Sergio Costa

{{short description|Italian military official and politician|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{For|the co-founder of Costa Coffee|Sergio Costa (businessman)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Sergio Costa | honorific_prefix = Honorable | image = Sergio Costa 2019.jpg | image_size = | office = Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies | term_start = 19 October 2022 | term_end = | president = Lorenzo Fontana | office1 = Minister of the Environment | term_start1 = 1 June 2018 | term_end1 = 13 February 2021 | prime_minister1 = Giuseppe Conte | predecessor1 = Gian Luca Galletti | successor1 = Roberto Cingolani<br>{{small|(Ecological Transition)}} | office2 = Member of the Chamber of Deputies | term_start2 = 13 October 2022 | term_end2 = | constituency2 = Naples-Fuorigrotta | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|4|22|df=y}} | birth_place = Naples, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | party = Five Star Movement {{small|(since 2022)}} | spouse = | children = | alma_mater = University of Naples Federico II | profession = Forest Carabinieri official }} '''Sergio Costa''' (born 22 April 1959) is an Italian military official and politician, who served in the government of Italy as Minister of the Environment between 2018 and 2021. He is a member of the Five Star Movement.

==Biography== Costa was born in Naples on 22 April 1959. In 1983 he graduated in Agricultural science at the University of Naples Federico II.

Between 2006 and 2008 he was in the staff of the Minister for the Environment Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio during the Prodi II Cabinet.<ref>[http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2013/12/30/manager-dirigenti-professori-verdi-non-appassiscono-mai.html Manager, dirigenti e professori i Verdi non appassiscono mai]</ref>

===Military career=== He was Commander of the Provincial Police of Naples, with the title of Manager, until 7 April 2009. In 2009 he passed to the State Forestry Corps; from 2009 to 2010 he was regional commander of the Basilicata, and vice commander from 2010 to 2011. Subsequently, he was Provincial Commander of Naples from 2011 to 2014 and Regional Commander of Campania from 2014 to 2016. Inserted in the ranks of the Carabinieri, after the incorporation of the Forestry Corps, from 1 January 2017 to 31 May 2018 he was Regional Commandant of forest carabinieri of Campania, with the rank of Brigadier general.

===Minister of the Environment=== On 25 February 2018, Luigi Di Maio (leader of the Five Star Movement) indicated Sergio Costa as Minister of the Environment of his possible future government team.<ref>[http://www.lastampa.it/2018/02/25/italia/di-maio-proporr-il-generale-sergio-costa-a-ministero-dellambiente-3Pqf45j0UCGykoNAqySfJI/pagina.html Di Maio svela la squadra: “Il generale Costa all’Ambiente e tre donne nei ministeri chiave”]</ref> Finally, on 1 June 2018, Costa was officially appointed Minister of the Environment of the Conte I Cabinet. He was later re-confirmed in the Conte II Cabinet.

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