Compromises have to be reached for the climate

The extraordinary climate summit directly concerns about 40 world leaders, but at the center of the scene is the new president of the United States, who returns to speak concretely about the ecological problems of the planet, after the denial attitude of his predecessor. Biden wanted this meeting precisely to officially sanction the return of the US in the 2015 agreement, a fact that coincides with the central point of his political program, which provides for the fight against global warming and the application of a development model. sustainable; this direction represents a clear signal to both the international and domestic audiences to achieve the goal of halving emissions by 2030. It must be remembered that the USA ranks second among the world’s largest polluters, preceded only by China. which also participates in the summit with an approach tending to seek the widest possible agreement, as stated by the Chinese president, who sees it as a duty of humanity to tackle climate change, but warns that this cannot constitute the pretext for a confrontation geopolitical. This consideration of the highest Chinese authority seems to constitute a fact with a double value: on the one hand a sort of warning to the United States, that China is open to a common dialogue, which cannot be influenced by unbalanced obligations to the detriment of the Chinese country for penalizing their industries and, at the same time, the fight against climate change must be a space where geopolitical claims must not enter. The fact that the two major world powers are also the two major polluting countries favors an approach to a mutual agreement for collaboration, which can, among other things, favor an aid plan for developing countries towards a transition. the use of renewable energies. But these considerations, apparently positive, do not take into account that the two productive models of Washington and Beijing are in profound opposition for the economic structures and the constitution of their respective social tissues: these differences influence the strategies that the two countries have undertaken, contributing to to remove a possibility of agreement, which, however, has become increasingly necessary. The fundamental and discriminating point is whether the climate issue can become the new opportunity for dialogue, with obvious repercussions also on world stability. However, it is clear that the decrease in emissions necessarily passes from a completely new vision of the production organization that requires long-term planning compared to those so far used more frequently, based on the short term to obtain immediate results. This reorganization, very hypothetical for now, must regard in a practical way the attitude of the public administration of a country, the labor policies and the infrastructure plan, all conditioned by the will to carry out investments and financial programs, which must necessarily , be politically determined. It is understood that states with a democratic system will not be able to take decisions that coincide with states with a dictatorial regime and yet the connection that has been determined by globalization imposes non-conflicting choices on issues of common interest. The only way to reach effective compromises is that of diplomacy, preferably carried out by third parties, such as Europe, which could finally have a decisive role in the international field. The current situation requires rapid decisions, given that the level of carbon dioxide emissions expected in 2021 should reach the second quantity ever issued, after that of ten years ago, during the financial crisis; then as now, with the pandemic in progress, the fastest system designed to restart the economy is to stimulate growth through the use of fossil fuels: as you can see, a very short-term choice that appears in sharp contrast with the need to find long-term solutions, capable of reconciling economic development and environmental protection. The need to reverse the direction is therefore not postponable and all international subjects will have to know how to find mediation solutions but in any case of rapid execution.