Vatican to become the world first carbon-neutral state
Italy agreed to transform a 430 hectares of area in the north of Rome, a 430 hectares of field in the north of the discussions, to meet the needs of the Holy See and to transform the Vatican into a large solar farm where it would produce enough electricity in order to transform the world into the world’s first carbon neutral state.
The agreement announced on Thursday, according to the Vatican statement, the development of the Santa Maria Galeri field will maintain the agricultural use of the land and minimize the environmental impact on the region.
The details were not released, but the Vatican will be exempt from paying Italian taxes to import solar panels, but will not benefit from the financial incentives they have when the Italians go to solar energy.
Italy can use it in accounting to achieve clean energy targets in its name. Authorities said that the excessive electricity produced by the farm beyond the needs of the Vatican will be given to the local community.
The Vatican officials estimated that it would cost 100 million euros ($ A177 million) to improve the solar farm, and that after being approved by the Italian Parliament, the contracts could be offered.
The Vatican Foreign Minister Paul Gallagher signed an agreement with Italy’s Ambassador to Holy Vision Francesco Di Nitto. The Italian parliament should approve the regulation as it has financial effects for the region with extroverted status in Italy.
Santa Maria Galeria site has long been a source of debate due to electromagnetic waves spread by the Vatican radio towers since the 1950s. The rural area, 35 km north of Rome, dominates two dozens of short and medium -wavy radio antennaes that convey news from the Duzines of the Catholic Church around the world.
As the region developed, the residents began to complain about health problems, including examples of childhood leukemia, which they accused of electromagnetic waves produced by towers. The Vatican rejected any causal connection, but reduced transmission.
Pope Francis asked the Vatican to work from the Vatican to convert the area into a wide solar farm, hoping to preach the need to move away from fossil fuels and find clean, carbon neutral energy resources.
Pope Leo XIV visited the site in June and confirmed that Francis aims to see his vision. Leo strongly seized Francis’s ecological mantos, using a new prayer and readings inspired by Pope Francis’s environmental heritage.
In the 1990s, at the summit of the discussions on radio towers, the inhabitants filed a lawsuit against the Vatican radio officials and claimed that emissions exceeded the Italian legal limit, but the court cleared the donor. In 2012, the Vatican announced that it reduces half of the transfer hours from the site due to technological progress in the internet broadcast, not due to health concerns, but due to technological progress in the internet broadcast.
