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they will be subtracted from the calculation of the vestments of the Pact of Stability. Electric recharging networks for electric vehicles should be promoted, thereby promoting transportation at a lower cost and a lower level of pollution, starting from Motorways of the Sea and of course starting also by the transformation of marine diesel engines by LNG (liquified natural gas).
Protection of the environment is an investment in the future and a necessity in order to live better in the present. Work and health should no longer be mutually exclusive, but rather they should complement each other. Therefore the green economy cannot be separate from the economy as a whole, but it should instead be one integrated part of the economy. Industry, transport, and agriculture must reorient themselves according to the criteria of efficiency, of limiting harmful emissions, and reusing recyclable materials and intelligent technologies to dispose of waste, reclaim land, optimize the water cycle, making the territory secure, and incentivize transportation with low environmental impact. Training programs and incentives must facilitate “green” choices. The rules must be clear and reasonable—and the simplifications implemented by the Government, for example the new unique environmental Authorization, is an instance of how this can be done—but it is necessary to be uncompromising with those that violate them.
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Efforts already in place to reduce and recycle waste, which must be maintained and, if possible, strengthened, should be combined with efficient production that can lengthen the lifetime of products, as well as a revival of recycling, in line with the best European examples where landfills have been cleared. Twenty years since the previous national energy plan, a new national energy strategy was presented that is sustainable growth, in economic and environmental terms, whose imperative goal is to make the country an energy hub in the Mediterranean. It is necessary to continue on the path laid by implementing the guidelines of the strategy to give Italy less costly, safer and more sustainable energy.
If the 10/91 law were to be rigorously applied, it would take 14 liters of diesel fuel or cubic meters of methane to heat buildings, per square meter per year. In reality we consume more than that. Since 2002 the German law, and the more recent regulation in effect in the Province of Bolzano, is set to 7 liters of diesel, or cubic meters of methane per square meter per year as the maximum allowable consumption for space heating. This is less than half of the average consumption of Italians. Using the labeling in place on home appliances, in the Province of Bolzano this level corresponds to Class C, and Class B corresponds to a consumption of not more than 5 liters of diesel, or cubic meters of methane, and class A is a consumption not exceeding 3 liters of diesel, or cubic me-