Legnano leads the way in terms of sustainability. The city of the Carroccio is in fact in the Guide of Italian Sustainable Municipalities 2024 and a delegation from Legnano was a guest in Porto on the occasion of the Intelligent Cities Challenge Conference, an initiative promoted by the European Commission to guide the 64 European cities selected towards a green and digital transition of local economies.
Guide of sustainable municipalities, there is also Legnano
News from the Network of Sustainable Municipalities (a national non-profit association that promotes policies for environmental, social, cultural and economic sustainability, enhancing good practices and accompanying local administrations in achieving the objectives of the UN Agenda 2030) , the Guide is a true collection of stories of sustainable tourism across the Peninsula. Almost one hundred municipalities and over a thousand good practices described to tell the story of the Italy that tries, the Italy of mayors and local administrators who believe that sustainable development and tourism can go hand in hand.
The Network of Sustainable Municipalities explains:
“In recent years Legnano has been developing a strategy based on the concept of sustainability, which is expressed in various initiatives and good practices reported in the Guide. These range from urban regeneration interventions which have benefited from Pnrr funds intercepted through various tenders and which are structurally redeveloping and from an energy point of view, public buildings, including various historic assets of the City. Among the sustainable initiatives mentioned are Forestami (which allowed the Municipality to be identified for the Superb project), the punctual tariff, the Bicipolitana, and home mobility vouchers. /school home/work. Among the good sustainability practices are participation in the 2023-2025 Intelligent Cities Challenge programme, the carbon neutral circular economy strategy created by the non-profit company Neutalia and the Green and Trade Network”.
Presentation in the library on Saturday 29th
The mayor of Legnano Lorenzo Radice points out:
“Last March we formalized our membership of the Network of Sustainable Municipalities in order to have a discussion table and exchange of good practices with other cities on a topic, that of environmental sustainability, which represents the key to ensuring a future for the new generations. It seemed important to us to be present in the pages of this guide to help make known what we are doing on the subject and promote the image of Legnano in terms of tourism for its important green spaces. In fact, we will talk about this guide very soon; June, in the library park, within the first Urban Sustainability Festival, the general director of the Network of Sustainable Municipalities will present the publication”.
In Porto for the Intelligent Cities Challenge
As regards Legnano’s participation in the Intelligent Cities Challenge Conference held in Porto on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 June, the delegation included the municipal administration, Confindustria and Confartigianato Alto Milanese and the Legnano territorial association of Unione Confcommercio. The appointment saw the councilor for Sustainability present at the conference, held at the Palácio da Bolsa Luca Benettithe 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 close discussion between the administrators of the selected cities and the companies 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.
“Transforming municipal policies into community policies”
Councilor Benetti underlines:
“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. And it is for this is that, together with the trade associations, we are working on a paradigm shift: transforming the Municipality’s policies on energy and environmental matters into community policies, therefore spread throughout the city fabric, seeking those so-called win-win actions, i.e. capable to bring at the same time an environmental benefit to the community and an economic benefit to the entrepreneurial fabric of the territory. In the speech I gave in front of various European political and business leaders I illustrated the path that the city, as an Administration, have undertaken with these partners of ours. on the guidelines of reducing energy consumption, the production of 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 guidelines that we are planning together with the stakeholders of local interests. These, in an initial phase, concern a widespread dissemination of energy diagnoses of companies and a specific analysis of the logistics linked to the management of packaging, 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)”.
