March 2021Progetto di Lustro
Five flagship projects, five principles and five guidelines for using the European recovery funds for people and for the climate.
About us
Our
story
Rinascimento Green was founded in Italy in July 2019 as an independent initiative: to bring together different parts of civil society and build a grassroots Green Deal, with people’s participation.
Where we started
To change everything, we need everyone.
From the start we chose to be an independent project, tied to no party and open to every part of society: an informal coalition of people and organisations united by shared principles and methods.
In 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, environment, health and the economy showed themselves for what they are: three interlinked crises. With an online survey we gathered tens of thousands of proposals, ideas and points of view from around 8,500 people. With the help of scientists and experts they became a proposal for a transition plan: a Green New Deal for Italy.
In just two years a broad and varied network grew around this work: Catholic, radical, environmental and trade union groups. At a difficult time for the country we set our differences aside to focus on the priorities.
Since then our work has followed three directions:
- building a large coalition of people and organisations to promote collective action;
- involving local governments and politics in bold solutions to the climate crisis, towards an economy free from fossil fuels;
- fostering social inclusion.
“Environment, health, economy: three words that seem to describe different worlds, but today more than ever they are interconnected.”
Progetto di Lustro
Now that the money is there, there are no more excuses.
When Europe put the Recovery Fund on the table, we coordinated the collective writing of a document of proposals and principles to use it well: Progetto di Lustro. We wrote it in autumn 2020 and presented it in March 2021, together with a large and varied group of organisations.
It holds our way of looking at the future: fewer emissions, decent work, protected health and land, more participation and fairness. Five flagship projects, five principles for using the funds and five guidelines for the government’s work, so that after five years we could measure whether the country had really moved forward.
Its principles already included involving people directly, with citizens’ assemblies to decide how to use the funds, locally too. A few months later we started organising them, with AssembraMenti.
Our principles
The rules we set ourselves.
Climate and people
A plan to stay within 1.5 degrees and, at the same time, to create jobs in a fairer, more inclusive economy.
Caring for places
Building resilience, tackling the ecosystem crisis and making places healthy and safe matters as much as cutting emissions.
Independence
No party behind us: a project rooted in civil society that aims to involve every part of society.
End fossil fuel subsidies
No more public money for oil and gas: those resources should go to social and climate justice policies.
Solutions that already exist
Time is short: many sustainable, proven technologies already exist; what is missing is the will and the right policies to use them.
No one against anyone
No choice can be made in favour of one part of the population and against another.
From Progetto di Lustro
Five flagship projects.
Lower emissions, lower energy bills
More efficient homes, public buildings and businesses, energy income, energy communities and at least 1,000 MW of solar power for households in financial difficulty.
A different way to produce and consume
Industry, businesses and farming moving to local supply chains and a circular economy, an end to environmentally harmful subsidies and at least 40% of farmland organic.
Getting around better, without polluting
Electric mobility, 1,150 new trains, metros and trams, 1,500 km of extra regional railways, especially in the South, and 5,000 km of cycle routes.
Safe, modern schools and universities
Earthquake-proof, efficient buildings, 5 million trees around schools, digitalisation and more investment in research.
Safe, resilient places
Clean-up of at least 30% of polluted sites of national and regional interest, 50 million trees and more marine protected areas.
Targets to be reached within five years, as set out in Progetto di Lustro.
From the archive
Three projects to rediscover.
The story goes on.
Today we carry it forward with Transistor, with our campaigning and with SICER’s training.