Events and News

Desertification and Drought Day 2021

The theme chosen this year for Desertification and Drought Day, in analogy with the start of the UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration, will focus on the transformation of degraded land, which guarantees economic resilience, creates jobs, increases income and food security, helps restore biodiversity, stores carbon, slows down climate change and reduces its impacts, and supports green recovery from the pandemic.

Agreencoltura hi-tech supply chains for quality and adaptation to climate change

Earth Tech Expo will be held in Florence from 13 to 16 October 2021. The “technological showcase” of the Next Generation Eu. The first Expo of the "digital and ecological transition". Italian technological leadership on display with exhibitions, conferences, presentations, links, all the news from the Italian Space Agency, research bodies, universities, companies and companies, spin offs, start-ups, regions and local authorities in all sectors.

Climate crisis and environmental emergency: why do we underestimate it? What do we risk?

On May 20 in the whole of the Rifestival - An Other World is Possible, it will be held the webinar "Climate crisis and environmental emergency: why do we underestimate it? What do we risk?" conducted by Luca Mercalli, climatologist and scientific advisor of ISPRA, to underline the importance of rethinking our way of living and producing to reduce the anthropogenic impact on the environment.

How to manage climate change challenge in Europe

From 18 to 20 May 2021 the European Conference of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) "virtually" hosted by Italy

The climate is changing! Local adaptions experiences

The Italian conferences of project Adriadapt the  will present the local experiences after 2 years of works on the urban adaptions and of the knowledge to lead the Municipalities of the Adriatic area in the definition and implementation of resilience plans. The event is an opportunity to think about the different experiences and aims to launch a debate with the delegates of national and regional authorities and on the potential tool to support the local adaption. 

Webinar Project SOMMIT

The purpose of the webinar is to provide an overview of 2006 IPCC guidelines for national GHG Inventories (and 2019 refinement) for the estimation of soil’s carbon stock changes and non-CO2 emissions from agricultural soils.

Climate change in the coastal and transition areas: scenarios and impacts on the Po Delta

The Veneto region is organizing a meeting in the frame of the CHANGE WE CARE european project, in order to assess the climate change in the coastal areas. The project's target is to provide guidelines of integrated planning to answer at the climate modification on the long period, specially in the Po Delta

Trend of atmospheric emissions and scenarios in Italy. Focus on road transport

ISPRA is inviting the public to follow in the 15 and 16 April the streaming dedicated to the data and information related to the emissions situation in Italy. It will be illustrated the trend from 1990 to 2019 of the greenhouse gases and other pollutants plus the scenarios until 2050. A global frame and in deep of the Italian situation, with also a focus on the second day on road transport.

Programme 15 april

Programme 16 april

Italian Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990-2019. National Inventory Report 2021

Italian Emission Inventory 1990-2019. Informative Inventory Report 2021

Strategies for a sustainable city: Turin chooses the green

During the webinar numerous national and local experts will talk about urban planning, green public and climate change. A special occasion to get in deep with the sustainability challenges and discover the actions carried out by Turin city to improve the life quality of their citizens. 

Pollen and climate change: scenarios and prespectives

The seminar aims to promote and support the research in Italy, according to SNPA lines, of all the scientific communities that work on aerobiology,  to share new updating and analyze future scenarios.

Portrait of the Week

Each week, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification publishes the image and a description of people who play an important role in promoting the Convention goals. The month of March is dedicated to women and this Friday the Portrait of the Week is reserved to three women who are part of the Science Policy Interface, two eminent researchers, Nichole Barger and Everlyne Nairesiae, and one expert of ISPRA, Anna Luise.

Presentation of the ISPRA report. Status and trend of the main allergenic pollens in Italy (2003-2019)

On February 26, 2021, ISPRA will present the first national report on allergenic pollens in Italy. In fact, the Institute carries out monitoring, analysis and evaluation of allergenic pollens in Italy and coordinates the POLLnet network which collect the main experts in the sector of the regional agencies and autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano for environmental protection.

The report describes the state and trend of the main allergenic taxa present in Italy  from 2003 to 2019. During the event will be illustrated the knowledge on the main allergenic species present in Italy and the relationship between pollen and health.

Programme

Status and trend of the main allergenic pollens in Italy (2003-2019)

Video of the meeting

Progettazione agronomica del verde e allergie (Renato Ferretti)

Wood biomass and the mitigation of the climate crisis : opportunity or problem ?

Woody biomass currently are the most important source of renewable energy in the EU and in Italy and represents an indispensable resource to achieve the European targets for "energy and climate change" which plan to rise from the current 18% of energy from renewable sources to 32% in 2030.

Caring for soil is caring for life

On the 24 Febraury in the frame of Horizon Europe activities, the Italian Ministry University and Research in cooperation with Santa Chiara Lab - University of Siena, APRE and Re Soil foundation is organizing the event: "Caring for soil is caring for life".

Greenhouse gas emissions: in 2020 estimated reduction of 9.8% compared to 2019

Based on the data available for 2020, a substantial reduction in greenhouse gas emissions at the national level is estimated, mainly due to the COVID-19 restrictions. Although the information necessary for a definitive estimate are still partial, in the past year emissions in Italy were 9.8% lower than in 2019, compared to an expected reduction in GDP of 8.9%.

Implementation of an innovative system for monitoring the sea state in climate change scenarios

In the last decades, as a results of the climate change, extreme weather and marine events have also intensified in the Sicily Channel, increasingly the need to develop actions to reduce the coastal risk. However, the current data provided by the various networks for surveying the sea  state in the channel are not exhaustive of the phenomenon.

Europe and the United States, how climate changes

The Biden age and the Paris agreement, which scenarios for the climate change?

The President of ISPRA Stefano Laporta is participating at the meeting.

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.