What Annalisa spoke about.

Mr President, many people think that the UN's effort against the climate crisis is an exercise for ecologists and workers, far from the real problems. And yet, even if I weren't an ecologist, I would work to abandon fossil fuels, because they cause unsustainable bills and skyrocketing increases in the cost of everything, while very few are getting richer. If I were not an ecologist, I would fight

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, EUR 180 billion has been burned in these months of atrocious heat. The hottest summer ever seen, the coolest of the next. €180 billion is a percentage point of European GDP and is the same value as the EU budget, which supports the CAP, cohesion funds, research and innovation in a year. Burnt, literally. The growth expected for the Union in the coming year ha

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we often talk about the ecological transition and decarbonisation, linking them to the risk of deindustrialisation that unfortunately runs through the European Union. However, this risk does not affect all sectors in the same way: it is totally false, for example, that it is a problem for the energy sector, where decarbonisation and competitiveness totally co

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in the most recent heat wave in Europe we have counted more than 1 300 victims, some for illnesses caused by work in unsustainable conditions, some for previous fragility or sudden illnesses, which have clogged our emergency rooms, some for diving into dangerous basins or waterways. Cities that have taken this issue seriously – no one led by far

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, despite the disproportionate amount of falsehoods we have heard so far, we are well aware that electrification is the keystone that enables the twin transition of our energy and industrial system. It is the strategic infrastructure on which the competitiveness of the coming years and also security are at stake. It must be built in line with the revision of th

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the principle of technological neutrality – sacrosanct, but often used to keep outdated and twentieth-century models alive – prompts us to assess the characteristics of all existing solutions in order to achieve a certain objective. Once this analysis is made, however, the industrial strategy must tell us what to use for what need. Biofuels, first of all, m

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, is the ETS therefore a horrible European tax, as some continue to say? No, it is the instrument with which Europe has in recent years pushed industries and energy systems to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels – which we do not have – emissions and dependence on imported gas and oil. It's a good thing we did. An example for everyone? Since the crisis in Ho

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in Spain last week the wholesale price of electricity was €35 per megawatt hour, in Italy €148. Why? Because, with the same mechanism, gas makes the price here, while in Spain it does not. For some years now, thanks to the strategy of Pedro Sánchez and Teresa Ribera, the price is made by renewables. So our problem is fossils, not the ways we have

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a little while ago in this House we discussed the tragedy of the dear bills. Tomorrow we will have a debate on Iran. Is there anything else to show us how dangerous our dependence on imported fossil fuels is? We need to accelerate decarbonisation, making permitting procedures more efficient and reducing bureaucratic obstacles that slow down the implementation of

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the price of energy does not weigh on citizens once, but at least three times: in the bills, when the cost of living and the shopping cart increase, because inflation is driven precisely by energy, when the same work is put in crisis, because business and industry struggle to sustain such high costs. It is therefore not surprising that energy poverty and poverty

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, consumption in the Union accounts for more than half of the GDP of the 27 Member States. The 2030 Consumer Agenda goes in the right direction, affirming a sacrosanct principle: Consumer rights do not hold back growth; they are, on the contrary, a lever to make it inclusive and sustainable. Obviously, however, consumers must be able to rely on reliable informatio

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, let us start from a clear fact: At COP30 on mitigation and exit from fossil fuels, the agreement does not live up to the climate urgency, nor its effects. There is no structured commitment to the process of abandoning fossil fuels; there is no acceleration of individual countries’ 2035 emission reduction commitments to deliver on the Paris Agreemen

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, while we are debating in this House, a humanitarian disaster continues to take place in Gaza, which is not a fatality, but the result of precise inhuman and criminal political choices: bombings, sieges, deportations, without a safe place, hunger used as a weapon of war. This Parliament and these institutions cannot pretend that there is no ongoing genocide

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, under Rule 179, I am going back to talking about what happened to the Global Sumud Flotilla, a humanitarian mission that was illegally and criminally stopped in international waters, with over 400 citizens, including many Europeans who were transported, despite themselves, and deported to waters at the port of Ashdod, Israel, and there they were treated witho

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission and the Council have approved the 17th package of sanctions against Russia: with one hand we rightly sanction the aggressor but with the other we continue to finance it. In 2024, the EU spent €23 billion to buy Russian fossil fuels: 19 to help Ukraine, not to mention Rosatom, which feeds undisturbed several European nuclear power plants. We need t

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, do you remember the images of goats drinking mud, the orchards being planted, the news of hundreds of children who do not go to school for days? All this happens in European countries that are then devastated by floods. The European Water Resilience Strategy is vital: Farmers know this well: first to suffer the effects of the climate crisis including erosion,

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, oceans and seas produce 50% of oxygen, absorb 25% of CO2, regulate the climate and are a true sanctuary of biodiversity. Putting their balance at risk means threatening our health, our security and our future: Just think of the overheating of the Mediterranean or the slowing down of the Gulf Stream, which are already having very heavy impacts in Europe. We have

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am a climate activist and I am very clear about the importance of being prepared to manage crises. We are not enough, also because of the irresponsible propaganda of right-wing deniers. In recent days, however, there has been very little talk of earthquakes, fires and floods and too much of bags to survive 72 hours of military attacks. Allow me to say: It i

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, availability and cost of energy, raw materials and infrastructure: these are the most important voices for any company. Europe is lagging behind on these fronts and it is right and positive that the European Clean Industry Pact clearly identifies the way forward: energy transition, circular economy, training, innovation, combating speculation. What worries us

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the last ten years have been the warmest since 1850, with 2024 being the hottest of all, which is likely to be the coolest of the next few. I could talk about the temperatures reached this summer by the Mediterranean or the Azores anticyclone. I could talk about the tragedies and extreme events in Europe and around the world, Emilia-Romagna, Valencia, the d

(IT) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, between the climate crisis, contamination and leaky infrastructure, water shortages have become a serious problem again for too many people in Europe too: I am thinking of water stress in Basilicata, Sicily, the Greek islands, throughout southern Europe; I am thinking of the large areas contaminated by PFAS. The 2020 Directive frames both the issue of ac

Madam President, the tragedy of Valencia, a few days after those of Central Europe and Italy, deeply affected me as an environmentalist, because I see what the scientific community has been denouncing for decades happening. It is also happening, right now, in Sicily. It affected me as a human being, because in Valencia they are part of my family and my heart. To the closeness to the victims and to