Legambiente rejects the postponement of limitations on Euro 5 diesels

Legambiente rejects the postponement of the limitations on Euro 5 diesel "It is a wrong choice that goes in the opposite direction compared to what the country needs to deal with the smog emergency. This measure is an old and useless recipe, which does nothing but worsen the situation". Thus Giorgio Zampetti, general director of Legambiente.

"We ask the Government and the Regions to stop chasing emergencies with exemptions and extensions and to build a national strategy for sustainable mobility and air purification, with clear objectives, adequate resources and certain timescales".

"The quality of the air - continues Zampetti - does not improve by postponing decisions, but by having the courage to take them.

We need more public transport, more shared mobility, more cycling and strong support for the spread of zero-emission vehicles as well as electrification in transport and building heating systems and innovation in industry and agriculture. Interventions which require national support and direction, as the Po basin agreement would require, but in which the regions also have a decisive role. Smog can be fought, this must be clear, as demonstrated by the case of the cloud which in China threatened the holding of the 2008 Beijing Olympics for 20 years and which today no longer exists. Don't waste any more time."