On 13th June the works for Rio+20, started, the United Nation’s conference organised in Brazil, exactly 20 years after the historical Summit of the Earth of 1992. Rio+20 will culminate with the presence of the heads of states that shall meet for the final session of the event from 20th through 22nd June.
During the conference, seminars, workshops and other events relative to the subject topics shall take place, with exhibitions by selecetd leading companies in the sector of sustainable technologies. Sea Marconi is one among these Italian excellences. Currently, the company’s top management is in Rio de Janeiro in the Italian Hall together with companies such as Enel Green Power, TIM Brazil, Fiat, Telespazio, Selex (Finmeccanica), M & G, Conai, Power One, Genera, Turbotech.
Sea Marconi participates to the United Nations Conference (Rio+20) just two months after the meeting in Sao Paulo “Brazil, Italy and Africa for sustainable biofuel production” when already it was part of a delegation of Italian Companies accompanied by the Minister Corrado Clini.
The new area of business developed by Sea Marconi for the production of bioenergy and bioproducts fully responds to the path indicated by the first Summit of the Earth of 1992, which, differently from the previuos conferences of the United Nations, required the participation of all the sectors of society. It was evident, and it is even more so nowadays, that sustainable development could not be achieved by governments only, but would require the joint effort of the entire civilian society “business and industry, children and youngsters, farmers and native populations, local administrations, non-government organisations, scientific and technolgical community, women, workers and unions”.
There is a very simple fact to be kept in mind: the world wealth produced in the last 20 years increased 40% and the use of natural resources increased with the same percentage (from 42 to 60 billion tons of raw materials).
Sea Marconi, since the beginning, set its bases on the research for technological solutions to protect the environment, by developing a response against the contamination of oils (present in electrical equipment) by PCBs. Nowadays and for the future, the environment is confirmed as the fulcrum around which research and innovation must pivot, but in a different application area, finalised toward the recovery of biomasses for the sustainable production of bioenergy and bioproducts.
