Who we are
Centro per un Futuro Sostenibile is a foundation whose main purpose is to raise the awareness of the Italian political and economic establishment as well as the general public on the issues of the environment, sustainable development and climate change.
The Centre’s governance bodies are a high-level Scientific Committee - composed among others by the heads in Italy of the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change, the UN Commission awarded with the Nobel Prize in 2007) and a bipartisan Political Committee with MPs representing all the main parties in the Italian Parliament.
Partnerships have been set up with the leading international think tanks of the Global Climate Network together with Center for American Progress and TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute, India).
The Centre aims to develop an important scientific activity and outreach in order to spread our ideas and proposals to the Italian public opinion and to highlight the issues that are crucial for the future of our Planet.
The Centre sees itself on the one hand as a mediator between the world of science and that of politics for the production of effective intervention strategies and on the other hand it looks to the world of business with a view to changing attitudes so that the safeguarding of the environment can be seen as an economic opportunity, as an engine for overcoming the crisis and as a source of jobs.
Centro per un Futuro Sostenibile, created in the 1989 to promote political and institutional events on environmental issues, is now structured as a Foundation and is being relaunched with the aim of contributing to the broadest possible political consensus, based on sound science, in the following areas:
- convergence among political leaders and legislators regarding national strategies and international agreements for combating climate change caused by humans;
- fair and effective dialogue with the scientific community involved in the definition of the real impact of CO2 emissions on the alteration of the Climate;
- qualified information for the public opinion and involvement of the younger generations in the struggle to alert people against the imminent climate threat (given a marked drop in the attention paid to these issues in Italian society);
- a common commitment with the world of business to ensure that technological and manufacturing innovations that are capable of reducing harmful emissions are seen as competitive opportunities;
- initiatives to associate the choices involved in reducing emissions and adapting to the consequences of climate change with the practical choices that individuals, businesses and families can make in their daily lives;
- establishment of goals consistent with European Union commitments and with international agreements.