Sustainability
We talk more and more frequently about environmental sustainability, the correct exploitation of resources and the reduction of polluting emissions. Responsible interaction with the environment is essential to continue producing goods and services and at the same time safeguard the planet, making it available for future generations. Everything revolves around the concept of sustainability and its different declinations. The term “sustainability” derives from the Latin “sustinere” (to hold, to hold; sub, below). In environmental and economic sciences, the term sustainability refers to the condition of development capable of ensuring the satisfaction of the needs of the present generation, without compromising the possibility of future generations to realize their own. The concept of sustainability was introduced during the first UN conference on the environment in 1972, although only in 1987, with the publication of the Brundtland Report, was the objective of sustainable development clearly defined which, after the UN conference on the environment and development of 1992, has become the new paradigm of development itself. In the environmental field, the concept of sustainability indicates the process of change in which the exploitation of resources, the investment plan, the orientation of technological development and institutional changes are all in harmony and enhance the current and future potential in order to make meeting the needs and aspirations of man. To make the planet more sustainable from an environmental point of view, it is necessary to put into practice a series of strategies, such as providing for more green areas and optimizing traffic within urban spaces, the use of a type of industrial production that has an environmental linked to increasingly lower CO2 emissions, the use of green technologies and renewable energy sources, as well as the adoption of individual lifestyles that favor the correct use of available resources, minimize waste and provide for correct disposal and recycling of consumed products.