Italy to put sustainability and climate change in school curriculum

In first, schools in Italy will have sustainability and climate crisis as a compulsory subject in ir curriculum. UN’s 2030 nda for sustainable development will be incorporated into as many subjects as possible from September, with one hour a week dedicated to mes including global heating and humans’ influence on planet. Lorenzo Fioramonti, Italy’s education minister anunced that even subjects like geography, mamatics, and physics will be taught from perspective of sustainability. minister is a former ecomics professor who was criticized earlier this year for encouraging students to miss school to take part in climate protests.

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Fioramonti said that education ministry is being changed to make sustainability and climate center of education model. He ded that he wished to make Italian education system first education system that puts environment and society at core of everything learned in school.

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Italy imposes taxes on plastic and sugary drinks

minister is a kwn member of pro-environment Five Star Movement and also Italian government’s most vocal supporter of green policies. He went to extent of proposing taxes on airline tickets, plastic, and sugary foods in order to generate funds for education and welfare which was criticised and t accepted. Yet 2020 Budget of Italy did have a tax on both plastic and sugary drinks. Italian Government has been largely inclined towards greener policies despite initial opposition to his ideas, Fioramonti said.

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Industrialists, ex-deputy PM criticise taxes

At same time, it has been surveyed that 80% of Italians back taxing sugar and flights, but industry producers oppose plastic tax. y argued that taxes penalise products, t behaviour, and only represents a way to recover resources while placing huge costs on consumers, workers, and businesses. Matteo Salvini, Italy’s climate science-denying former deputy prime minister, whose far-right League voted against almost all key climate proposals in last parliament has also criticised Fioramonti and imposed taxes. 

Yet Fioramonti said that he wanted to represent Italy that stands against all things that Salvini does.

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