Interview Stefania Prestigiacomo
It’s an uphill path for climate negotiations on the way to Copenhagen. In this interview with EER, Stefania Prestigiacomo, Italy’s 42-year-old minister for the environment, takes stock of the two staging posts held in Italy – one in her Sicilian home town – and outlines Italy’s new approach to climate change. ‘...
‘There’s a new spirit at the international table’
It’s an uphill path for climate negotiations on the way to Copenhagen. In this interview with EER, Stefania Prestigiacomo, Italy’s 42-year-old minister for the environment, takes stock of the two staging posts held in Italy – one in her Sicilian home town – and outlines Italy’s new approach to climate change. ‘In the past, environmental demagogy triumphed over hard fact.’