{"id":30003,"date":"2021-02-10T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kyotoclub.org\/?p=30003"},"modified":"2021-02-25T09:15:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T08:15:01","slug":"recovery-plan-stop-funding-for-fossil-boilers-if-the-legislation-does-not-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kyotoclub.org\/en\/media-and-documents\/press-releases\/2021\/02\/10\/recovery-plan-stop-funding-for-fossil-boilers-if-the-legislation-does-not-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovery Plan, stop funding for fossil boilers if the legislation does not change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is necessary to distinguish between fossil fuel heating systems and “green” systems to regulate access to the 110% superbonus. If the legislation does not change, it will be necessary to exclude gas boilers from the extension of incentives foreseen by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what Legambiente and Kyoto Club are asking for: the two Associations have launched the awareness campaign “For the decarbonization of heating systems in buildings”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“On the market there are already several \u2018green\u2019 and economically competitive alternatives, such as heat pumps – argue Edoardo Zanchini<\/strong> (Vice President of Legambiente) and Sergio Andreis<\/strong> (Director of Kyoto Club). Superbonus is a good measure, but it can be improved. The 20 billion of euros allocated to this measure are overestimated and withdraw fundamental resources from other initiatives that are heading the decarbonisation of this sector. Some of the incentives could be saved by limiting the supply to heating systems that require renewable energy sources”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a recent study published by Cresme (Centre for Economic, Sociological and Market Research in the Building Sector), domestic heating is one of the main sources of urban pollution in Italy and it is responsible for more than 19% of the emissions produced by our country and 60% of fine dust in urban areas. In Italy more than 19 million gas boilers are installed and it is estimated that more than 7 million of them are older than the Directive 90\/396 \/ EC on the performance of gas appliances. Those systems can be replaced by other gas boilers, which would be more efficient, but in this way, they won\u2019t face the local and global pollution they produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we want to meet the European targets of reducing emissions by 55% in ten years, it is necessary to act now and aim at the decarbonisation of the Italian energy system also through the gradual “scrapping” of methane, LPG and diesel heating systems, starting from the most inefficient ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want to advocate towards the Italian Government, Parliament and at the EU level:<\/p>\n\n\n\n