Roberto Cingolani

Roberto Cingolani nel 2018

Roberto Cingolani (born 23 December 1961) is an Italian physicist, academic and manager who served as Minister for Ecological Transition in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mario Draghi from 2021 to 2022.

Quotes

• Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, innovators know that there are no shortcuts to hard work.
  • From the web-show The Innovation Game; quoted in La fabbrica dell'innovazione, repubblica.it, 10 July 2015

• I am a government employee, I do what the government tells me to do. The only thing they will never convince me of is that I should be a conscientious objector to those who pay my salary. That's nonsense.
  • Riccardo Iacona, nella trasmissione "Presa Diretta" del 19 settembre 2016, riportata in 430 MLN accantonati da IIT? Cingolani: «Un risparmio di sana gestione»,roars.it.

• As a father, professional, and citizen, I dream of a more precise Italy, one that does not die of imprecision.
  • 2019 w:it:Leopolda (convegno); quoted in Chi è Roberto Cingolani, il ministro per l’Ambiente e la Transizione Ecologica del governo Draghi, ilriformista.it, 12 February 2021.

• The world is full of radical chic environmentalists and it is full of extreme, ideological environmentalists, who are worse than the climate catastrophe we are hurtling towards if we don't do something sensible.
  • Il ministro Cingolani ospite di Renzi attacca gli ambientalisti: “Quelli oltranzisti e radical chic sono peggio della catastrofe climatica”, Repubblica.it, 1 September 2021.

Quotes about

• Cingolani's position on fourth-generation nuclear energy is similar to ours: that nuclear energy does not exist and there is insufficient data to determine whether it is a valid solution.
  • Stefano Patuanelli, Domani, 20 November 2022

External links

• Media related to Roberto Cingolani on Wikimedia Commons

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