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The Italian government has decided to appeal to the Constitutional Court against the moratorium approved at the beginning of July by the Sardinia Region in which an 18-month suspension was foreseen for new projects linked to the production and storage of renewable energy.According to the government, this regional legislation in fact exceeds the competences attributed to Sardinia by the Statute, coming into conflict with national and European laws and violating articles of the Constitutional Charter.The governor of Sardinia Alessandra Todde immediately attacked the Meloni executive, later accused of "demagoguery" by the Brothers of Italy.The Sardinian parliamentarians of the 5 Star Movement have expressed their support in a note thrown the gauntlet at the government on the issue. The hypothesis that an appeal against Sardinian law no.5 of 3 July 2024, entitled "Urgent measures for the protection of the landscape and landscape and environmental assets", had already be...

In the global energy mix, renewable energy sources have gone from 19% in 2000 to over 30% in 2023, thanks to the increase in solar and wind energy, going from 0.2% in 2000 to 13.4% in 2023 .Thus, last year, the carbon intensity of global electricity generation reached a new historic low, 12% lower than the peak in 2007.The fifth Global Electricity Review by the Ember energy expert group was responsible for reporting these data.The document covers electricity data from 215 countries, as well as the latest 2023 data for 80 countries accounting for 92% of global electricity demand.For the first time - the report certified - the global energy system was able to count on almost a third of electricity generated from clean sources. Inside the relationship we read that “the renewable energy revolution, led by solar and wind, is breaking all records and favoring increasingly cleaner electricity production” and that “the world is now at an inflection point where solar and wind...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. While Italy continues to grapple with the water crisis and lack of rainfall, the Council of Ministers of 6 April he approved the so-called "Drought Decree", a decree-law which introduces "urgent provisions for the prevention and fight against drought and for the strengthening and adaptation of water infrastructure".The measure had been announced more than a month ago, March 1st. Substantially, the decree law centralizes the management of decision-making processes - the government speaks of a "simplified regime that refers to the PNRR model" - through the establishment of a control room and the appointment of a National Extraordinary Commissioner for water scarcity, who will be able take the place of local authorities in the event that the time required for the works to be carried out should be extended, and identifies some lines of intervention to "increase the resilience of water systems to...

PNIEC, RePowerEu, Mattei plan:for Italy, the summer of 2023 could be remembered as the season in which the energy of the future was designed.First there pandemic and then there gas price crisis, the war in Ukraine and a sharp increase in inflation have made a systemic update of the Italian energy model necessary.This complex historical period must then be accompanied by new environmental objectives sanctioned by the European Union in recent years, who wants to place himself at the head of the ecological transition.  Thus the Meloni government found itself having to prepare, since its inauguration in October 2022, a series of plans and projects with which to adapt to the new balances between now and 2030, with the aim of achieving climate neutrality by 2050. “The ecological transition and environmental sustainability must go hand in hand with social and economic sustainability”, he reiterated recently the Prime Minister at the Assolombarda assembly to reassure the business world....

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The recovery from the pandemic first, the war in Ukraine and then a dry summer, triggered an earthquake in the energy markets, so much so that Europe in May 2022 with the plan RePowerEU has decided to progressively cut its dependence on Russian gas and review its own upwards objectives for the energy transition. Italy also moved quickly to reorganize its own gas supplies, in view of a possible interruption of that coming from Russia, on which Italy, until a few months ago, depended for around 40% of its consumption. In the aftermath of the Russian invasion, the Draghi government did not hesitate to send the then foreign minister to Algeria Luigi Di Maio, accompanied by the CEO of ENI, Claudio Descalzi, to forge agreements that would guarantee Italy supplies of alternative gas to the Russian one.At the beginning of the new year, the Meloni government completed those agreements and also signed...