Greener cities and greener buildings: only 8% of italians would make energy efficient renovations now to comply with the EU directive

• 52% of Italians are not aware the energy class of their homes.
  
  
• In the past 3 years, 1 Italian out of 5 (21%) has carried out energy efficient renovations. The use of Government subsidies, in particular the 50% tax break (34% of those who carried out new works), has been widespread (8 out of 10). Followed by 28% of interviewees who benefited from the 65% tax break on energy-saving construction works referred to as Ecobonus and 27% from the 110% tax break on energy efficient renovations referred to as Superbonus.

These are the findings of a Changes Unipol research, processed by Ipsos, on the state of the art of Italian cities in terms of environmental sustainability, which also showed:

• The Italians’ opinion on the sustainability/energy efficiency of our cities is that the situation is severe and insufficient (5.4 average mark on a scale from 1 to 10).
  • Only 27% expressed a positive evaluation (giving a mark of at least 7), but nearly 1 out of 2 (45%) was very disapproving.
    
    
• Only 20% of those living in city areas were very satisfied with air quality, against a national average of 30%.
  • Only in Cagliari was the situation more positive with nearly 1 inhabitant out of 2 being very satisfied (48% of interviewees giving marks of 8-10). The cities where air quality was perceived as having the lowest quality were Rome and Milan, followed by Turin and Naples.

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