Europe wants to play a more decisive role in the fight against pollution

The future of the planet is intimately tied to the global climate and global warming: the signals that Earth sends are worrying because of the rise in temperature sensations caused by the greenhouse effect. Despite the obvious evidence of this cliffy deterioration, the Trump United States withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement to pursue a better economic result over the short term. The White House has produced more than doubts about the goodness of its choice, but the impact, even moral, of the lack of American participation in climate improvement, is likely to have negative effects not only in the long run but also in the medium term. Awareness of this situation must lead Europe to play a leading role in combating climate change, just replacing the United States. The Bonn Climate Summit highlighted this need, coupled with the need to exert even greater pressure on the US to change its policy on pollution and support all those non-federal but state or communal administrations, also very important such as New York , which are contrary to Trump's environmental policy. Hopefully, these US institutional actors will decide to implement energy production through renewable sources, reducing their carbon dioxide emissions, in order to compensate for the increase at federal level. The overall forecast of carbon dioxide emissions for 2017 is, however, negative, because it is likely to rise again and further affect the overall climate situation on the planet. The energy consumption of countries in the process of industrialization or needing ever greater volumes of commodity production is still too much tied to raw materials that need to be cheap, such as coal, just to limit production costs. In Europe, it is thought to follow the English example, where the increase in the cost of coal per ton resulted in the closure of power plants using this fuel for electricity production, resulting in a lowering of emissions. France should follow this approach, also in order to comply with the Paris government's commitment to close coal-fired power plants on French soil by 2021. Germany, the other major coal consumer, has recognized its difficulties as the European Commissioner for Climate and Environment said in a report, said that seven European countries are still lagging behind in the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions and that, among them, the Germany is still the nation that emits more greenhouse gases among the countries of the entire Union. The German position is very important, since Berlin wants to impose itself as a world leader in the fight against pollution, but in practice it fails to resolve its situation, which is so unbelievable. If Europe wants to play a leading role in the fight against pollution, it will have to present with comforting data in the face of the rest of the world, values ​​achieved with clear and sustainable formulas and measures for the economy, and at least partly reproducible in others areas of the planet; after the old continent, it will be possible to promote broader policy, such as the financing of the poorest states that have started at a later industrialization, and to bridge the distance from countries with older industrialization using raw materials more polluting energy. If the US is distancing itself from the desire to reduce pollution, it is necessary to increase cooperation with China and push it towards less polluting consumption, because without Beijing it is not reasonable to hope for results. If Washington is ever more isolated on this issue, there may be a trend reversal. In any case, for Europe, engaging in the first person becomes a deterrent to increasing its international prestige in a practical and not just nominal way.