(ANSA) - Rome, October 16 - The 2020 budget has earmarked 11
billion euros for the environment over three years, Environment
Minister Sergio Costa told an ANSA Forum Wednesday.
"For the first time, I believe, we have looked at the world
of the environment in a different way", Costa said.
"They have structured for the next three years 11 billion
euros in green investments".
Costa also called for creating environmental economic areas
in Italy, and said talks would be started at the ministry to
implement a plastics ban and "support at a social level the
ecological transition".
11 bn for environment in 3 yrs, Costa
'Looked at environmental world in different way for 1st time'