TARANTO – With 120 speakers, 34 sponsoring bodies and institutions, 16 partner companies and collaborations with companies of the caliber of Edison Next and CTE Calliope and Eni, a technical-scientific committee chaired by Vito Felice Uricchio (Extraordinary Commissioner for urgent reclamation interventions, environmentalization and redevelopment of the Taranto area) with 70 participants, over 100 streaming links for the international session (about thirty countries involved, including Peru, Brazil, Morocco, USA, Austria, Greece, Bangladesh and, of course, Italy ), the second edition of the Taranto Eco Forum has been archived.
The event was organized by Eurota ETS and RemTech Expo with the high patronage of the European Parliament and in collaboration with the Municipality of Taranto. The common thread of this edition was the right transition, expressed through eight thematic areas. The second and last day of the event was characterized by the in-depth analysis dedicated to the “Manifesto of Science”, recently presented in Rome by the Italian Scientists Association. Among the qualified interventions, moderated yesterday morning by the director of the «Gazzetta», Mimmo Mazza, that of Vito Felice Uricchio, president of the Tef technical-scientific committee, as mentioned.
«In these two intense and content-rich days – Uricchio commented – we have received many requests which will be taken into consideration. This annual exchange is important as it updates us on the initiatives that take place on the international scene and which can also be implemented in the Taranto area. For an increasingly just and concrete transition, a concreteness in the sense of which we should act with everyone’s contribution.” Uricchio entered into the merits of the activities of his role as Extraordinary Commissioner for urgent reclamation, environmentalization and redevelopment interventions in the Taranto area. «We are starting with this new phase and I hope that the mission structure that will allow us to operate as soon as possible can be established as soon as possible. Reclamation – added Commissioner Uricchio – is not just exclusively remediation of environmental matrices. It is certainly essential to reclaim the soil, underground water and surfaces, but it is also important to start a process of cultural remediation of the entire territory and we are working very effectively on this. In this sense we have also started a participatory process that makes strong use of the scientific world and in particular of the University of Bari – he added -, and we have defined a program that has been shared at various levels: from the Ministry of the Environment, to Puglia Region, to the municipal administrations. By using resources well – concluded Uricchio – we can do a lot.”
The organizers of the Taranto Eco Forum are satisfied. «A truly extraordinary second edition – declared Silvia Paparella, delegated councilor of Ferrara Expo and general manager of RemTech Expo – with many participants coming from all over the national territory. The legacy and responsibility that we bring home from this edition is an enormous wealth of knowledge, but which we have already imagined translating into actual projects that will add value to this territory”.
«Tef 2024 confirms itself as a consolidated laboratory of ideas and projects – concluded Patrick Poggi, president of Eurota ETS – but it also expresses an additional element: the relationships and networks that we have built in these two years continue to grow and bring to the territory investments that will be tangible.”
