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The Rome Marathon joins 'Parchi per Kyoto' (Parks for Kyoto)
With the 2009 edition, the footrace starts a compensation process for the greenhouse gas emissions and becomes the first ?¢‚Ǩ?ìzero emission?¢‚Ǩ¬ù world marathon
(11 Mar 09) Since this year, the Rome Marathon has another goal: the compensation of the greenhouse gas emission, according to what established by the Kyoto Protocol. As a matter of fact, the organization committee of the popular footrace has decided to join the project "Parchi per Kyoto" (Parks for Kyoto), the initiative promoted by Federparchi and Kyoto Club, in association with Legambiente and with the technical support of AzzeroCO2, with the aim to awake public opinion to the effects of the climate change and to promote the goals of the Protocol. In the following years, with the support of Agenzia Regionale per i Parchi del Lazio, Assessorato Regionale all'Ambiente, and Cooperazione tra i Popoli, the Marathon will gradually compensate for the greenhouse emissions generated by the event and will therefore become the first zero emission marathon in the world.
The process will start with the 2009 edition, held on 22nd March. The Marathon will compensate for the emission of about 60 tons of carbon dioxide thanks to a measure carried out in Castelli Romani Park, a regional protected area covering 15,000 ha, involving 15 Municipalities and 350,000 inhabitants. The measure involves a chestnut tree forest covering six ha and compensates for the greenhouse gas emissions deriving from the production of paper material (brochures, posters, etc.) linked to the Marathon, as well as for the electric energy consumed by its offices.
The Project "Parchi per Kyoto", launched in 2007, aims at promoting the commitments of the Kyoto Protocol, through the planting of thousands of trees within regional, national, and international protected areas and through a series of sensitization and information measures regarding the global warming issue.
THE PARTNERS:
The Italian Federation of Parks and Nature Reserves (Federparchi) is an association dealing with social promotion. Born in 1989, it joins and represents over 160 governing bodies of national and regional parks, marine protected areas, regional and state nature reserves, organized according to the region or the territory they belong to (the alpine chain, the Po basin) or according to their function (river parks, metropolitan parks). Federparchi works to promote the creation of the protected area national system. To this aim, it works in agreement with local, regional, and national public institutions, with the associations and bodies operating in the field of environment safeguard and enhancement, with research and conservation Institutes. Through the study and exchange of good practices, the Association favors the conservation and correct enhancement of the natural environment and landscape with its historical, cultural, and social values. Operating in the international field, Federparchi is a IUCN and Europarc Federation member, and collaborates with CBD, FAO, UNEP, UNDP, and UNESCO.
Kyoto Club is a no-profit organization born in 1998 and formed by companies, authorities, associations, and local administration bodies committed in the reduction of the greenhouse gas emissions according to what established by the Kyoto Protocol. To this aim, Kyoto Club promotes sensitization, information, and training initiatives in the fields of energy saving, use of renewable resources, and sustainable mobility. As an interlocutor of policy-makers, it commits itself to the promotion of targeted measures in the energy-environment field.
AzzeroCO2 is a service company created by Legambiente, Kyoto Club, and Ambiente Italia Research Institute, offering to private and public bodies the possibility to oppose climatic changes. In order to implement direct measures, AzzeroCO2 has been accredited since February 2005 as ESCO (Energy Service Company) and therefore provides technical-scientific support to promote energy saving strategies and the use of renewable resources.
The aim of Legambiente is to make the environmental culture, with its reasons and its principles, one of the founding criteria of a new kind of development and well-being, and to demonstrate that the improvement of environmental quality is also an efficient way to face other big challenges: the modernization of economy, the struggle against unemployment, the struggle for peace, the effort to transform globalization into a better life quality and more rights for the billions of people living in misery. Committed against pollution, active in the world of school, fighting against eco-mafia and illegal building, supporting a quality and GMO-free agriculture, opening the road to a strong and fighting environmental volunteer service, it also commits itself to projects and initiatives promoting the Protected Areas, the safeguard of biodiversity, and the sustainable development of the territory.
Agenzia Regionale per i Parchi del Lazio, depending on Assessorato all'Ambiente and Cooperazione tra i Popoli, is the first and the one and only Italian Agency entirely dedicated to the Regional Protected Area System. It was established in 1993, but it is officially active since 2001. Its institutional aims include assisting the managing bodies of the protected areas in the planning and implementation of compatible development programs, collaborating with the competent regional bodies to prepare safeguard and enhancement plans and programs, carrying out monitoring and quality control activities on the habitats and flora and fauna species of Community importance (Natura 2000 Network), dealing with the professional training and refreshment of the employees. Arp commits itself to the organization of the project ?¢‚Ǩ?ìRete degli Ecopoint?¢‚Ǩ¬ù (Ecopoint Network) aiming at sensitizing citizens and suggesting them new proposals and solutions regarding sustainability and eco-efficiency issues.
CONTACTS:
Committee Parchi per Kyoto (Federparchi and Kyoto Club)
Legal Offices:
c/o Federparchi
Via Cristoforo Colombo, 163 - 00147 Roma
Tel. 06/51604940 ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú Fax 06/5138400
segreteria.federparchi@parks.it
Operative Offices:
Extra Comunicazione - Via G. Vitelleschi, 26 - 00193 Roma
Tel. 06/45427872-66-60 - Fax 06.45.42.78.64
segreteria@parchiperkyoto.it
Agenzia Regionale Parchi
Via del Pescaccio 96-98, Roma
Tel. (+39) 06 51687316-06 51687336
Fax. (+39) 06 51687392
Toll-free number 800 593196
E-mail: agenzia@parchilazio.it
Parco Castelli Romani
Villa Barattolo - via Cesare Battisti, 5
00040 Rocca di Papa (Roma)
tel. 06/9479931 - fax 06/9495254
Toll-free number 800 000015
The process will start with the 2009 edition, held on 22nd March. The Marathon will compensate for the emission of about 60 tons of carbon dioxide thanks to a measure carried out in Castelli Romani Park, a regional protected area covering 15,000 ha, involving 15 Municipalities and 350,000 inhabitants. The measure involves a chestnut tree forest covering six ha and compensates for the greenhouse gas emissions deriving from the production of paper material (brochures, posters, etc.) linked to the Marathon, as well as for the electric energy consumed by its offices.
The Project "Parchi per Kyoto", launched in 2007, aims at promoting the commitments of the Kyoto Protocol, through the planting of thousands of trees within regional, national, and international protected areas and through a series of sensitization and information measures regarding the global warming issue.
THE PARTNERS:
The Italian Federation of Parks and Nature Reserves (Federparchi) is an association dealing with social promotion. Born in 1989, it joins and represents over 160 governing bodies of national and regional parks, marine protected areas, regional and state nature reserves, organized according to the region or the territory they belong to (the alpine chain, the Po basin) or according to their function (river parks, metropolitan parks). Federparchi works to promote the creation of the protected area national system. To this aim, it works in agreement with local, regional, and national public institutions, with the associations and bodies operating in the field of environment safeguard and enhancement, with research and conservation Institutes. Through the study and exchange of good practices, the Association favors the conservation and correct enhancement of the natural environment and landscape with its historical, cultural, and social values. Operating in the international field, Federparchi is a IUCN and Europarc Federation member, and collaborates with CBD, FAO, UNEP, UNDP, and UNESCO.
Kyoto Club is a no-profit organization born in 1998 and formed by companies, authorities, associations, and local administration bodies committed in the reduction of the greenhouse gas emissions according to what established by the Kyoto Protocol. To this aim, Kyoto Club promotes sensitization, information, and training initiatives in the fields of energy saving, use of renewable resources, and sustainable mobility. As an interlocutor of policy-makers, it commits itself to the promotion of targeted measures in the energy-environment field.
AzzeroCO2 is a service company created by Legambiente, Kyoto Club, and Ambiente Italia Research Institute, offering to private and public bodies the possibility to oppose climatic changes. In order to implement direct measures, AzzeroCO2 has been accredited since February 2005 as ESCO (Energy Service Company) and therefore provides technical-scientific support to promote energy saving strategies and the use of renewable resources.
The aim of Legambiente is to make the environmental culture, with its reasons and its principles, one of the founding criteria of a new kind of development and well-being, and to demonstrate that the improvement of environmental quality is also an efficient way to face other big challenges: the modernization of economy, the struggle against unemployment, the struggle for peace, the effort to transform globalization into a better life quality and more rights for the billions of people living in misery. Committed against pollution, active in the world of school, fighting against eco-mafia and illegal building, supporting a quality and GMO-free agriculture, opening the road to a strong and fighting environmental volunteer service, it also commits itself to projects and initiatives promoting the Protected Areas, the safeguard of biodiversity, and the sustainable development of the territory.
Agenzia Regionale per i Parchi del Lazio, depending on Assessorato all'Ambiente and Cooperazione tra i Popoli, is the first and the one and only Italian Agency entirely dedicated to the Regional Protected Area System. It was established in 1993, but it is officially active since 2001. Its institutional aims include assisting the managing bodies of the protected areas in the planning and implementation of compatible development programs, collaborating with the competent regional bodies to prepare safeguard and enhancement plans and programs, carrying out monitoring and quality control activities on the habitats and flora and fauna species of Community importance (Natura 2000 Network), dealing with the professional training and refreshment of the employees. Arp commits itself to the organization of the project ?¢‚Ǩ?ìRete degli Ecopoint?¢‚Ǩ¬ù (Ecopoint Network) aiming at sensitizing citizens and suggesting them new proposals and solutions regarding sustainability and eco-efficiency issues.
CONTACTS:
Committee Parchi per Kyoto (Federparchi and Kyoto Club)
Legal Offices:
c/o Federparchi
Via Cristoforo Colombo, 163 - 00147 Roma
Tel. 06/51604940 ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú Fax 06/5138400
segreteria.federparchi@parks.it
Operative Offices:
Extra Comunicazione - Via G. Vitelleschi, 26 - 00193 Roma
Tel. 06/45427872-66-60 - Fax 06.45.42.78.64
segreteria@parchiperkyoto.it
Agenzia Regionale Parchi
Via del Pescaccio 96-98, Roma
Tel. (+39) 06 51687316-06 51687336
Fax. (+39) 06 51687392
Toll-free number 800 593196
E-mail: agenzia@parchilazio.it
Parco Castelli Romani
Villa Barattolo - via Cesare Battisti, 5
00040 Rocca di Papa (Roma)
tel. 06/9479931 - fax 06/9495254
Toll-free number 800 000015
Protected area: Diverse | Fonte: Federparchi
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