(Finance) – On the occasion of Sustainable Development Festival promoted by ASviSThe Savings Museum Intesa Sanpaolo in collaboration with Environment Parkpromoted the experiential laboratory “Heavy Climate – Heavy Climate” to address the complex issue of the climate crisis.
The initiative – explains the note – actively involved i top management of local authorities, public administrations, trade associations and associations in a role playing that led them to reflect on the climate issue and the difficulties that the various governments are experiencing in identifying and implementing consistent policies.
The event, developed in the logic of edutainment, aims to promote discussion and comparison on sustainability, a key issue for our future. After the introductory greetings of Matthew BeccutiChief Executive Officer Environment Park e Jeanne Paladin, Director and curator of the Savings Museum, the workshop offered the participants an overview of the methods of communicating sustainability, an essential aspect for raising awareness and involving citizens. Following the laboratory led by Luciano Canova, economist and science popularizer, it allowed to simulate a negotiation between the relevant players in the economic and political system. Participants in the workshop, divided into groups, represented different stakeholders crucial for the energy transition: governments of rich countries, governments of low-income countries, sectors of commerce and industry, agriculture and forestry, representatives of the clean energy sector, representatives of the conventional energy sector, environmental activists.
“Talking about environmental sustainability for the Savings Museum it has become a fundamental element because the management of scarce resources, whether natural or economic, follows similar logics. We experimented with MIT simulation labs with high school kids and found that what might seem obvious often isn’t. With this workshop we thought it would be interesting to offer this opportunity to local policy makers, so that they can experience the interaction of groups with different and contrasting interests in achieving an objective that is increasingly shared by the public. We found in Environment Park a sensitive and attentive interlocutor with whom to share the organizational enterprise and we asked Luciano Canova, who collaborates with the Museum on various activities, to lead it, convinced that he was the right person to create an original and educational experience for everyone,” he said Jeanne PaladinDirector and curator of the Savings Museum.
“Thanks to initiatives like this, local stakeholders can share experiences and visions of the future: teamwork is the key to tackling the challenges that await us in terms of sustainability”, he underlined Matthew Beccuti, Environment Park Chief Executive Officer.
The laboratory – closes the note – “has thus allowed participants to enhance their bargaining skills through the simulation of negotiation rounds characterized by an increasing degree of complexity in terms of content and relationships, experimenting with different negotiating styles to identify a point of convergence between misaligned and sometimes conflicting interests”.