Environment and Energy

The environmental challenge is a transversal one, and it underlies the whole of Agenda 2030: How can we hope to eradicate hunger or to achieve quality education, peaceful societies and gender equality without a healthy planet?

Sustainable development does not involve just reducing consumption of raw materials, water and energy. It is also necessary to promote the reuse of waste and the circularisation of the economy, and at the same time to restore the ecosystems that have been damaged.

To achieve these transformations, we all have before us the great challenge of educating ourselves on the transition to responsible consumption, developing technologies that allow more efficient use of resources and establishing the systems of governance needed to put solutions into practice where they are most needed.

All these inescapable transformations require change in every individual as well as collective action: for this reason we shall see in the Conference how we can face up to these challenges together through the visions of the various different sectors of society (private, public, universities and so on). Let’s act now. Together.