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The global commitment to contrast climate change and pandemic

Organized by the Green Economy Observatory of the Bocconi University, the seminar dedicated to climate change will be held on January 20 at 2.30 pm.

Companies for the Carta of Spoleto

The good practices of public bodies and private companies for the signing of "Carta of Spoleto against climate change".
As part of the Weather Spoleto 2020 event, the workshop for the signing of the “Carta di Spoleto” will be held on 18 December.

National methodologies for adaptation to climate change: planning for a local scale

The conference is dedicated to the presentation of the methodology developed by Line 5 of the Creiamo PA Project for the definition of adaptation plans and paths on a local scale.
The document was developed a series of actions and projects activated by Italian cities and European and international collaboration networks that work for the resilience of urban areas and local communities.

Clear improvement in air quality in Europe over the last decade: fewer deaths related to pollution

Thanks to better air quality, around 60,000 fewer people died prematurely due to fine particulate matter pollution in 2018, compared with 2009. However, the European Environment Agency's (EEA) latest official data show that almost all Europeans still suffer from air pollution, leading to about 400,000 premature deaths across the continent. 

Analysis and effects of climate change in the Mediterranean environment

The seminar is organized by SIGEA Italian Society of Environmental Geology in cooperation with RemTech Expo and the National Council of Geologists. Four in-depth sessions: Geo-hydrological instability; Agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry; Quantity and quality of water, health and quality of life; Natural and cultural heritage, economy and tourism.

National Geographic Festival of Sciences- Climate change and the sustainable future: from space to our home

In the whole of the initiatives of the National Geographic Festival the next 26 November will be held the online event: "Climate change and the sustainable future: from space to our home".  
Climate services make produce a series of data to know the climate of the past, present and future at the local and global level, and allow public and private decision makers to have tools to develop strategies and initiatives to successfully face climate change.

National methodologies for adaptation to climate change: planning for adaptation on a regional scale

The Ministry of the Environment, Land and Sea, has launched an institutional process to spread the culture of adaptation to climate change at the regional and local level and overcoming the territorial disparities in this matter, in line with the contents of the National Strategy of Adaptation to climate change (SNAC) and the National Adaptation Plan (PNACC), currently being approved. This path is the basis of the activities of the Intervention Line 5 "Strengthening administrative capacity for adaptation to climate change" of the "CReIAMO PA" Project, to develop skills, defining and disseminating methodologies for adapting to climate change.

The climate has already changed

Impact, risks and policies for the adaptation
The 25 november in streaming live on Facebook page of Legambiente will be presented the report 2020 of the Observatory of Legambiente Climate City and the ten years of impacts monitoring on the Italian territory.

Urgent need to improve adaptation to climate change in European cities

Despite the increasing awareness of climate change impacts and the need to adapt, many of Europe’s cities and towns are struggling to handle the impacts of heatwaves, severe droughts and destructive floods. Two European Environment Agency (EEA) reports published today stress the urgent need for action to improve adaptation and resilience at local and national government levels.

ISPRA has been involved for years on the theme of adaptation with the aim of strengthening and improving knowledge on the impacts of climate change and to develop tools, methodological approaches, guidelines to support a more adequate implementation of adaptation to various levels of governance.

National conference on climate 2000: a roadmap for Italy

The National Climate Conference, to be held from 13 to 16 October, is the most important event of the year of Italy for climate, an initiative promoted by  Sustainable Development Foundation and by a group of companies in preparation of COP26, with the patronage of the Ministry of the Environment, ENEA and ISPRA, in collaboration with Regeneration 20 | 30, with the partnership of ANSA and with the support of SapereAmbiente, aims to become a reference event on the performance of Italy related to climate objectives.

Emissions of most harmful air pollutants dropped in 2018, marking EU progress under UN Convention

Life Master Adapt: on line the video of the project

MASTER ADAPT, project co-funded by LIFE Programme EU, aims to develop an integrated and operative methodology so that Regions, metropolitan cities and consortium can include in their planning the climate change adapting as an key element in their territories. 

Launched the project interreg ADRIACLIM to develop monitoring tools and adapting strategies to contrast climate change in the Adriatic area

The project AdriaCLim "Tools of information, monitoring and climate change for the adapting strategies in the Adriatic coast areas is funded by the cooperation programme Interreg Italy-Croatia and it is coordinated by Arpae and involves 19 partner between research institutes, universities, and companies of both Countries.

Climate in Italy: 2019 the hottest third year since 1961. New absolute record for June

Online the Report Ispra "Climate indicators in Italy in 2019"

The year 2019 ranks at the third place among the hottest years since 1961, with an anomaly peak in June: + 4.25 ° C in the North, + 4.0 ° C in the Center, + 3.27 ° C in the South and Islands. The heat was particularly intense between 26 and 29 June, when new absolute temperature records were recorded in various locations in the north-west and in the Alpine sector, with peaks of 40 ° C in the plains and 35-36 ° C at about 1000 m of altitude.
The 15th report "Gli Indicatori del Clima in Italia" describes the Italian climate in the year 2019 and updates the estimate of climate variations in the last few decades. It is based on climate data, indices and indicators derived from the "National System for the collection, processing and dissemination of climate data" (SCIA) developed  by ISPRA in collaboration with national and regional meteorological monitoring networks.

Can we prevent future pandemics? Biodiversity instead of masks

We do not have to go back to the normality because the normality is the problem and anythings of things we are doing right now can't prevent the next pandemic. Climate change contrast, Protection of Biodiversity and Environment, Sustainable Economy, are the main topics of the webinar organized in the whole of the Rivestiti Festival 2020

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

The world day promoted by United Nations to combat against desertification and drought is celebrated every June 17, with the aim to make people aware on the international efforts to fight the desertification and its effects, and that it's needed an strong involvement of the community and cooperation at any levels. This year the theme for the World Day of Desertification and Drought is (Food-Feed-Fiber) with the aim of raising public awareness of those unsustainable forms of production and consumption that contribute to soil degradation and consumption of water resources.

Presentation of the SOER 2020, Environmental Data Yearbook and System Reports

The next 3 June, in video streaming with the Italian PM Giuseppe Conte, and David Sassoli, President of the European Parliament, will be presented the three reports dedicated to the environmental situation in Europe and in Italy: the SOER 2020 (State of the Environment Report), the Environmental Data Yearbook 2019 which shows the state of the environment in Italy and the System Report which presents regional experiences.

Watch streaming live:

ISPRA TV (double channel in English and Italian) 

Facebook page Ispra (speaker' native language)

 Youtube Ispra (only in italian)

Plan the adaptation of cities. What strategies and what costs?

The emission in atmosphere in Italy

Videoconference, 21 april

The trend of national greenhouse gas emissions. Focus on emissions from agriculture and livestock. The contribution of indirect effect gases and particulates matter.

Next 21 April, ISPRA will presents a videoconference that describe the emission trend in Italy: a global and detailed picture of the Italian situation on the trend of greenhouse gases from 1990 to 2018, a preliminary estimate for 2019 and some considerations on the first quarter of 2020 An in-depth analysis on the main emissive activities of the agriculture sector and to the  mitigation systems will follow. The day includes also final analysis of the other gases that have an effect on the climate but also on air pollution in the strict sense, up to the particulate matter, also considering in this case the historical series from 1990 to 2018 and focusing the main drivers that influenced the trends analyzed.

Scientific experiment off La Spezia to measure sea level

Italy's experience on sustainable bioenergy development and role the of GBEP within the international context

The Climate Conference in Paris: implications for Italy and the European Union

Meteorology Festival