(Adnkronos) - “Le città sono i destinatari naturali di investimenti che, come abbiamo stimato, potranno essere circa 270 miliardi di euro fino al 2050 e che consentiranno di ridurre di oltre il 50% le emissioni, rispetto alla tendenza dell'incremento delle persone che vivono in città, la produzione che gli stessi avranno”. Lo ha detto il presidente del Consiglio di amministrazione di A2a, Roberto Tasca, parlando del ruolo fondamentale che hanno le città dal punto di vista dell'innovazione, in termini di maggiore sostenibilità e decarbonizzazione, in occasione del Position Paper “Sostenibilità urbana. Decarbonizzazione, elettrificazione e innovazione: opportunità e soluzioni per città future-fit” realizzato da TEHA Group in collaborazione con A2A e il contributo scientifico di ASviS, presentato oggi, nell’ambito della 50° edizione del Forum di Cernobbio, intitolata “Lo scenario di oggi e di domani per le strategie competitive”.
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00:00There are two phenomena that I think we should all consider.
00:09The first is that in demographic terms there is a progressive influx of citizens,
00:14that is, of people who at a certain point lived outside the cities and who lived in the city.
00:19This for, I believe, natural reasons.
00:21That is, cities are basically able to produce a level of social and economic efficiency
00:26that the countryside is not able to sustain.
00:30The other fundamental fact is that by using this production system
00:35we are basically, progressively, having problems of climate change.
00:40Climate change is a fact, we see it here today, especially in these days,
00:46and I believe it is another element on which we must oppose contradictions, resistances.
00:53How do these two elements come together?
00:56It is done by being able to make investments and, above all,
00:59by being able to take advantage of the fact that cities are producers of efficiency.
01:03In what sense?
01:04Well, if you think, for example, about heating a condominium
01:07and think about the difficulty of heating houses that are, on the other hand, scattered in a countryside,
01:11you understand very well immediately what the alveolar effect is and what the consequent effect is.
01:16On the other hand, for example, if we are going to reduce the public transport
01:21that still uses endothermic engines and we move it to electric engines,
01:26we have a progressive reduction.
01:28Cities are the natural recipients of those investments,
01:31which we have estimated could be about 270 billion euros by 2050,
01:37which will allow, in fact, to reduce, compared to the trend we had highlighted before,
01:43that is, the increase in the number of people living in cities,
01:46the production that they themselves will have.
01:48How much will it reduce?
01:50So I think it's an important step.
01:53I'll give you an example just to make it clear.
01:55Today there is a lot of talk about the fact that there is the development of artificial intelligence.
01:59Developing artificial intelligence means, for example,
02:02having many data centers that come to Lombardy
02:05and these data centers will also produce a lot of heat.
02:09We can collect that heat by heating the land and directing it towards the cities.
02:13This means that, for example, many homes will automatically become green.
02:17And I think this is an important fact to consider
02:19in order to have and make a strong contribution to the planet.