From the location of fossil fuels to decarbonisation. New perspectives for the Geography of Energy in Italy

The Paris Agreement of 2015 likely charts the beginning of the current energy transition, with new environmental, economic, and social challenges for our society. Geography is a multidisciplinary discipline covering several areas of study and frequently dealing with energy issues. Since the early 1990s, the Italian specialty group on the Geography of Energy has been working to advance these studies on quite heterogeneous topics (i.e., fossil fuels, geopolitics, renewable energy, governance of energy policies etc.), as we also see in the articles of this special issue of «Geotema». As was the case thirty years ago, still today «geographers want to have their say» about these issues, especially now when the Recovery and Resilience Plan calls for the installation of about 70 GW of new renewables by 2030. It is important to be involved in the present debate on the best decarbonisation strategy so as to ensure landscape preservation and local communities’ participation in decision making