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dustrial production cycles has allowed us
to save primary energy for over 17 million
tons of oil equivalent, and emissions by
about 60 million tons of CO2. And in the
packaging industry, where the recycling
rate (2015) is now accounting for 66.9%,
the amounts continue to grow: according
to the latest Eurostat data, from 1998 to
2013 Italy is the European country with
the greatest increase in packaging sent for
recycling (+4.2 million tons).
In June 2016 the share of electricity production from renewable sources in our
country surpassed that from fossil sources.
And Italy has the world record, among the
industrialized countries, of share of photovoltaic (8%) in the national electricity mix.
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Geography of eco-investments
There are many businesses in the green regions of the North, but their presence has
spread throughout the country. Lombardy
is the region with the highest number of
eco-investing companies, 69,390, almost
a fifth of the national total; followed by Veneto with 37,120 units, Lazio with 33,630
green businesses, Emilia Romagna with
33,010 and Tuscany with 29,160. Then
we find Piemonte with 28.480, Campania
26,910, Sicily 23,630, Apulia 23,330 and
Marche 11,870. At provincial level, in absolute terms, Rome and Milan clearly lead
the list thanks to the presence of, respectively, 25,240 and 22,590 businesses investing in green technologies. In the third,
fourth and fifth position, with over 10,000
eco-investing companies, we find Torino,
more than 7,000. Turin is in the third place, with 3,700 new green jobs demand,
The first region for recruitment of green Naples is fourth with 3,000, Bergamo fifth
jobs is Lombardy, where currently close to with 1,870.
20,000 new jobs have been created, equivalent to just over a quarter of the national
total (27.6%). Lazio follows at a distance
with 9,000 recruitments (12.2% of the national total), then Veneto with 6,400 green
jobs (8.9%), Emilia Romagna and Piedmont with more than 5,000 in each case.
Napoli and Brescia.
Below this threshold are placed two
southern regions, Campania and Sicily,
where the assumptions of green jobs are
just over 4,000. Approaching even more
to the territories, the first provinces for
green jobs are the great realities of Milan,
with 12,000 recruitments, and Rome, with
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