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What Is Climate Change Mitigation
Climate change is primarily caused by human activities[1] . This is the conclusion reached by over 97% of scientific studies published in academic journals[2] , as well as by leading international scientific institutions, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and NASA. The rise in greenhouse gas emissions that began with the Industrial Revolution - particularly carbon dioxide (CO₂) and methane (CH4 ), due to the use of fossil fuels, industrial processes, intensive agriculture, and changes in land use - has already caused measurable warming of the Earth’s surface and oceans, with growing and increasingly evident impacts on ecosystems and societies.
Climate change mitigation encompasses all actions aimed at reducing climate-altering emissions, limiting the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and slowing the rise in global temperatures. This is not merely a matter of isolated measures implemented by individual companies or countries, but rather a structural transformation of the economic and production model involving energy (with the transition from fossil fuels to renewables), mobility (to be progressively electrified), and industrial processes (to be decarbonized and oriented toward circularity). This is accompanied by the protection and restoration of natural ecosystems, which are essential for CO₂ absorption.
From this perspective, mitigation is not only a response to an emergency, but a driver of technological, industrial, and social innovation, capable of reshaping entire sectors of the economy.
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[3]The Paris Climate Agreement, signed in 2015, commits the 194 Parties (national governments and the European Union) to limit the global temperature increase to well below 2 °C compared to pre-industrial levels, while aiming to limit it as much as possible to 1.5 °C.
To achieve this goal, countries are required to define and periodically update National Emissions Reduction Plans, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
However, the commitments made so far are not sufficient to keep warming within the threshold considered safe by the scientific community. Even if all currently submitted plans were fully implemented, the global temperature increase by the end of the century would be between 2.3 and 2.5 °C above pre-industrial levels[4] . The Global Climate Highlights 2025 report[5] confirms that the last three years were the warmest on record and that the average for the 2023–2025 period exceeded 1.5 °C for the first time ever.
This does not mean that the Paris Agreement goals have already failed, as they refer to a long-term average (approximately twenty years). And, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the tools to drastically reduce emissions already exist today. Low-carbon technologies are mature, and renewable energy sources have reached competitive costs. Data from the Ember research center[6] show that in 2025, solar power grew more than any other source of electricity and that new renewable capacity installed over the course of the year reached approximately 793 GW. Solar and wind power accounted for 17.6% of global electricity production, bringing the total share of low-carbon sources to 43%.
Climate Change Mitigation for Angelini Industries
The development of renewable energy has also emerged as a central theme from Angelini Industries’ Youth and Sustainability Observatory, where 2025 data show that for Gen Z, sustainability means the development of renewable energy (for 51% of respondents)[7] and, above all, the reduction of environmental impacts (for 60% of respondents).
The first step toward reducing environmental impacts linked to climate change is understanding one’s own carbon footprint. This is why, in 2024, Angelini Industries calculated the carbon footprint of the entire Group for the first time: a step that enabled the precise identification of generated emissions and potential strategic solutions.
The Group has launched a decarbonization initiative based on specific actions and investments, such as: installing photovoltaic systems for energy production at its main plants; implementing measures to optimize heat recovery at certain facilities (cogeneration); purchasing certified renewable electricity at all Italian plants; installing charging stations to promote sustainable mobility; and more. Among the initiatives undertaken is Fater’s decarbonization program, which in FY 2024/2025, thanks to the integration of environmental sustainability into the product innovation process, reduced the overall carbon footprint by 15% compared to the FY 2020/2021 baseline.
Taken together, these actions present a vision of mitigation as a structured and continuous process that combines scientific rigor, technological solutions, and future-oriented industrial choices. These choices are not confined to internal operations but also produce concrete effects on the regions and communities where the company operates.
[1] https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/scientific-consensus/
[2] The 97% figure is derived from an analysis of approximately 12,000 scientific articles on climate published between 1991 and 2011. Subsequent studies have confirmed a similar or even higher consensus, exceeding 99%.Source: J. Cook et al., Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature, Environmental Research Letters, 2013; J. Cook et al., 2016; M. Lynas et al., Greater than 99% consensus on human-caused climate change, Environmental Research Letters, 2021.
[3] United Nations, status of signatures and ratifications of the Paris Climate Agreement: https://treaties.un.org/pages/viewdetails.aspx?src=treaty&mtdsg_no=xxvii-7-d&chapter=27&clang=_en
[4] https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2025
[5] https://climate.copernicus.eu/global-climate-highlights-2025
[6] https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/highlights-of-the-global-energy-transition-in-2025/
