Although elder generations4 have exceeded the boundaries in many indicators, they also have contributed to the implementation of policies that helped partly decoupling the environmental indicators from PIB.
These policies, implemented from the 90’s onwards, such as the introduction of natural gas, the investment in renewable sources of electricity, the energy efficiency measures, the policies promoting cleaner vehicles and fuels, and the policies on waste valorisation, reduced the environmental impacts of its own and of the younger generations.
4 Pre-baby boomers (born between 1900 and 1923 and between 1924 and 1939), Baby Boomers (born between 1940 and 1959) and Generation X (born between 1960 and 1983)