News from Italy

On the Earth Day, 19 international delegations meet in the Sicilian city.

Siracusa 22/04/09. The G8 Environment Ministers’ Meeting Siracusa, hosted by Italian Minister of Environment Stefania Prestigiacomo, is currently underway.

A Greenaccord delegation, led by Gian Paolo Marchetti, will attend the working sessions for the entire summit.

There will be 19 international delegations, that will discuss low carbon technologies, climate change, biodiversity and children’s health.

The first two sessions will take place today: the morning session will be dedicated to a meeting with representatives of NGOs and Civil Society followed by the Roundtable Discussion on climate change, jointly organized with the World Bank. The afternoon session will look at low carbon technologies and their possible exploitation in the South of the World with opening speeches by Nobuo Tanaka, International Energy Agency and by Katherine Sierra, The World Bank.

It was on the relationship between North and South of the World and on the necessity of implementing low carbon technologies that Greenaccord has made a in-depth examination during the VI International Media Forum on the Protection of Nature that took place in Viterbo last november.

At 4.30 p.m., in the Maniace Castle conference hall , the Italian Minister of Environment Stefania Prestigiacomo will sign the bilateral agreement between Italy and Australia, through wich the Italian Ministry will join the initiative of the Australian Government to set up a Global CCS Institute. The CCS is the process of carbon capture and storage contained in the gas generated during coal combustion; it is a technology that is receiving more and more attention because falls within the process of technological innovations that is needed to reduce greenhouse gases emissions.

Following the signing of the bilateral pact between Italy and Australia, Enel will sign the agreement to join the set up of the Global CCS Institute.