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ITALIAN GOOD NEWS:
GreenItaly 2015
By Fondazione Symbola
The green economy in
Italy is now a seized opportunity, rather than a need
to be. The numbers say
this: those of GreenItaly
2015, the sixth report from
Symbola Foundation and
Unioncamere, promoted
in collaboration with CONAI, which measures and
weighs the strength of the
national green economy.
According to the report,
since the beginning of
the crisis one Italian company out of four has bet
on innovation, research,
design, quality and beauty: the green economy. In
fact, there are 372,000 Italian companies (the 24.5%
of total) in industry and
services sectors that since 2008 have invested, or
will do so this year, in green technologies to reduce
the environmental impact,
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save energy and reduce sponds to 13.2% of total
national employment and
CO2 emissions.
is set to rise again by DeThe green orientation re- cember. In fact, this year
mains a strategic factor 294,200 new hirings will
for Made in Italy: our gre- be linked to green skills:
en economy produces 59% of the demand for la102,497 billion of added bor.
value - 10.3% of the national economy - and 2 mil- Only this year, encouralion 942 thousand green ged by the first signs of
jobs. A figure that corre- recovery, 120,000 Italian