Because industrial emissions are still a problem for Europe
Reducing industrial emissions is a priority for Europe. But the discourse on decarbonization is complex and influenced by ideological waste
Air pollution from industrial waste remains a European priority. The Commission took it upon itself, but also realized that it needed to improve its legislation.
“The Industrial Emissions Directive is achieving its goal of protecting human health and contributing to a healthier air and environment. However, it can still be improved and with the European Green Deal we will review the measures ”. So yesterday Virginijus Sinkevicius, Commissioner for the Environment, referring to the specific directive on company discharges. He said this on the occasion of the assessment of the European emissions of mega-industries. A half admission on the still high values released into the atmosphere and neglected by large companies. Evidently not all the Commission's good assumptions have come true. The European Commissioner therefore says that something needs to be reviewed and opens the door to a broad discussion.
The real match will be played in the coming weeks and it is a complex match. It crosses the policies of individual governments and within governments the proposals of parties. There are countries whose economies remain linked to coal and countries where the green declamation far exceeds the substance and effectiveness of the measures. Italy is perhaps the country that faces a new opportunity to get out of internal coalition diatribes. It is no mystery to anyone that Pd and Cinquestelle have different ideas about infrastructure, money to manage, aid for fossil fuels, mobility. Discussions are often influenced by ideological slags, clearly antithetical to the development of a circular economy. The nice words of conferences and agendas are not what is needed.
The general rules agreed in Brussels for decarbonization are, in short, offering a limited contribution to that energy transition once again claimed by the young people of Fridays for future. Not if it comes out until a real balance point is found between the widespread and differentiated situation between the member countries and Ursula von der Leyen's Green deal. If Brussels is also considering a public consultation on the Commission's website to change what needs to be changed, it is Italy that we are thinking of. So that you take advantage of it before everyone else
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/energia/emissioni-europa-aziende/ on Sat, 26 Sep 2020 15:13:06 +0000.