意大利：摘掉領帶抑制全球變暖
Italy says take off your tie to help the planet
Want to help fight global warming? Take off your tie, says the Italian health ministry.
Want to help fight global warming? Take off your tie, says the Italian health ministry.
It has urged employers to let their staff dress casually at work in the summer so the air conditioning can be turned down.
"Taking your tie off immediately lowers the body temperature by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius," the ministry said in a statement. "Allowing a more sensible use of air conditioning yields electricity savings and protects the environment."
It called on all public and private offices to let employees wear no tie during heatwaves like the one that has brought Africa-like temperatures to many parts of Italy this week.
The move echoes a similar initiative from Italy's biggest oil group, ENI, which told its staff earlier this month they need not wear a tie at work.
Tie makers, however, were left hot under the collar.
"Italy confirms that it is a strange country," Flavio Cima said in a letter to financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore under the headline: "I, tie maker, am responsible for global warming".
"We can now happily continue with our lifestyle, using cars, consuming fuel, heating and cooling our homes at leisure. On one condition: we should not wear a tie ," he wrote.
"I should have listened to my friends and become an oil producer instead."
Italy is one of the European Union's worst performers on the pollution front and is among the EU countries expected to exceed their greenhouse gas emission targets.
想爲遏制全球變暖出一份力嗎？聽聽意大利衛生部的意見：摘掉你的領帶。
意大利衛生部日前敦促公司老闆們允許員工夏季上班時的着裝可以隨意一些，這樣就可以把空調調低一點。
衛生部在一份聲明中說：“摘下領帶會讓你的體溫立刻下降2至3攝氏度。合理使用空調能夠省電和保護環境。”
意大利的很多地區在本週都遭到了熱浪襲擊，溫度已攀升到“非洲水平”。衛生部呼籲所有的公共部門及私營企業允許員工在這樣的酷暑天氣可以不打領帶上班。
之前，意大利最大的石油集團ENI已推出了與此類似的一項舉措，該公司於本月早些時候告知員工上班時不用打領帶。
而這一舉措則讓意大利的領帶製造商們大爲不滿。
弗拉維奧·西瑪給Il Sole 24 Ore財經日報寫了封題爲“我，一個領帶製造商，來爲全球變暖買單”的信，他在信中說：“意大利證明了它是個奇怪的國家。”
“我們仍可以快樂的繼續我們的生活--開車出行、消耗燃料、隨意地調節家裏的溫度。但只有一個條件：不能戴領帶。”
“看來我早應該聽朋友們的勸告，改行做石油生產商。”
意大利在環境污染方面是歐盟表現最差的國家之一，而且是歐盟成員國中溫室氣體排放量預計會超標的國家之一。
