Coal
Activists urge Italy to quit coal
17/10/08 12:05 Filed in: Enviroment
Every time I read news about how messy my former country is, well I’m being sad. Sad, because the Italian Government has been destroy one of the most wonderful country in the world, and guess what Italians are NUMB. From any angle, you look at this country there is nothing to be proud of it anymore. This is the last issue that Greenpeace has been fight for.
Coal is the most polluting of all fossil fuels. A third of all CO2 emissions come from coal and, if we don't stop using it, these will increase to 60 percent by 2030. Coal is the single greatest threat facing our climate and Europe needs to end its outdated dependency on it.
The Civitavecchia power plant will increase Italy’s CO2 emissions at a time when they should be reducing them. Plants like this will derail the Italian effort to meet the Kyoto target.
The good news!
The Italian government was attempting to block important climate change agreements being discussed by the EU, but the good news is that they have failed! At the end of two days of heated talks in Brussels, EU leaders confirmed their commitment to finalise the climate and energy package before international climate negotiations take place in December.
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