Meloni’s comments came during her address at the COP29 summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.
“We need a balanced energy mix to favour the transition process,” she said.
“We need to use all available technologies.”
The prime minister stressed that “ambitious goals” were outlined at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai in January.
“Reaching these goals requires everyone’s cooperation, starting with the major emitters of greenhouse gases and adequate financial support,” said Meloni.
“Working for a valuable compromise requires sharing responsibilities and overcoming divisions between developed countries and emerging and developing economies.”
Meloni reiterated that Italy will continue to support initiatives like the Green Climate Fund and the Loss and Damage Fund.
However, stressed the prime minister, it is a priority for decarbonisation to consider the sustainability of “our production and social systems”.
“We must protect nature with people at its core, an approach that is too ideological and not pragmatic risks to take us off the road to success,” she said in her speech.
“We need to use all available energies, not just renewables,” claimed Meloni, including “bio fuels and nuclear fusion” which “could produce clean, safe and limitless energy”.
“Let’s work for a new energy diplomacy to multiply opportunities for cooperation between the global North and global South,” added Meloni.
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