For the environmentalist associations Greenpeace, Kyoto Club, Legambiente, and WWF Italia "the Mattei plan smells like gas".
They stated this in a joint note explaining that "even if the president did not explicitly nominate him, in reality it is very clear that renewables are not the protagonists in the Mattei Plan, the protagonist is still gas, together with Eni's designs on biofuels. It is a short-sighted vision of the energy future of the country and on the concept of ecological transition".
According to the NGOs, "its only objective appears to be to transform Italy into a gas energy hub through cooperation that passes through Africa and polluting sources, increasing the country's energy dependence".
The Plan, we read in the note, "seriously risks compromising the existing commitments to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees centigrade and those made in the last two COPs on climate".
We ask the Meloni government for a meeting to present the real energy plan that Italy needs, to become the hub of renewables", which - the associations write - "must represent the backbone of Italy's decarbonisation policy and replace the fossil sources. The country has all it takes to become the hub of renewable energy by focusing on clean sources, efficiency, networks and storage, but for this to happen a bold, innovative and inclusive leadership approach is needed which also aims at an ambitious update of the Pniec ".
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