Dec 07 2008
G8 to a zero impact on the environment
To preserve the natural environment of La Maddalena, both in the work
preparation and implementation of the works necessary for the event, both in at the summit of management, are and will adopt a series of measures,techniques and solutions designed with the specific goal of reducing the impact of the G8 for the environment.
In the selection of building materials has respected the tradition of local work with materials found on site, with extensive use of granite in particular and schist stone, used for the coating of reinforced concrete construction, as has been done in centuries past for the construction of infrastructure defensive, with the result - so important for military purposes - for better mimetizzare and confused with the jagged landscape of the islands. Today this technique of using technological solutions that reduce consumption
of buildings within the same time, the landscape places.
Great care is asking for energy supply. The G8 will maximum possible use of renewables such as solar, that prospect may fuel a project for energy independence La Maddalena. The “peak” of power, inevitably very high in day’s central event, including the request of many that television from all over the world will reach the seat of the G8, will be still covered for the most part by electricity carried on
Gallurese from the coast through an underwater power line.
Particular attention is paid to the issue of cycle management of waste. The collection on the island is already a reality, as a result of initiatives Point taken by the city and by Park. For the G8 is to reach thresholds collection optimal. Already all the remnants of the
construction activities, renovation and reuse of buildings are functional at G8 been transferred to facilities in Sardinia. The G8 will not leave behind rubble and waste of any kind.
Even for transport will be used mainly to transport electric traction,
especially in the central area of the event, also experiencing hybrid models of boats being implemented by companies and Groups of Italian shipbuilding.
Following these lines, the G8 seeks to promote the growth of the archipelago economic activities, especially related to tourism, indicating a development compatible with the environment. The Magdalene and the other islands Archipelago may aspire to become a pole of attraction stronger the Mediterranean only on condition that they not repeat the mistakes made by many other tourist destinations, and outside Europe, which now pay terms of decline and loss of attractiveness the alteration of the enviroment in the name of the economy.
Despite all efforts, we already know that above all the tansportation needs of thousands of people involved in the budget will produce a passive on the atmospheric emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Ne will be exactly the amount, to compensate and return to the zero G8 environmental balance by planting new trees, partly in the same Sardinia, partly in sub-Saharan Africa.
A logical choice, that, for an event that gathers together countries from every part the world to find effective solutions to reduce the imbalances that exist today between levels and lifestyles of the peoples of the earth and to find new ways of Aid to developing countries, as necessary conditions for justice any objective and hope of peace.
