Taxes on energy in Italy have fallen by almost a quarter in the last decade while greenhouse gas emissions have soared, environmental group Legambiente said on Friday, calling for greater action against climate change.In its annual report on the state of the environment, Italy’s leading green group said successive Italian governments had failed to discourage growing energy consumption or encourage renewable power such as wind and solar.

Italy’s emissions of greenhouse gas — the main one being carbon dioxide from energy use — rose 12.1 percent between 1990 and 2005, whereas Italy has to reduce them by 6.5 percent over the 2008-2012 period under the Kyoto Protocol.

The report showed that while countries like Britain and Germany had increased energy tax and reduced emissions, Italian energy taxes, which were the highest in western Europe in 1995, had fallen 24 percent 10 years later.

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