Sustainability Forum 2021

The event, organized in Rome on 25 and 26 November by Fortune Italia, now in its fourth edition, was created to provide businesses, institutions, intermediate bodies and civil society a space for participatory discussion, authoritative and independent on the main issues of responsible and sustainable development of the global economy.

The meaning of a sustainability award

Over the last few years many companies on a global level have espoused – more or less voluntarily – environmental sustainability practices in their production processes and in the company organization. The motto, already in vogue before the pandemic, ‘Getting serious about Sustainability’, Sustainability is a serious thing, is now a must of corporate strategies around the world, occupying most of the communication spaces. But it is also an invitation to the media, to commit themselves to countering the odious phenomenon of ‘Greenwashing’, verifying the content of communications from time to time and reporting those that are deliberately misleading in terms of environmental impact.

Sustainability, therefore, must be verified and rewarded when present. For Fortune Italia this has always been one of the main axes on which to orient its speech and its objectives; In 2015, it launched the CHANGE THE WORLD ranking to celebrate companies that most effectively use the creative tools of business to help the Planet.

The 15 startup finalists at the Change the World Award

Category Ecological transition:
• Circularity | Circular economy paths for businesses
• Latitudo 40
• Test1 s.r.l.

Category Digital, innovation, competitiveness:
• AIDAPT S.r.l.
• Azienda Agricola Biolu
• Lanp

Sustainable mobility infrastructure category:
• Beond S.r.l.
• Bikeroom S.r.l.
• Tender Srl

Category Sustainable finance:
• Fideal
• MUV srl Società Benefit
• Thinkabout

Inclusion and cohesion category:
• Connecting Talents
• Fixreport s.r.l.s.
• SEOSPIRITO SRL

The criteria with which these startups have been selected are numerous and technical. But the ultimate meaning of the evaluation was well summed up by the winners of the digitization award: “we stubbornly continue to put people at the center”.

Source: Fortune Italia