«Any policy for the territories is implemented in strong, concrete and continuous dialogue, with the system of territorial bodies, with companies, the third sector, the communities all operating on the territories. It is the community that makes the difference. The building does not close. Both in dialogue and listening. Article 44 of the Constitution – the mountains and the policies – is our fixed point, must be the vector of regional policies that choose true solutions and decide to give full value to the policies for the mountains “. This is what Uncem writes in a note in view of the electoral rounds for the regional ones scheduled for the next 5 and 6 October by proposing a programmatic agenda to the candidates for the presidency and to the regional council.
«The Region, the junta, identifies an councilor with delegations to the mountains, parks, forests. Uncem is clear, these themes are at the center of the political agendas of Calabria. But a reference councilor is needed. The mountains are not a residue and do not need assistance. Depopulation, abandonment, desertification are fought with culture, planning, investments, scientific attention to social, demographic, climatic, economic dynamics. Thought and action that must be shared with the entire institutional system, very precious. The mountain generates signs of ferment. Believing in “us” is the best source of inclusive policies – continues the note – which give hope and make everyone feel of a community. To face the demographic crisis and energy and climatic crises in Calabria. Calabria looks not only on the larger coasts and cities. The region builds pacts and interaction between territories “.
The ten points of Uncem
1 – Mountain of the new growth strategy: Green Economy with the Green Community, innovation, sustainability. The millions of euros for Green Community strategies become two to twenty, to support winning and virtuous territorial paths.
2 – “An ambulance and a general practitioner in each municipality” to build a new public welfare – starting from territorial health – which fills the structural gaps of living in the mountains, acting on school, health, transport.
3 – Climate change and demographic crisis, the two lands of action heart of the new mountain policy that we must field in Calabria and throughout the country. We create “pacts” between mountains and coasts, capitals and small municipalities, Apennine Park of Europe in link with urbanized areas.
4 – National forest law, law on the Green Economy, law on small municipalities, new mountain law act effectively, if the Calabria region legislates and identifies resources. Integrated strategies (internal areas, green communities, forests, sustainable development) are attributed by removing the logic of calls, rain incentives and bonuses for children, houses, or those who move. We choose the way of peculiar and differentiated taxation for those who live and go to live on the territories.
5 – Forest policies are not oriented towards Assistentialism or conservation. We pass the logic of biomass for only energy production. The Region has made to plan, certify, manage 700 thousand hectares of forest, production and protective, generative of ecosystem services and portable sustainability credits on the market, capable of feeding economic supply chains with first and second high quality enhancement, in agreement with unions, municipalities, universities, research centers, businesses, employers. Act on the forests with ERDF and complement of rural development (PSR) also by promoting land associations and enhancement of dry stone walls. 6 – Calabria is a place of infrastructure that connect and modernize. Public companies (Enel, Eni, Anas, State Railways, RFI, Terna, etc.) must no longer consider the territory as a colonial logic, but must begin to invest in the mountains creating social value. They invest and listen to mayors and democratic institutions.
7 – A new phase starts on hydroelectric concessions, are to be revised through refreshment to the territories and investments to be carried out. Not only Calabria Region at the concert tables, but also local authorities, municipalities together. The Region destinies the canon that collects mountain areas to defend water sources and reduce the risk of hydrogeological instability.
8 – Mountain digital unrealization is a priority objective. Municipalities are the pivot. Sula digitization in Calabria is needed a shot, with investments and synchronizing ultralarga band plan, italia 5G piano, Italy 1giga piano. The 5G must be for all the mountain municipalities of Calabria. The Region must invest its own and EU economic resources for 5G telephone repeaters who fill too many areas now discovered and risk security.
9 – National and regional parks are the engine of economic development. They plan with a foresight public managerial governance, projected to the future, in constant dialogue with municipalities, mountain unions, all communities. Montino forest policies, intelligent projects for renewable energies, favor agricultural and silvicultural activities.
10 – In the logic of the Law on Small Municipalities, local development must be scheduled together, attributing to the municipalities (large and small) associated with the operational function for growth and investments, avoiding state or regional funnel hills. Calabria Region acts on the reorganization of the Municipalities, with mountain unions of municipalities throughout the Apennines, which regenerate the PA, services, growth, local development, the economy of the places.
A programmatic proposal signed by President Uncem National Marco Bussone, of President Uncem Calabria Vicenzo Mazzei, in agreement with Legambiente and the Mountain Manager and protected areas Antonio Nicoletti and all the mayors, mayors, administrators of the mountain municipalities of Calabria