by Alessio Sciurpa From 1st to 3rd of April, the Fair of Rome will host Ecopolis, international summit on the metropolitan areas sustainability, sponsored by Chamber of Commerce and Fair of Rome, under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic.
The appointment follows on from a simple consideration: for the first time in history more than half of world population lives in urban areas and it is estimated that in 2030 nearly 5 billion people will live in cities.Urban environment is therefore, indisputably, the living environment of Man and assumes the role of real laboratory for the pursuit of sustainability. Every city is now experimenting new ways to manage public goods and questions of public interest (water saving, waste management, air safety, etc..), but only by sharing knowledge and experience exchanges, it will be possible to start a new course and a shared strategy to preserve and improve the quality of life, promoting sustainable development. From these principles arose Ecopolis, which aims to integrate the information on migration flows towards the urban areas, with an interest in renewing the debate on the 'ideal city' of today and tomorrow: not just a philosophical concept, but a set of answers and innovative solutions to current problems.
Ecopolis is divided in seven thematic areas : energy, waste, mobility, water, urban nature, urban design, environmental health. In addition to these, identified from the Green City Declaration (World Environment Day - San Francisco 2005), there is the governance, cross-section but decisive, considering the role of Strategic Planning of large Metropolitan areas. The full program of the event is on the official website.
It is also Interesting the approach to the event, considering the proliferation of event-related environmental issues: «Before launching this new event - the organizers explain - we have achieved a benchmarking of over 250 international trade fairs and events dedicated to sustainability issues. There are certainly many valid appointments in this sector all over the world, but focusing on individual issues; Ecopolis is the first European event which sets the ambitious aim to accommodate in a single event companies from different sectors of sustainability, through the 'fil rouge' of cities’ environmental management».
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