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“Green City Italia. A great opportunity for the Italian cities”, was the theme of a conference that took the place on 10^th of March at the Triennale di Milano, within the exhibition “Green Life: building sustainable cities up”.

This appointment was supported from Comune di Milano and Expo 2015, hit the great Italian debut of Green City, an international movement that promotes a culture of cities more and more green.

Andreas Kipar, president of Scientific Committee Green City Italia, discussed  about building more sustainable and green cities, in particular the focus was on the city of Milan and its province, with the other speakers who are directly involved in these initiative.

Furthermore, this was the first step in preparation for the European forum of the Green Cities “Toward the cities of the future”, which will take place on June the 4^th , during the International Festival of Environment (3^rd-6^th June 2010). The forum will involve the five European partners of Green City, which subscribed their first agreement at the European Council of Strasburg on the October 26^th, 2009, through the representatives of the cities of Berlin, London, Paris, Amsterdam and Milan, as well as the emblematic case of New York City.

Green City Italia has chosen to support the project Life Gate’s Impatto Zero®: thanks to this agreement it has been possible to reduce and compensate the CO2’s emissions, caused by the event itself, creating and safeguarding 2000mq of new forests in Madagascar.

As for Green Life – Building Sustainable Cities is an international exhibition showcasing urban development projects based on sustainability and eco-friendly building techniques. At Green Life we can show what has already been done or is in the process of being done in architecture in Italy and the rest of the world (Europe, China, the US, and elsewhere) to create urban ecosystems that are sustainable for the planet.

It is an opportunity to talk about what it is already possible to do today in an area which includes all the languages, methods and materials involved in construction.  Design will become more and more influenced by the need for integrated management of energy, water, waste, transportation and logistics, in terms of both requirements and savings, right from the earliest stages of urban renewal and planning.