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Italy To Spend More Than $1 Million For Special Climate Envoy
- The envoy will have $1 million budget over 3 years: document
- Decree to set aside the funds was approved Thursday: officials
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Italy will spend nearly one million euro ($1.2 million) to fund a climate envoy role just a few weeks ahead of crucial Group of 20 meetings and four months before the UN COP26 climate summit in Scotland.
The special envoy will support Italy’s international negotiations on environment and climate change, and will be appointed by foreign minister Luigi Di Maio and by green transition minister Roberto Cingolani. The appointment, first reported by Bloomberg News, was confirmed by Di Maio.