Why greening cities should be a pillar of climate action

Why greening cities should be a pillar of climate action

Why greening cities should be a pillar of climate action

In the Autumn edition of Living Architecture Monitor (LAM), our managing director Luigi Petito reflects on how interweaving green infrastructure with the built environment allows to tackle human-induced warming and improve the management of water runoffs in cities. Luigi heads the EU Chapter of the World Green Infrastructure Network.

The full article is available here.

The LAM magazine is a quarterly publication first published in 1998.  It features in-depth interviews with leaders in the green building movement, opinions, research, and green roof and wall project profiles. Living architecture is the integration of living, organic systems with non-living, inorganic systems in, on, or around buildings. Living architecture is an important step to reconcile people and nature in the modern built environment.

In January 2020 we were asked to set up and run the European Chapter of the World Green Infrastructure Network. Another exciting task to improve the quality of urban areas and help cities to reconnect with nature.

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Have Your Say: European Commission Consults on New Stormwater Policies

Have Your Say: European Commission Consults on New Stormwater Policies

Have Your Say: European Commission Consults on New Stormwater Policies

In the Summer edition of  Living Architecture Monitor (LAM), our managing director Luigi Petito, writes as head of the EU World Green Infrastructure NetworkThe article, covers the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) that was developed 30 years ago to ensure clean and safe urban wastewater in European cities.

The full article is available here.

The LAM magazine is a quarterly publication first published in 1998.  It features in-depth interviews with leaders in the green building movement, opinions, research, and green roof and wall project profiles. Living architecture is the integration of living, organic systems with non-living, inorganic systems in, on, or around buildings. Living architecture is an important step to reconcile people and nature in the modern built environment.

In January 2020 we were asked to set up and run the European Chapter of the World Green Infrastructure Network. Another exciting task to improve the quality of urban areas and help cities to reconnect with nature.

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Keeping busy with green infrastructure

Keeping busy with green infrastructure

Keeping busy with green infrastructure

 

In the Spring edition of Living Architecture Monitor (LAM), our managing director Luigi Petito, writes as head of the EU World Green Infrastructure Network. The article, covers green infrastructure and their role in the new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change and gives an overview of the relevant European policy and regulatory files which we are currently following.

The full article is available here.

The LAM magazine is a quarterly publication first published in 1998.  It features in-depth interviews with leaders in the green building movement, opinions, research, and green roof and wall project profiles. Living architecture is the integration of living, organic systems with non-living, inorganic systems in, on, or around buildings. Living architecture is an important step to reconcile people and nature in the modern built environment.

 
In January 2020 we were asked to set up and run the European Chapter of the World Green Infrastructure Network. Another exciting task to improve the quality of urban areas and help cities to reconnect with nature.

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Activity Letter 2020

Activity Letter 2020

Fifteen Years Old and Going Strong!

At Business Solutions Europa, 2020 marked our fifteenth anniversary. Although the range and scope of our projects have broadened through the years, we remain committed to help our clients advocating for some of today’s most important public policy issues and contribute to a more sustainable future.

Here’s a quick recap of what we accomplished in 2020!

Energy efficiency

The work we began in the early 2000s to help our clients promote energy efficiency at every level of society continued—and even intensified—in 2020. In fact, we may safely claim to have established ourselves as one of the most knowledgeable and networked energy-efficiency consultancies in Europe.

We’re especially proud of our work to produce a multitude of highly effective briefing and advocacy notes, infographics, letters and reports. And our ability to network policy and decision makers with the business community helped stakeholders across the EU to understand the importance, impact, and urgency of promoting energy-efficiency as the most cost-effective way to reduce CO2 emissions and decarbonize the EU economy by 2050 at the latest.

In 2020, we started to work on innovative projects related to natural-based solutions such as green infrastructures to mitigate the devastating effect of climate change, improve biodiversity and improve rainwater management in our cities. Green infrastructures, and in particular green roofs and walls,  are poised to play an important role in energy-efficiency discussions for years to come. It is our commitment to this kind of topics that places us at the cutting edge of energy efficiency and sustainability matters.

Health

In addition to our energy efficiency efforts, we continued to work on projects related to health and in particular on initiatives tackling childhood obesity. We initiated several new raising awareness and educational projects to promote healthy lifestyles and address the health, social, psychological and economic impacts of childhood obesity.

Thanks to our experience with scientific dissemination and publication, in 2020 we continued also our collaboration with one of the most prominent player in the community of anaesthesiologists in Europe and globally.

We are delighted to see our global network in the field of health prevention continuously growing.

Communication

During the year, we consolidated our position as creative,  knowledgeable and reliable provider of communication services for individual organizations and associations. Our services ranged from photography for advertising and marketing purposes to website development, graphic design and branding.

So here we stand on the threshold of a new year (2021) and at the end of what has been, in every respect, a very complex year of operation. Looking ahead to the new year we will work hard not only to maintain the strength of our consultancy but to advance it. With the ongoing support of my wonderful colleagues and partners, I look forward to another year of productive work in contributing to the health and success of our clients and of the European Union.

Luigi Petito
Founder and managing director
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Gemma Project

Gemma Project

Gemma Project

Never before has the case for greater energy savings been so strong. Greater energy efficiency is the fastest, cheapest, safest, easiest and cleanest way to deliver climate and energy security. It is an area where businesses active in Europe excel and where the right mix of policy and business leadership can improve and protect Europe’s competitiveness. This leadership could position our enterprises to benefit from the global necessity for energy efficiency which will be critical in a resource constrained world.
The European Alliance to Save Energy (EU-ASE) was established at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2010 in response to the urgent need for stronger action on energy efficiency in Europe. EU-ASE brings together leading companies providing energy efficient solutions, prominent European politicians, thought-leaders and campaigners from across Europe. They have joined forces to call for an end to the empty consensus on energy efficiency. Their mission is clear; to make it impossible for European policy makers to imagine a future where energy efficiency is not a fundamental part of securing a safe, reliable and low carbon energy system. Their approach will be to engage constructively with policy makers but to challenge forcefully the current status quo that continues to see our technologies and ideas left on the shelf rather than deployed to the benefit of Europe.
Business Solutions Europa is the General Secretariat of EU-ASE.

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