Environmental impact of Italian Industry in 2024

Encouraging patterns of consumption and production that are sustainable is a crucial imperative for the future. This involves utilizing Earth's resources efficiently, minimizing greenhouse gas emissions, and disconnecting economic growth from environmental degradation. The increase in the consumption of goods and services led to an increase in direct and indirect energy consumption and greenhouse gas production by industries. Recently the European Union has fixed the target of reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to 55% before 2055 (fit for 55). As far as the Italian context is concerned, these emissions are mainly related to household consumptions, mobility and in significant amount to the industrial activities (28.2%in 2022 according to Eurostat statistics). The latter, often referred as to "hardly to abate" emissions are not equally distributed in the Italian area, being the majority located in the northern part of Italy. This study aims to demonstrate how relevant such emissions are in specific areas and the real perspectives of reduction in 10 years, based on the ongoing activities and commitment and the most relevant technologies in this regard. The Italian data will be compared with those available at a European level and other relevant geographical areas such as the United States.