Taranto has a new green lung: an urban forest with 4,500 trees

A forest of 4,500 trees will bring oxygen and new greenery to the city of Taranto. It will be created in the Paolo VI neighbourhood, in the north of the city, where 4,577 different tree species will be planted, including holm oak and Macedonian oak, and shrubs including phillyrea, alaternus, narrow-leaved mock privet, lentisk, viburnum and dog rose. When fully operational, the new green area will absorb up to 483 tonnes of CO2 in 20 years and up to 12,785 kg of PM10 per year.

Arbolia and the sponsors of the green area

The forest will be created by Arbolia, a benefit corporation of Snam and Fondazione CDP, founded a year ago to develop new green areas in Italy. The initiative was taken by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Renovit (Snam), Prime Green Solutions (RINA Prime Value Services) and Gabetti Lab, promoters of this energy requalification project in the city, which also includes maintenance of the area for the first two years.

‘The afforestation project,’ emphasises Marco Bianchi, managing director of Tep Energy Solution, a Renovit company, ’complements our energy redevelopment project in the area, which involves 10 buildings and over 200 families for the decarbonisation of apartment buildings, businesses and public administrations.’ Piercarlo Rolando, CEO of RINA Prime Value Services and Prime Green Solutions, says: ‘Thanks to Arbolia, we are supporting a really important project for the city. In Taranto, we are carrying out various seismic and energy restructuring works to further improve the city’s urban planning, as well as the quality of its building heritage’.

Alessandro De Biasio, CEO of Gabetti Lab, also expresses his satisfaction: ‘We are satisfied with this project, because it is only by working together that we can bring about real change, especially in terms of the well-being of our living environment. Today, following the redevelopment work we have carried out, we have saved over 7 thousand tonnes of CO2: there is still a long way to go and only by joining forces will we be able to improve various areas of everyday life’.

Arbolia: 10 green areas in 8 Italian cities

Arbolia, in Apulia, has already carried out a forestation project in Salento, within the Botanical Garden of Lecce, and is completing the creation of another forest, also in Taranto, within the Archaeological Park of the Magna Graecia Walls, an area of great historical interest. In addition, an urban forest is also being planned in Bari. This means that Arbolia has created 10 green belts in 8 Italian cities.

Article translated by Jasmina Towers

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