The goal is to make young people, schools, families, companies and entire communities protagonists of the protection and restoration of nature in Italy: Re-Party-I love is the new environmental project born from the collaboration between the Jova Beach Party, Intesa Sanpaolo e WWF Italy presented yesterday at the University of Milan Bicocca.
Three main pillars of the program: beach cleaning, natural reconstruction projects and activities education in universities and schools.
Thanks to a great campaign by fundraising on Intesa Sanpaolo's For Funding crowdfunding platform (ForFunding.it/Ripartyamo) around 3 million euros have been donated so far, which will be used to clean 20 million square meters of beaches, lakes, rivers and seabeds; to carry out 6 macro actions of habitat restoration; arrange 8 meetings in Italian universities and numerous workshop in schools capable of involving a total of 100.000 students.
Of all those who contribute to the fundraiser, 4.000 people will have the opportunity to participate in two concerts that Jovanotti will be held at the Atlantico in Rome and at the Alcatraz in Milan on 12 and 14 November.
“Where can our country restart from if not from taking care, with love, of the health of our territory and of the new generations. Well, when we imagined Ri-Party-Amo we thought of something capable of activating the best energies and involving them in one of the largest mobilizations ever attempted to clean up plastic from Italian beaches and set up natural restoration projects: a concrete example of how can we build a world with more nature,” he said Donatella Bianchi, President WWF Italy. “But there can be no future without young people, those we will interact with in schools and universities and together with whom we will try to chart the course of sustainability for today's and tomorrow's challenges, because the next few years will be crucial for building a decarbonised and 100% renewable future, a future in which to reverse the loss of biodiversity and protect the nature that underpins our health. This project is part of the WWF's strategy to make a contribution to addressing the major environmental emergencies that are part of our present today and which we must all deal with together. For Nature, for Us”.
«Ri-Party-Amo is a unique environmental project, which synergistically combines the strengths, energies and skills of three excellent partners: Intesa Sanpaolo, which has long been engaged in an assiduous and coherent way on the issues of sustainability, social responsibility, inclusive development; Lorenzo Jovanotti, who chose it as a green project in the new eagerly awaited edition of the Jova Beach Party; And WWF Italy, which has developed an articulated program of interventions of great impact on natural habitats and environmental education” he said Andrew Lecce, Head of the Intesa Sanpaolo Impact Department. “All those who have the future of our country at heart, however, can be protagonists of this extraordinary initiative and contribute to its success, for this reason the result of the dedicated fundraising is particularly important, which already reaches 3 million euros, reached in a few months from the activation on For Funding, the crowdfunding platform that the bank has made available to Ri-Party-Amo”.
Building the future at the service of sustainable development, in favor of the environment, the younger generations and a truly inclusive society is one of the pillars of the new Business Plan with which Intesa Sanpaolo intends to strengthen its leadership in the ESG area: in for the three-year period 2022-2025, the Group has undertaken to provide new credit to the green economy and the ecological transition for 88 billion euros and 25 billion euros for social lending."
Beaches, lakes, rivers and seabeds to clean up
The first pillar of Ri-Party-Amo concerns the cleaning of beaches, lakes, rivers and seabeds from plastic and the waste that is polluting them. In the Mediterranean alone, around 230 tonnes of plastic end up every year: the equivalent of 500 containers full of plastic waste a day.
Da September 2022, for an entire year, it will be possible to participate in 24 major initiatives of mobilization and beyond 2.000 activities which aim to clean up 20 million square meters of beaches, lakes, rivers and seabeds, involving over 10 volunteers. The cleaning events will be moments of celebration and socializing in the name of environmental protection: a great mobilization in which families, schools and young people from all over Italy will be able to participate, through a dedicated platform to which it will be possible to register from June.
The first two mobilizations will be the 18 and the 25 September 2022, about 2 million square meters of beaches, lakes and rivers will be cleaned with these alone.
Rebuilding damaged nature
Ri-Party-Amo will also be a pilot project to show how, through naturalistic engineering and natural restoration works, benefits can be produced permanent environments in some of the most fragile and degraded environments.
Four habitats object of the intervention: wetlands, rivers, lakes ed dune ecosystems.
First of all the wetlands: key elements of the water cycle that play a role of ecological link of great importance, including flood control.
Then there are the rivers, which in Italy are about 1.200, of which 41% is well below a good ecological status. Add i lakes (only 20% in Italy is in good condition) and the dunes which, together with the sandy coasts, are fragile environments currently exposed to numerous pressures and particularly threatened in the near future. The Mediterranean basin, for example, is one of the world's biodiversity hotspots but, at the same time, it is one of the regions of the world most subject to strong historical anthropic pressure.
Thanks to Ri-Party-Amo some heavily damaged natural environments will be reconstructed through 6 major engineering works nature in as many areas, restoring habitats and improving usability by local communities.
The areas in which the interventions will be located are the dune habitats of Torre Flavia (RM) and Marina di Ravenna, the wetlands of Albenga (SV), the banks and neighboring areas of the Seveso river in Bresso (MI), the Bosco of Policoro (MT) and the dunes of Castel Volturno (CE).
Commitment to future generations
Aware young people, trained teachers and responsible leaders will be the allies of RiParty-amo, which has chosen environmental education as its third pillar of activity.
8 meetings in Italian universities will be organized by Intesa Sanpaolo and WWF Italy, in which the project and participation in the Jova Beach Party 2022.
As many as 4.000 young people and students will be involved in multidisciplinary and practical workshops on environmental issues to meet experts and volunteers involved in the project.
20 scholarships will be guaranteed for the online course “The Biodiversity Manager” for the 2022/2023 academic year, promoted by the European Institute for Innovation and Sustainability (EIIS). Along with scholarships, the WWF Italy will activate 4 training volunteering experiences at the WWF headquarters in Rome, lasting 6 months, for the most deserving students.
The Ri-Party-Amo educational program for elementary and middle schools throughout Italy will be financed, through the involvement of 4.000 classes, 100.000 pupils and as many families. The educational support will be guided by teaching materials in line with the interventions of the project and the itinerary will develop outdoors and in natural environments, with creative and group activities, in which children and teenagers will be able to discover, observe and learn about the environment.
