Municipal administration of Legnano, Confindustria and Confartigianato Alto Milanese and the territorial association of Legnano dthe Confcommercio Union: This is how the Legnano delegation was made up which, in recent days, was guest in Porto on the occasion of the Intelligent Cities Challenge Conference.
The event, promoted by the European Commission to guide the 64 European cities selected towards the green and digital transition of local economies, saw the councilor for
sustainability Luca Benetti, the general director of Confindustria Alto Milanese Andrea Pontani and the secretaries of Confartigianato Alto Milanese and Unione Confcommercio Legnano Giacomo Rossini and Diego Panigo.
The aim of the conference was «to develop and encourage a heated debate between city administrators selected and businesses of those realities on the concrete actions to be developed with a view to the environmental sustainability of the urban system, social well-being and the sustainable development of the entrepreneurial fabric.
«If it is true, as Alexander Langer argued, that the ecological transition will only take place when it is socially desirable, then, to carry out this process at a territorial level, close collaboration between the municipal administration and private stakeholders is essential – underlines Benetti – . And that’s whytogether with the trade associations, we are working on a change of paradigm: transform the Municipality’s energy and environmental policies into community policies, therefore spread throughout the city, seeking so-called win-win actions, i.e. capable of simultaneously bringing an environmental benefit to the community and an economic benefit to the entrepreneurial fabric of the area . In the speech I gave in front of various European political and business leaders I illustrated the path that in the city, as an administration, we have undertaken with these partners of ours along the lines of reducing energy consumption, producing energy from renewable sources and the optimization of waste management from a circular economy perspective and I focused on the concrete and specific projects linked to these directions that we are planning together with local stakeholders. These, in an initial phase, concern one widespread dissemination of company energy diagnoses And a specific analysis of logistics linked to packaging management, as well as, more generally, the transmission of a culture on the correct differentiation of waste and its reduction; themes on which we are also working with various universities in the Lombardy area, with the National Packaging Consortium (Conai) and with the National Agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable development (ENEA)”.
