Despite all economic difficulties faced in the last years, Italy managed in a high objective, to establish itself in the Green Economy.
More often, it happens to hear about innovation and eco-sustainable conversion for factories and it is normal to think about its costs, the reality tells us that advantages are more. Green economy shouldn’t be managed as a cost, but is should be handled as a possibility that can generate incomes and opportunities and Italy, as we will see, is excellent in this point as much as it can be the driving force for all Europe and an opportunity of development for developing countries.
Important data comes from Symbola’s Foundation report that highlights how Italy is one of the countries with lower levels of waste emissions during the production of goods and services. Even more, it is registered that, in the same product, Italian factories consume less energies and produce less emissions than Germany, countries considered forefront.
Italy isn’t only the leader in Europe in green economy, but has a great positions worldwide. We are a society with one of the most sustainable economies in the world, with China, Germany, South Korea and Japan, while the United States, France and Great Britain are less satisfactory.
Which are the data on Italian green economy? Factories with a green production are 372 hundreds, among them 31.000 just in 2015 with an increase of the 36% related to the year before. Eco-factories represent ¼ non-agricultural factories and the 10,3% of the production. The highest rate of green factories are of the manufacturing sector that counts 32% of the enterprises sensible to environment. This has a positive impact also on occupational levels, though, enterprises search always more for specified capacities in that sphere and new-hired people with green capacities are 294.000.
Green economy does not mean only working opportunities. In fact, it is a new philosophy of life that involves not only Italy but also other parts of the world. From Symbola’s report comes out that enterprises that invest in green economy have a higher level of exports, related to those that choose differently. The former ones, in fact, have the 18,9% of experts, related to 10,7% of the enterprises that have non-eco-sustainable productions. These data are shocking if related to the manufacturing sector, where exports are 43,4%, related to 25,5% of non-green.
The turnover of green factories has increased in 19,6% of the cases of green factories, while for traditional factories have increased only in 13,4% of the cases. Green economy factories are characterized also by innovation, in fact they launch new typology of productions, due also to the fact that they hire energetic engineers, biological agriculture of energetic implants with a low environmental impact installers, so people highly qualified to foster innovation.
Not only Italy is characterized by a eco-sustainable production, but also by low levels of waste production and recycling. In the first case since 2008 the reduction of factory waste was of 5 tons of waste per year. In Europe 163 million of tons of waste were recycled, among these 25 millions were Italian, a high percentage. Doing a brief confrontation: despite the dimension of Germany related to Italy, the former recycles only 23 million tons. In practical terms recycling allowed to save 15 million tons of oil and has reduced CO2 emissions of 52 million tons.
The primacy for the reduction of pollutions is also thanks to the agro-alimentary production that is able to be eco-sustainable without loosing its productivity and its identity, but even gaining awards: for 89 products Italy has the primacy in the world and for 27 of those they don’t have rivals worldwide. In short excellence, quality and environmental safety.
All these short steps forward make the Italian economy peer among leaders not only in Europe, that in this case has to give the primacy away to a southern state, but also in the world. These data say that green economy could be an opportunity for developing countries that could enter the market following the Italian example.
