 43.7% reduction compared to 2005 in emissions produced by transport, residential - building heating - agriculture, waste and industry non-Emission Trading System ETS), "the failure to reduce emissions from transport and residential has led to a progressive approach of Italian emission levels to the maximum permitted limits, until they are exceeded both in 2021 (4.6 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent) and in 2022 (5.5 MtCO2 eq)".These are the official ISPRA data emerging from the latest edition of the Report 'Greenhouse gas emissions in Italy.Reduction objectives for 2030', presented this morning, which provides the national emissions framework and an assessment of the trend in greenhouse gas emissions.

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For previous periods, ISPRA recalls, "Italy has always respected the reduction objectives assigned, both for the adoption of mitigation policies and measures, and for the various economic crisis cycles of 2008 and 2013 connected to the economic dynamics global".The emission reductions requested for the period 2013 - 2020 were "not only achieved, but largely exceeded (for the period in question a total 'overachievement' in terms of reduction of 190 MtCO2eq is calculated)".