Investing in the green economy to revive Italy after the coronavirus crisis. This is the message of the manifesto "Exit from the pandemic with a new Green Deal for Italy", launched on the greendealitalia.it website and signed so far by 110 exponents of companies and business organizations. Among others, Enel, Novamont, Iren, Hera, Acea, Erg and all the main recycling consortia.
"Measures are needed to make our societies, our health systems and our economy more resilient to pandemics, but also to face other threats for our future - reads the document -: first of all the great climate crisis, fueled by a linear economy model with high consumption of fossil energy and waste of natural resources ". The European Recovery Plan should "re-found and relaunch the ambitious European project for an advanced, decarbonised and circular economy with a new Green Deal".
The Green Deal according to the manifesto "enhances the best potential of Italy: those linked to quality production, increasingly greener; those in which it has reached levels of excellence, such as waste recycling, a pillar of the circular economy, efficiency energy and renewable energy sources; those of our model of sustainable agriculture and other activities of the regenerative bioeconomy; those of cities, to be relaunched with a vast urban regeneration program in a green key; those of the important natural capital, necessary for the relaunch of various economic activities such as tourism; those of the transition to low emissions and alternative fuels towards decarbonised, electric and shared mobility and those of digital innovation ". "The stimulus packages to the economy must not increase greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impacts, transferring further costs to our future - concludes the Manifesto -. A new Green Deal is the innovative way to go for the rebirth of Italy" .
