(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 17 - "The economic policy response to climate change and the pandemic must be a combination of structural policies that facilitate innovation, financial policies that facilitate the access of companies capable of growing capital and to credit and expansive monetary and fiscal policies that facilitate investments and create demand for the new sustainable activities that have been created. We want to leave a good planet, not just a good money ".
Prime Minister Mario Draghi says this in his keynote speech to the Senate in several passages on environmental issues
"As Pope Francis said, 'Natural tragedies are the earth's response to our mistreatment," said Draghi.
"And I think that if I asked the Lord what he thinks, I do not think he would tell me that it is a good thing: it was we who ruined the work of the Lord. ' , requires a new approach: digitalization, agriculture, health, energy, aerospace, cloud computing, schools and education, territorial protection, biodiversity, global warming and the greenhouse effect, are different faces of a multifaceted challenge that sees the ecosystem at the center. which all human actions will develop ".
Draghi then underlined that "Climate change, like the pandemic, penalizes some production sectors without there being an expansion in other sectors that can compensate. We must therefore be the ones to ensure this expansion and we must do it immediately".
"The warming of the planet - continued the premier - has direct effects on our lives and our health, from pollution, to hydrogeological fragility, to rising sea levels that could make large areas of some coastal cities no longer habitable. The space that some megacities have stolen from nature may have been one of the causes of the transmission of the virus from animals to humans ", noted the premier