Adnkronos Rome, May 14 (Adnkronos) – “The European Green Deal was an extraordinary intuition on the part of the European Commission to make the Old Continent more competitive. It was only a second-rate decarbonization plan, but if we do everything that was already included in the Green Deal five years ago to provide for energy independence and the hoarding of raw materials by the old continent, this will make the European economy and industry much more competitive internationally.
If we demonize it, ideologically, we want to somehow condemn Europe to depend on other continents and that would be a serious mistake."
So said Stefano Ciafani, president of Legambiente, during the conference 'A strong Europe is the Europe of the Green Deal: competitive, respectful and independent', on the occasion of the two-day event of Fondazione Ecosistemi at the Compraverde Buygreen Forum in Rome.
“The GPP continues to be a fundamental piece of the circular economy, there is no ecological transition without a circular economy and there is no circular economy without green purchasing – he explains – Unfortunately, on the one hand, the country continues to make steps, not very fast, but still forward on the issue of the differentiation of urban waste or of productive origin, on the construction of recycling plants, especially in the center-south, on the other hand, what is still missing is the fundamental link of green purchasing to create new opportunities for those who make products by recycling material that comes from the recovery and separate collection chains".
"This problem can only be solved if green procurement becomes a priority for public administrations, which must be trained and must train people who work on this, because it is a complex matter, which requires skills that can be built, but if the Municipalities, the Regions, the popular contracting authorities do not believe in the centrality of this industrial chain, the effort that has been made in recent years will always be made", he concludes.