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Bologna is about to become the capital of the Environment with #All4TheGreen: over 70 events will be open to the public from June 5 to 12. This series of activities will pave the way to the Environment Ministerial Meeting, scheduled for June 11-12. The entire city - institutions, universities, and businesses - will be involved over the week, in events dedicated to the protection of the environment, to sustainable development and to the circular economy.

 

At the official presentation of the All4TheGreen event schedule, on May 31st, in Bologna, the following participated: Gian Luca Galletti, Minister of the Environment; Stefano Bonaccini, President of Emilia-Romagna Region; Virginio Merola, Mayor of Bologna; Francesco Ubertini, Rector of the University of Bologna; Gian Luca Farinelli, Director of Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna; Giuseppina Gualtieri, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Tper SpA; Enrico Postacchini, President of Marconi Airport in Bologna; Claudio Galli, Senior Advisor Herambiente; Giancarlo Tonelli, General Manager Confcommercio Ascom Bologna; Fabrizio Zago, Managing Director, Building Energy; Luca Brivio, Communications Manager, CONAI; and representatives of Connect4Climate of the World Bank.

 

 

"We have imagined this week of great mobilization in the city as a unique opportunity for common knowledge and awareness," said Minister Galletti. "There is a G7 Environment with many important issues open and moving forward: what needs to be clear is that this decision-making process is not alien to the society, but all of us are at the same level. Institutions and large companies, environmental associations, operators and the university world have chosen to join #All4TheGreen for a goal that is necessarily common: care of the environment, not only as a place of conservation but as a lever of new economic growth. From Bologne - Galletti concludes - I believe this is also a fundamental step for my city: because today it really has the basis for characterizing itself as the place of environmental innovation."

 

 

Mayor Merola announced: "Hosting the G7 Environment will allow Bologna to explain to the world what it is doing in the environmental sphere, starting from the fact that our city was recently chosen to host the Data Center of the European Center for Weather Forecasts In the medium term, with the aim of relaunching collective commitment on the mitigation and adaptation front. In March we launched a Call to Action entitled 'Collaborate in Bologna Resilient City', the results will be displayed in an exhibition that will accompany the events of the G7 and will remain open all summer at Urban Center. Among the appointments, I highlight the day of discussion we organized together with ANCI to arrive at the signing of the 'Bologna Charter for the Environment. Sustainable Development,' a document that engages major cities in our country in achieving important environmental quality objectives."

 

 

President Bonaccini explained: "In Emilia-Romagna, we have put the respect for the environment and a model of sustainable growth at the center of our political action. We have opened the legislature by approving the Circular Economy Act, launching four programming acts - the Regional Waste Plan, the Energy Framework, the one on Air Quality and the Forestry Plan - setting targets that go beyond those set by the EU and will lead to the progressive landing of landfills and the reduction of incinerators; to invest 250 million euros in green economy; energy saving and renewable sources; less traffic in cities; renewing the means of local public transport and promoting electric mobility to have innovative production systems in agriculture; and to enhance the forestry heritage. I add the choice of the zero-zero soil consumption set in the regional law on urban planning we approve by the fall. Hosting the G7 Ambiente in our region, Bologna, confirms the central role of Emilia-Romagna on these issues, as well as the recent choice of Bologna as the center of the European Center for Middle-Sea Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). Possible results through joint work between the institutions, the same synergy that will lead us to sign on the occasion of the G7 Ambiente a very important agreement with the Government and the other three Regions of the Padano Basin - Piedmont, Lombardy and Veneto - for the fight against pollution."

 

 

 

Contact: ufficiostampa@all4thegreen.it