(Finance) – “Today it emerged a confirmation that is also a bet. The confirmation is that there is an important part of the Italian economy, increasingly numerous, which is investing in the environment, on the green, on the green transition. Today more than a third of businesses have made investments in this direction, therefore renewable sources and energy saving, waste recovery and process and product innovation and these companies in the manufacturing field are almost half”. Ermete Realacci, President of the Symbola Foundation, on the occasion of the presentation of the 15th GreenItaly Report.
“Why do they do it? Is there a growing sensitivity? Yes, but there is also…conviction and verification that those who go in this direction do better, innovates more, exports more and produces more jobs. In short, if we want, it is the confirmation of what President Mattarella said in Bonn”, continues Realacci.
“The president said that the problem is very serious and we need to act immediately. It is said, in technical terms, sadaptation to climate change and therefore in Italy this means, we see it from Emilia to Veneto up to the drought in Sicily, too reaccelerate policies that we may have implemented with little effectiveness in the past. For example, in Sicily there is certainly a shortage of water but there is also above all a disorganization in the use of water. And the same is true in many parts of Italy where unregulated overbuilding has made the territory more fragile. And then, President Mattarella continued, that this idea that there is one contradiction between the green transition and the competitiveness of businesses is wrong, the opposite is true. That is, fully accepting this challenge will make our businesses more competitive. Here I would say in this 15th Report, like the 14 that preceded it, that it does not talk about what we should do but about what we Italy is already doing it. It confirms this thing, that if Italy acts, Italy is a very strong country”, concludes Realacci.