Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Altero Matteoli of Italy
Matteoli has been a corporate manager.
conference during the Communion and Liberation summit in Rimini.
Environment Minister Altero Matteoli said taxes on the gas-guzzlers could be used to fund incentives for people to scrap old cars and buy more environmentally friendly ones.
Matteoli said Italy's Environment Ministry was working on a way of calculating road taxes depending on a car's pollution level - the size of its engine, its registration year and the sort of fuel it uses.
Matteoli said he could reintroduce incentives for people to scrap old cars which spew out more pollution than new ones.
Environment Minister Altero Matteoli said the taxes on gas-guzzlers could be used to fund incentives to scrap old cars and buy more environmentally friendly ones.
Environment Minister Altero Matteoli said the taxes on gas-guzzlers - which could benefit Turin-based Fiat but incur the wrath of other European countries - could be used to fund incentives for people to scrap old cars and buy more environmentally friendly ones.
Taxing SUVs would not only be a tax on pollution but also on causing traffic jams," Environment Minister Altero Matteoli said in an interview with the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
Matteoli said Italy's Environment Ministry was working on a way of calculating road taxes depending on a car's pollution level - the size of its engine, its registration year and the sort of fuel it uses - though such a formula would still benefit Fiat, whose fuel-efficient Multijet diesel engine is one of Italy's best sellers.
During an October 6 press conference October 6 to present results of the informal consultation in preparation for COP9, Matteoli said that Italy, in the name of the EU and as chairman, is preparing the COP9 "so as to facilitate a positive decision from Russia.
Matteoli said that recent studies forecasting climate changes to 2030 show that to limit global warming greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by at least 50 percent compared to 1990, much higher than the Kyoto Protocol target of a 5.
registration year and the sort of fuel it uses.
spew out more pollution than new ones.
MILAN (Thomson Financial) - Italy's infrastructure minister Altero Matteoli said the government is preparing a reply to the European Commission's queries on a 300 million euros bridging loan granted to Alitalia SpA.
Italy's minister of infrastructure and transport Altero Matteoli has written a letter to Messina Bridge concessionaire Società Stretto di Messina's president Pietro Ciucci confirming the government's commitment to restarting the project.
MILAN (Thomson Financial) - Italy infrastructure minister Altero Matteoli has allocated 107 million euros of state funds to help truckers, with 90 percent of the funds going on lower motorway tolls, his ministry said.
diesel fuel and gasoline to help buy less-polluting buses.
Italian Environmental Minister Altero Matteoli took more wind out of the Kyoto Treaty's sails Dec 15 when he said plans for a second commitment period after the treaty expires in 2012 should be dropped if the world's major countries -- including the United States -- are unwilling to join.
The Kyoto Treaty may have to die a natural death after 2012 and be replaced by bilateral deals if the United States and big developing countries refuse to make specific promises about curbing greenhouse-gas pollution, Italian Environment Minister Altero Matteoli was quoted on Wednesday as saying.
Matteoli said it was important to find a strategy to include the United States, the only major country to abstain from Kyoto, in "international efforts to cut emissions," press reports said.
Matteoli said that Italy could consider talks on bilateral, rather than multilateral, climate change agreements and similar thinking was emerging in Britain and France.
A small force of Italian troops, military police and environment and cultural experts will leave for Iraq on Sunday on a week-long mission, Italian Environment Minister Altero Matteoli said Saturday.
Matteoli said his ministry was ready to provide funding of 1.
Ryanairs Chief Executive, Michael OLeary said:If Sig Matteoli is concerned with the offensive gesture made by Umberto Bossi, then perhaps he should ask Sig Bossi to apologise for the unpleasant gesture.