EY has selected 1,000 initiatives identified in the new study “A Green Covid-19 Recovery and Resilience Plan for Europe”, selected from a range of 2,000 works that can be immediately built in EU countries in the fields of construction, transport, energy and land use.
A few numbers: 200 billion euros of public and private investments required for their implementation; these projects will create 2 million jobs; the percentage of works that will bring an innovative boost offered by startups and young SMEs is 30; the totally green initiatives reserved for the energy sector, agriculture, transport are 35; the sustainable ones that will work on the development of a circular economy are 23.
A set of ideas to make Europe and the planet more ecological, with the challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, avoiding coal and investing in alternative energies such as solar energy or the use of hydrogen. In Italy, it is worth mentioning the Enel Green Power project, which envisages a gigafactory using solar panels, but it’s also interesting mentioning the acquisitions of 100 electric buses in Slovakia or the Swedish project concerning the use of hydrogen in the production of steel instead of coal.
