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EC's Petriccione, who passed away this week, will be remembered for his untiring environmental efforts

The world today is organized on the strength of infrastructure and production capacities that are the result of several centuries of accumulation and have very long life cycles.

Changing this system and transitioning to new energy sources, while maintaining as much as possible what fossil fuels have helped to build, requires method and planning, the operational model of the Chinese system.

"This is the vision behind the European Green Deal," Mauro Petriccione, the European Commission's top climate official, told this writer in the summer of 2019.

This week, the world received the sad news that Petriccione, who led the effort to fast-track the transformation of the European economies as the EC's director-general for climate action since 2018, passed away suddenly at the age of 65.

For long, Petriccione had been dedicated to climate act