- Home
- Companies
- Environmental News and Data Services ...
- News
- Italian budget delivers `ten green ...
Italian budget delivers `ten green pledges`
A draft budget approved by the Italian government last Friday contains 'ten pieces of good news' for the environment, according to environment minister Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio. Kyoto protocol compliance measures will attract €600m, while €150m will fund 1,000 new green spaces in Italy’s congested cities. Soil erosion measures will claim €530m, and some €130m is earmarked for boosting rail and sea transport.
Underground transport expansion in Rome, Milan and Naples will cost €800m, while Venice’s controversial Mose system of tide control will be financed to the tune of €210m. Specific action to promote renewable energy sources will be detailed in a separate text. In the summer the government published a financial planning document to guide its budgets over the next four years.
'Policies and measures to combat climate change must be strengthened,' said Ermete Realacci, chairman of a parliamentary environment committee. He urged the Italian parliament, where the draft is now undergoing detailed scrutiny, to improve the budget’s environmental credentials along the lines recommended by his committee earlier this year.
Courtesy of ENDS Europe Daily
-
Most popular related searches
Customer comments
No comments were found for Italian budget delivers `ten green pledges`. Be the first to comment!