Marco Percoco Member of the Commission on Climate Change and Infrastructure

To create the conditions for planning infrastructures and mobility services that care about the environment. This could be a simple definition of the mandate given to the Commission on Climate Change, Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, of which the director of the Bocconi GREEN research center, Marco Percoco, is a member. The Commission will meet for the first time on 21 April.

The Commission, established by the Minister of Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility, Enrico Giovannini, includes 21 external experts, seven representatives of the Ministry of Infrastructure and one from the Ministry of Ecological Transition.

"The purpose is to analyze the impact of transport on the environment, but also the impact of the environment on transport," Professor Percoco says. On the one hand, conditions will have to be created to reduce the impact of transportation, and on the other, the potential effects of climate change on infrastructure will have to be fully understood. "Although this part of the relationship may seem less intuitive," Prof. Percoco explains, "more rainfall on highway surfaces increases maintenance needs, for example, and the same can be said of frequent temperature changes for train tracks."