The seventh edition of the Sustainable Development Festival is just around the corner: from 8 to 24 May the event will take place throughout the national territory, with some main stops in Naples, Bologna, Turin, Milan and Rome, to raise awareness in the country on the issues of economic, social, environmental and institutional sustainability. Todays i is held, at Rai Radio in via Asiago in Rome, the press conference to present the Festival. The event was attended by the Presidents of the Alliance, Marcella Mallen and Pierluigi Stefanini, the Scientific Director, Enrico Giovannini, the President of Rai, Marinella Soldi, and representatives of the Festival's partners.
"Sustainability is a transversal concept that includes all ESG issues: thecare of the planet can only be achieved if it is interconnected with social and economic sustainability". With these words, Marinella Soldi, President of Rai, inaugurated the presentation press conference. "No one should be left behind, now we know what we risk if we do not adapt to a sustainable model and we know that this model must be measurable and not abstract. For this reason, Rai must put the younger generations at the centre of its editorial strategy and its daily commitment, to bring them closer and closer to the Public Service with editorial proposals adapted to their sensitivity, competence and interests" continued Soldi.
The Sustainable Development Festival presented today is organized by the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS) with the media partnership of Rai.
The event finally returns to presence, after the lockdown due to the pandemic, and does so with a program full of news, itinerant, based on hundreds of initiatives promoted by civil society in Italy and in the world, divided into five main stages in as many large Italian cities, each dedicated to deepening a different dimension of sustainability.
The social one will be on stage in Naples from 8 to 10 May; the environmental theme will be developed in Bologna from 11 to 14 May; while the economic aspects will be the subject of the Milan stage from 15 to 17 May; the cultural theme will be staged in Torino from 18 to 22 May; finally, the institutional one in Rome on 23 and 24 May, where it will end with a meeting at the Chamber of Deputies, during which the fruit of the 17 days of reflection will be illustrated.