Biogas Italy 2024, carbon negative agriculture: innovation, sustainability and development of renewables in the transition path

The eighth edition of Biogas Italy ended today: “Think Negative. The carbon negative agriculture to produce more while consuming less”, the annual event of the CIB-Consorzio Italiano Biogas that brought together the world of agricultural biogas and biomethane, with a second and final day that took stock of the measures dedicated to agriculture, between the need to ensure food security and renewable energy production, and the proposals to combat climate change. A dynamic sector that goes beyond food production and an engine of sustainable development for the entire country.

Today’s appointment was an opportunity to present and launch a preview of the new Farming for Future Foundation, which stems from the roots of the CIB’s project of the same name, born in 2020 from the desire to encapsulate in a road map of 10 actions, the good practices adopted by the Consortium’s members for the future of agriculture. On stage for the launch of the new initiative was Diana Lenzi, former president of the Young European Farmers and today head of Farming for Future: “The Foundation aspires to become a platform for exchange and comparison, an accelerator of concrete proposals for the future of agroecology in Italy in a model that combines productivity and profitability, putting agriculture and Italian entrepreneurial know-how at the centre. We aim to become a credible, reliable and proactive interlocutor towards institutions to help them in the decision-making process.”

At the opening of the second day of Biogas Italy, CIB Vice President Angelo Baronchelli, founder of the AB Group, said: “We are going to embark on two intense years of work where the country is called upon to accelerate in order to achieve the PNRR objectives. I am certain that the industry will know how to play its part, strengthened by the relationship that we have been able to establish with the agricultural world in recent years: a pact consolidated over time that will map out the trajectories to achieve the best result for everyone. In this context, it is necessary to think about investments that look beyond 2026, in a ten-year timeframe’.