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World Recycling Day
World Recycling Day
Mar 18, 2025 — Mar 18, 2025

March 18 is World Recycling Day, an initiative aimed at raising awareness among citizens about the importance of recycling and the conscious use of resources, promoting practices that reduce energy use, improve the quality of water and the air we breathe and combat climate change.

ISPRA has recently updated the Environmental Indicators Database, in the “Circular Economy” section are collected the indicators useful for monitoring the transition towards a circular economic model in which materials are used, recycled and reused as much as possible.

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Aerobiological monitoring. Between natural heritage and artificial intelligence
Aerobiological monitoring. Between natural heritage and artificial intelligence
Mar 21, 2025 10:00 AM — Mar 21, 2025 01:00 PM Webinar

National Pollen Day

On March 21, on the occasion of the XVIII edition of the National Pollen Day, the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research and the POLLnet SNPA thematic network present the seminar “Aerobiological monitoring between natural heritage and artificial intelligence”.

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Italian Municipalities focus on green
Italian Municipalities focus on green
Mar 17, 2025

Published the new ISPRA bookleet on urban nature plans 

An analysis that starts from the cities to reflect on a planning tool that is still not very widespread in Italy: the Municipal Green Plan. The study focuses on 10 Green Plans approved by Italian Municipalities starting from 2020: Torino, Vercelli, Bolzano, Padova, Rovigo, Parma, Bologna, Forlì, Livorno, Avellino, where over 2 million people live, and which intends to stimulate a reflection on this important planning tool to make the territories more inclusive and resilient. The analysis is contained in the ISPRA publication “Urban nature Plans: tools to bring nature back into our lives?" promoted and edited by the Institute with the contributions of ANCI, ICLEI and Paolo Pileri. In this publication, ISPRA offers a new vision of the city that combines natural capital and green and blue heritage with the key themes of urban sustainability, through strategies aimed at combining the increase of public greenery with environmental justice, the reduction of land consumption with adaptation to climate change, the care of greenery with active citizenship and public participation.

The ISPRA booklet also provides useful suggestions for overcoming critical issues, acting as a driving force for promoting new interdisciplinary study and research activities and as an incentive for the Green Plan to become, in the coming years, a consolidated and increasingly widespread planning practice among local administrations in Italy.

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WATER resource care and universal access
WATER resource care and universal access
Mar 21, 2025 10:00 AM — Mar 21, 2025 01:00 PM Rome, Aula Gruppi parlamentari. Via di Campo Marzio, 78

Towards the Euro-Mediterranean Water Forum in Rome 2026

The international conference "Water: care of the resource and universal access. Towards the Euro-Mediterranean Water Forum in Rome 2026" will take place on March 21st. The meeting is from 10:00 in the Hall of Parliamentary Groups at the Chamber of Deputies.
In 2026, Rome will host the first Euro-Mediterranean Water Forum. The Forum, which until now has involved only the countries of the Mediterranean area, will for the first time also involve all the European and Balkan states.

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