ASSISI (PERUGIA), JANUARY 20 - Building a more human-friendly economy and society capable of courageously facing the climate crisis, thanks to a new alliance between institutions, the economic world, politics, society and culture: it is the objective of the 'Manifesto of Assisi', document "against the climate crisis" which has collected over 1,700 signatures.
"A great page of hope, an epochal, cultural and environmental turning point to move from words to deeds", was underlined during the presentation in Perugia.
In the Umbria Region's Hall of Honor, in fact, the details of the appointment in Assisi (scheduled on January 24 from 9.30, in the Papal Hall of the Sacred Convent) were illustrated to the press and the latest adhesions were presented in addition to those already announced by the President. of the Council, Giuseppe Conte, of the Minister of University and Research, Gaetano Manfredi, and of the President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli. Among the promoters of the Manifesto are the president of the Symbola Foundation, Ermete Realacci, the Custos of the Sacred Convent of Assisi, father Mauro Gambetti, the director of San Francesco magazine, father Enzo Fortunato, the president of Coldiretti, Ettore Prandini, that of Confindustria , Vincenzo Boccia, the CEO of Enel, Francesco Starace, and of Novamont, Catia Bastioli.
"This manifesto, which then outlines a before and after for environmental policies in Italy, could not fail to start from Umbria because it is the result of the green awareness that both Assisi and this region have" said the director of the press room of the Sacro Convento, father Enzo Fortunato.
Umbria, for President Donatella Tesei, "represents a region where, by tackling these concepts, we can move from words to deeds".
That of January 24 in Assisi will be for Realacci an appointment on the environment "stronger than that of the Davos World Economic Forum" because, he explained, "the Assisi Manifesto is a new and very Italian alliance that weaves a network between the economy, culture and research with the contribution of the best technological, institutional, political, social, cultural energies of the country ". (HANDLE).