Being Sustainable with Energy

ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY ARE THE RESEARCH TOPICS OF GREEN, THE RESEARCH CENTER DIRECTED BY MARCO PERCOCO, ALSO AUTHOR OF THE STUDY BEHIND THE CANDIDACY OF MILAN FOR THE 2027 WINTER OLYMPICS

If the Milan-Cortina combination won in the competition for the assignment of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, it is partly thanks to Bocconi. Or, better, thanks to GREEN (Research Center on geography, natural resources, energy, environment and networks), whose 'Assessment of the territorial economic impact of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics and Paralympics' was part of the winning dossier presented by the organizers to the International Olympic Committee. GREEN was born in 2018 from the merger of CERTET and IEFE, absorbing their vast competences at national, European and international level. Its mission is to conduct and promote research at the intersection of the spatial analysis of socio-economic phenomena with climate change, transport, environmental policy and the analysis of energy markets.
 
The Center now has about 50 affiliates from the departments of Economics, Finance, Social and Political Sciences and Legal Studies, plus some external contributions, in particular from partnerships with the Sant'Anna School of Pisa, the University of Rome Tor Vergata, the 'University of Milan and the University of Venice. "Alongside more 'classic' themes such as transport economics, environmental economics, and energy, two new areas of our research have recently emerged," says Marco Percoco, associate professor at the Department of Sciences. social and political and director of Green, “those of sustainable finance and environmental law. To go into a little more detail,” continues Percoco," in the area of economic geography and local governance we deal with the spatial analysis of socio-economic phenomena and the evaluation of local public policies; in that of economics and environmental policy our attention is focused above all on climate change; another very important area is that of the economic analysis of sectors such as transport, energy, telecommunications, water services and solid urban services; finally, there is the area of circular green and ESG Finance, the analysis of the relationship between sustainability and finance.
 
Five observatories have been created within the Center: The Observatory on public procurement and sustainability; the Green Economy Observatory; the Smart City Observatory; the Renewable gas Observatory; and Sur Lab, Sustainable Urban Regeneration Lab.
 
“In the next few years in particular, we will focus on the theme of sustainable cities and real estate markets”, continues Marco Percoco, “but also on the very delicate and current one of sustainable mobility and investments in infrastructure intended to support it”.

by Davide Ripamonti