Napoli, a city that symbolizes many environmental hardships, will host the first one on 5 and 6 March Green Symposium national. It will not be a ritual appointment: it is the first of its kind and if it arouses interest it is because Italy can become the top seed in the European green transition.
The Green Symposium will showcase projects, technologies and ideas to help the circular economy grow. According to the promoters (Ricicla TV, Ecomondo, the Institute for Environmental Protection, the Register of Environmental Managers and the Government Commissioner for Reclamation) we should see something concrete, innovative and feasible proposals.
On the other hand, the Minister of the Environment, Sergio Costa, gave his patronage even before his name circulated as a candidate for governor Grillino for the Campania elections in June. Costa will have the opportunity here to present results and objectives, although he is close to a political movement against incinerators, gas pipelines and recycling plants.
Naples is the virtual capital of a South that is struggling to align itself with European standards in waste management and in the main environmental activities. From here, a different path can be taken starting from technologies, on which a part of politics, unfortunately, has ideas that are antithetical to reality.
In a chiaroscuro context, the participation of Assoambiente and its president, Head grain. The organization of environmental companies has said several times that new waste plants are needed and that we need to focus on technologies that have less impact on the territories and health.
Unfortunately, in the South the vast majority of waste is out of virtuous systems, except for the mega incinerator in Acerra branded A2A. Appreciated and contested system, but which has reduced emergencies in the Land of Fires, symbol of a double-sided green Italy, where Papa Francesco will come on May 24th.
Finally, the Symposium will be able to indicate something concrete for public spending. If Conte and the minister for the South, Giuseppe Provenzano, have announced 123 billion of investments for the south, with construction sites already open in September, perhaps it is appropriate to advance part of that money for environmental infrastructure. All spending would benefit, because as Svimez's periodic research shows, what most condemned the South to backwardness was the lack of public works in general and environmental ones in particular. The premises are there. On the other hand, short-range practical actions need to be verified, even more so when they are in the hands of environmentalist political forces.
