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REVIEW : "Targeting sustainable bioeconomy: A new development strategy for Southern European countries . The Manifesto of the European Noon"

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REVIEW : "Targeting sustainable bioeconomy: A new development strategy for Southern European countries . The Manifesto of the European Noon"

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Copyright: © 2018 Sofia Mannelli, This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License,which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Received: 30 November -0001 | Accepted: 27 February 2018 | Published: 06 March 2018

Keywords: Decarburization - Economy –Circular Economy-Renewable Energy– biodegradable bioplastics compostable.

Abstract

The Italian Chimica Verde Bionet Association (Green Chemistry Italian Association) features Capraia Smart Island, a project co-ordinated on an island in northern Tyrrhenian Sea, one of the most beautiful areas of the Mediterranean Sea, inside the sanctuary of cetaceans. Capraia Smart Island is intended to be a pilot model of circular economy, a lighthouse project for the Mediterranean Sea. In the European Union, lighthouse projects are those applicable to several territories, characterized by a large breath, featuring a key importance. Over 50 researchers and experts gathered in May 2017 in a first event, where the study of the opportunities to build and develop a broad process of island economy decarbonization was started; they are now trying to build a model to raise up Capraia Smart Island.

Project innovation is not limited to the original idea, but includes also a continuous, face-to-face dialogue with people living in the territory concerned, a complex co-operation among several researchers, the involvement of multiple bodies, each of them different to the others, including, but not limited to, environmental agencies and no-profit organizations.
  A second Capraia Smart Island event is scheduled on May 17/18, 2018. The agenda will include technical sessions (farming, recycling, marine litter and trash) and a general session where first outcomes achieved will be presented and guests from other smart island projects will give their contributions.

Conclusion

Proposals made constitute the trial version of a bottom-up" project, which was born from the population of Capraia  and by a group of experts who have accepted the challenge. First projects were drafted, we are promoting the participation through the collection of European funding on energy, water and smart grid. Soon other projects on waste and renewable energy shall be promoted. The agricultural component is in the study phase. In May 2018 there will be a second meeting on the island to make the point on the work in progress. On that occasion, we could try to set down the ideas for a pilot project constituting the "Manifesto of  bioeconomy  in a smart island of the European Noon".

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