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Municipal green plans: tools to bring nature back into our lives?
Municipal green plans: tools to bring nature back into our lives?
Mar 20, 2025 09:30 AM — Mar 20, 2025 01:00 PM

Bringing nature back into our lives: this is what the European Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 says. And since the lives of millions and millions of citizens are concentrated in cities and in the increasingly anthropized contexts of our territories, it is from the cities that we must start again to reverse the trend of the progressive degradation of ecosystems, including urban ones.
The new publication "Urban nature Plans: tools to bring nature back into our lives? - produced and published by Urban Area section - It therefore starts from the cities to reflect on a planning tool that is still not very widespread in Italy - the Municipal Green Plan - with the aim of understanding its contents, strategies and transformative potential for healthier, more inclusive and resilient territories. Torino, Vercelli, Bolzano, Padova, Rovigo, Parma, Bologna, Forlì, Livorno, Avellino: these are the 10 Green Plans analyzed.

Representatives of MASE, ANCI and ICLEI have been invited to the webinar and the program includes technical insights and a session dedicated to Municipalities.

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Peace with Nature: Research, Organizations and Institutions together
Peace with Nature: Research, Organizations and Institutions together
Mar 18, 2025 09:00 AM — Mar 18, 2025 01:00 PM Rome, Orto Botanico

Thanks to its strategic position in the Mediterranean, its varied geomorphology and the extraordinary diversity of habitats, Italy is the European country with the greatest variety of living species and the highest rate of endemic species.

Furthermore, Italy is one of the few nations in the world to have established the defense of biodiversity as a fundamental principle in its Constitution. In February 2022, in fact, the Constitutional Law of 11 February 2022, no. 1 was approved by Parliament, which recognizes an express importance to the protection of the environment, biodiversity and ecosystems in the part dedicated to Fundamental Principles.

The contemporary challenges presented by the biodiversity crisis, which include efforts to address the direct factors that are at the root of the crisis itself, such as the destruction and degradation of habitats, the excessive extraction of biological resources, pollution, invasive alien species and climate change, transcend national borders.

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The geological cartography of Italy at 50,000 (CARG Project) continues to be renewed
The geological cartography of Italy at 50,000 (CARG Project) continues to be renewed
Mar 20, 2025 03:00 PM — Mar 20, 2025 05:00 PM Rome, Senate of the Republic

The press conference entitled: The geological cartography of Italy at 50,000 (CARG Project) continues to be renewed - Presentation of the geological sheets "Castel del Piano" and "Mirandola".

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First Forum on Biodiversity, Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services in the Po District
First Forum on Biodiversity, Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services in the Po District
Mar 12, 2025 — Mar 13, 2025 Milano, Fondazione Riccardo Catella, Via G. de Castillia 28

The Po River District Authority and the Foundation for Sustainable Development are organizing the First Forum on Biodiversity, Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services in the Po District on 12 and 13 March in Milano.

The Po River District Authority and the Foundation for Sustainable Development are collaborating on a research and development project for the valorization of biodiversity in the Po District, aimed at the implementation of territorial policies that combine biodiversity conservation and water protection, also in relation to ongoing climate changes

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