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Costa, the EU asks to switch to the circular economy

2020-09-26T12:59:44.182Z


"Europe is asking to change the paradigm and move from the linear economy to the circular economy, which is the green economy. Therefore it asks us to make investments with huge resources in the green system which means accompanying companies in a new system putting in not only the economic value, but also that of ecology. (ANSA)


FLORENCE - "Europe is asking to change the paradigm and move from the linear economy to the circular economy, which is the green economy. So it asks us to make investments with huge resources in the green system which means accompanying companies in a new system by putting in not only the economic value, but also that of ecology. The Recovery Plan will have this type of orientation ".

This was stated by the Minister of the Environment, Sergio Costa, on the sidelines of the Civil Economy Festival, underway in Florence.



For the circular economy, helping businesses on credit


"The European Union tells us at least that 37% of all" Recovery Plan "investments must be green, but I consider that an almost obvious fact. The element is how to decline this element. Moving towards the circular economy , in concrete terms, it means helping businesses because all the leading scholars say that if we want to go in that direction, the so-called business risk increases because there is no tradition on the circular economy ".

This was stated by the Minister of the Environment, Sergio Costa, speaking at the works of the second day of the Festival of Civil Economy, underway in Florence.

"So, as soon as we started talking about the Recovery Plan - he added - we set ourselves the goal of helping that business system to have a 'generative pact' because it generates work then it will generate integral ecology".

According to Costa, it is necessary "to help the credit system with a risk index that the State takes on, thus helping the business system", because "otherwise we are rhetoric without substance, that is, we will preach to the entrepreneur to make a circular economy, but then when he goes to ask for credit, considering the high risk, he will not be able to obtain it and will return to the linear economy ".



I ask Regions for commitment on 4 elements


"I am not referring only to Tuscany, I ask all Regions, obviously within the limits of the capacity of the Minister of the Environment, to intervene on: water purification, hydrogeological instability, coastal erosion and quality of air. This alone would be enough to have not a region of Tuscany even more beautiful than it already is, but an Italy even more beautiful ".

This was stated by the Minister of the Environment, Sergio Costa, on the sidelines of the Festival of Civil Economy, underway in Florence until tomorrow. "We are one of the most fragile countries for these four elements - he added - and we are also subjected to European infringement. So not only would we gain by exiting the European infringement, but we would have an even more beautiful country ".


Waste: on eco-bales confidently close by autumn


On the eco-bales "research has resumed and all those that had already been identified have been removed from the sea and sorted out. The others are now surrounding them to intervene. It is clear that we we said that by the end of the year we have to close. Let's deal with bad weather, for example these days, where you can't go into the water. But the Port Authority and the Civil Protection are doing a great job, so I think that it is going fast and I am confident that we can close it even before the autumn ends. "

Thus the Minister of the Environment Sergio Costa, on the sidelines of the Festival of Civil Economy, underway in Florence until tomorrow. 

Bad weather: helping municipalities on hydrogeological instability


On bad weather there is the theme of "hydrogeological instability which is perhaps the main element to intervene not when the damage is caused, but to intervene preventively. We already have over 7 billion euros deposited at the Ministry of the Environment, with the Recovery plan we have imagined that we also have other resources; we have accelerated, with the regulation on simplification and with the next regulation of the environmental link, the executive planning "of interventions" because the Municipalities, the Region valid, the Ministry is finance. So if the money is there and the projects are not done, we need to help the Municipalities to make them ".

This was said by the Minister of the Environment, Sergio Costa, at the Festival of Civil Economy in progress in Florence.

"I have made available to the Municipalities that have greater difficulties - added Costa - the in-house structure of the Ministry of the Environment which is Sogesid, an environmental design engineering company, to say 'we help you and we also help you for free'. it seems to me a way not to complain about the deaths or the damage but to prevent them, knowing that unfortunately there will still be calamitous events ".

Source: ansa

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