- In addition, the energy shortage puts 120,000 companies at risk, according to a complaint by Confcommercio.
- The EU is approaching the 80% gas reserve target to face the winter with more margin against Putin.
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Rising energy prices threaten 370,000 jobs in Italy until June 2023
The rise in the price of energy goods puts 120,000 companies and 370,000 jobs in Italy at risk from now until the first half of 2023, the business association Confcommercio denounced today.
The conference estimated that the energy expenditure of the tertiary sector will amount to 33,000 million in 2022, triple that in 2021 (11,000 million) and more than double that in 2019 (14,900 million), and that the most penalized sectors will be retail, restaurants, hotels and transport, the latter mainly due to the rise in fuel prices.
Confcommercio argued that the new Italian Government, which comes out of the polls on September 25, must face this problem and promote among the Twenty-seven the approval of a community ceiling on the price of gas to "dramatically reduce the cost of energy" of all companies, not only electro-intensive ones.
"Otherwise, we run the risk of frustrating the economic recovery of recent months" after the coronavirus pandemic, he added.
A new decree to reduce emissions and energy
The Minister of Economic Development, Giancarlo Giorgetti, has approved this Thursday a new decree that encourages industrial investments aimed at reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% or energy consumption by at least 20%.
The decree allocates 2,000 million euros from the Development and Cohesion Fund (2021-2027) to finance 101 additional projects that will be carried out 80% in southern regions and 20% in the center-north of the country.
An amount to which 40 million are added in 2022, 400 million in 2023, and 12 million for each year from 2024 to 2030, already approved by the Government of Mario Draghi with the aim of unlocking more projects.
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