Positive climate, when living, building and producing is good for the planet

Familiarize with the concept of positive climates It is essential in a world where extreme meterological events continue to increase. Events to which, let’s remember, Italy is extremely exposed and that bring with it not only victims but also enormous economic consequences.

Without a doubt it is tiring, even uncomfortable, to think that apparently harmless gestures such as an exhibition, a holiday or t-shirt, they can contribute to a flood or a drought, but unfortunately it is just like that: each of our gestures in some way produces emissions capable of modifying the climate, most of the time heating it. Or rather, every choice and purchase that is not positive climates.

Beyond the carbon neutrality: what does it mean positive climates

Thanks to a certain lexical similarity, for us Italians it is quite simple to translate this combination: positive climates means positive for the climate and refers – as he explains to us Nicola MoroEcodesign expert of Tinexta Innovation Hub – to organizations, products, events and behaviors that instead of increasing the emissions that alter the climate, decrease them.

With the premise that we have done, it would seem impossible, yet thanks to precise choices also a new building – that of buildings is one of the sectors that most contributes to greenhouse gas emissions (often indicated with the acronym Ghg, from English Greenhouse Gases) – can help the planet we live on.

A practical example in this area comes from the European Union: in the summer of 2025, the construction site of the new building of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission which responds to the principles of New European Bauhaus. It will rise to Seville and will be the first building of a community institution to be positive climatesabove all thanks to a production of energy from photovoltaic panels that will exceed the needs of the complex itself.

From events to food, passing through art: the spread of positive climates

Beyond the EU, in recent years there are different realities that have aimed at positive climatic impacts. Among these there is Sapling Spiritsa British British company B Corp who, for each bottle of its Gin that sells, plants a new tree in Great Britain and has also committed itself to contrasting the epidemic of Xylella in Puglia, grafting 20 thousand new olive trees.

In our country there is a certain ferment in this area in the province of Treviso, where they count to become positive climates In 2026 the winery Cecchethe and in 2030 the Sgambaro pasta factory; In both cases, reforestation projects, biodiversity protection, control of the supply chain and responsible use of water are underway.

Even the world of art and shows has not remained watching: it is the case of The Journeyinstallation promoted by Scrigno and created by the young designers of Yacademy under the guidance of Mario Cucinella Architects, who appeared in 2021 ad Sella artthe contemporary art park found in the woods of the Valsugana. The first concert was also held in this park with a treeticket, that is, paid in trees adopted by the public who were then planted in the surrounding area, hit in 2018 by the Storm Vaia.

The two roads to become positive climates

Fortunately, awareness of the climatic crisis is pushing an increasing number of companies and institutions to have strategies to reduce one’s emissions, often adopting an approach that evaluates all the life phases – from the extraction of the raw materials until the moment in which it is no longer used – of a product, the so -called Life Cycle Assessment.

Whether it is to reset them, reaching the so -called climatic neutralitywhether you aspire to positive climatesthere are two main paths that can be traveled: “On the one hand there is compensation, on the other the Ecodesign, which involves the development of new materials, processes capable of capturing CO2 (which is not trivial), the use of vegetation in a functional way to the building or, at the limit, the self -production of energy in abundance. In an ideal scenario compensation, made in a scrupulous way, can be the first step towards a positive climates More entrusted to the sustainable design of the product or process », continues Moro.

From the single with the separate collection to the institutions with Ecodesign, we have so far made many efforts to reduce the environmental impacts of our activities. We must not stop, but rather take example from those who profit from energy and investments to achieve ambitious objectives such as the positive climates.

With an important awareness: “A new product that helps climate is always excellent news, even if we must not forget that environmental impacts are numerous and also affect other sectors, such as soil, water and raw materials. In the EcoDesign it is necessary to consider all aspects involved and find a balance that facilitates sustainable development “.