Law 199/2025 (Finance Law 2026)

The climate-related provisions of Italy’s 2026 Finance Law (paragraphs 774–782) focus on implementing the Social Climate Plan under Regulation (EU) 2023/955, which establishes the EU’s Social Climate Fund. The law sets up the financial and administrative framework to receive EU resources and national co-financing, channel them through the Ministry of Economy and Finance (including the renamed Next Generation EU-Italy treasury account), and allocate them to central administrations responsible for climate-related measures and investments. It allows these resources to finance actions addressing housing hardship, the “Piano Casa Italia,” sustainable mobility under the National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Mobility, and measures to combat energy poverty for vulnerable households, linking climate transition policies with social protection objectives.