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Territories and sustainable development objectives

The presentation event of the ASviS Report on Territories 2024 will be held on 13 December in Rome. The document illustrates, through data and graphs, the positioning of Regions, Provinces, metropolitan cities, urban areas and Municipalities with respect to the achievement of the 17 Development Objectives sustainability (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda, but not only.

The research also includes a review of international and European experiences of territorialization of the SDGs; explores the implementation of the National Strategy for Sustainable Development and its repercussions on local authorities; analyzes territorial inequalities and cohesion policies from both a European and national point of view; identifies the natural and anthropogenic risks that our country is facing, such as heat waves, desertification and forest fires. The final chapters are dedicated respectively to a selection of good practices already implemented in the territories and the ASviS proposals on priority themes.

The effects of the new European legislation on ecodesign and 'Green Claims' on voluntary EMAS, Ecolabel and Made Green in Italy certifications

The conference "The implications of the new European legislation on ecodesign and 'Green Claims' on voluntary EMAS, Ecolabel and Made Green in Italy certifications" will be held on 9 December in Florence, organized by the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security in collaboration with the Ecolabel and Ecoaudit Committee and with the Istituto Superiore S. Anna of Pisa. The event is dedicated to the examination of voluntary certification systems as fundamental tools for the competitiveness of companies in light of the recent regulatory developments that are emerging on the EU legislation front, starting from the new regulation on the Ecodesign of products (regulation EU 2024/1781) and the directives on “Greenwashing” and “Green Claims”.

Eco - Festival of Sustainable Mobility and Smart Cities

ECO, the Festival of Sustainable Mobility and Intelligent Cities which, after the first edition last year in Padova it will be held in Rome to analyze the state of the art of the ecological transition, will take place on 17 and 18 September at the Roman Aquarium in terms of transport of people and goods in Italy

Agriculture, biodiversity and sustainable development: scenarios and virtuous paths

Over time, agricultural activity has determined the modification of natural ecosystems, transforming and reorganizing them into systems in which the balance between natural elements is different from the original one, precisely due to the impact of human activities on the environment. The 2030 Agenda through the SDGs promotes, in particular, a transformative change in economies and societies by promoting a new approach at a global level that better integrates the protection of biodiversity with government policies.

Mobility and territory: towards more intelligent and sustainable mobility

The event, which will take place on May 23rd at the Tecnopolo in Reggio Emilia, aims to delve deeper into the characteristics, benefits and potential of Mobility Management, offering an overview of the latest experiences and solutions adopted at a national and international level. The results of UNIMORE research on the management of Mobility Management in companies will also be presented.

The environmental challenge for sustainable finance

Methodologies, information and environmental indicators

The event will be an opportunity for an analysis of the characteristics of the new European legislative framework on sustainable finance, within which tools have been introduced to reorient private sector investments towards sustainable activities.

The implementation of the legislation will lead to an expansion of the subjects involved in sustainability reporting which will go from the current 11,700 to around 50,000 companies at a European level and from around 200 companies to more than 4,000 at an Italian level.

During the event ISPRA will present a study on 'Environmental information for sustainable finance' in which it intends to provide useful and supportive elements to businesses, investors and banks, to correctly understand the contents of the information underlying environmental reporting and the ways to generate some of this information required by the new standards.

The event will also be a useful opportunity to stimulate discussion between institutional representatives, those from the business world and the banking/financial sector.

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CER - Sustainable Communities: opportunities and tools to enhance people and territories

The Conference is an important opportunity for discussion on the topic of Communities and in particular CER - Renewable Energy Communities - an innovative model of energy management that involves local public bodies, companies, commercial activities and private citizens, generating throughout the territory social and economic benefits.

Sustainable Development Festival 2024

The Sustainable Development Festival is promoted by the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS) with the aim of raising awareness among citizens, young generations, businesses, associations and institutions on the issues of economic, social and environmental sustainability.
An opportunity to spread the culture of sustainability and achieve a cultural change that allows Italy to implement the United Nations 2030 Agenda and achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Festival has also been recognized by the United Nations as an innovative and unique initiative at an international level, twice ranking as a finalist in the SDGs Action Awards.

Measuring EU Tourism Environmental Impacts: Setting the frame

The Webinar is organized by the group of experts of the Commission for the tourism ecosystem T4T (Together for Tourism), (in which ISPRA participates) established in June 2023 by DG GROW to assist the European Commission in the implementation of the transition pathway for tourism.

Bioeconomy Changemakers Festival

From 11 to 17 March 2024, the European Commission organized the Bioeconomy Changemakers Festival, a week of events on the bioeconomy to make young people more aware of the ecological and sustainable transition, and involve them personally as actors of change. APRE and FVA New Media Research with the GenB project, ScienzaInsieme, and Cluster SPRING, will organize the Italian satellite event “Bioeconomy Changemakers Festival – Rome Edition”.

On-line the new environmental indicators data base ISPRA

An effective tool to understand the state of the environment in Italy
Developed with a view to improvement, to face increasingly pressing environmental challenges and to satisfy new knowledge needs, including future scenarios, the ISPRA environmental indicators database disseminates detailed statistical information in a dynamic and timely manner characterized by a high scientific solidity.

Green and health are the future of our cities

As part of the Myplant & Garden event (International Green Expo) at the Milan - Rho fair, the conference "Green and health are the future of our cities" will be held on 21 February which sees the participation of operators and experts from the sector at national and international level who will discuss with the local administrators of the cities of Avellino, Milan, Turin and Rome. ISPRA will illustrate the PNRR-PNC project "The good use of green and blue spaces for the promotion of well-being and health (VeBS)", started in 2013.

ISPRA joins the communication campaign "M'illumino di meno"

National day of energy saving and sustainable lifestyles
M'illumino di Meno is the "National Day of Energy Saving and Sustainable Lifestyles" that Rai Radio 2 with Caterpillar has organized annually since 2005 to spread the culture of environmental sustainability and resource saving. “No borders”, in fact, is the title of the twentieth edition of the initiative that looks far ahead and extinguishes borders. Inviting everyone to seek international alliances in their membership, through twinning for municipalities, international projects for schools, universities and research, offices abroad for companies.

February 5, the ISPRA - MIMIT campaign for the day dedicated to food waste

National Food Waste Prevention Day is celebrated on February 5th. This anniversary has a clear reference to concrete actions and behaviors to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN Agenda for 2030, in particular 12.3: "halve food waste by 2030".
ISPRA in collaboration and with the financing of MIMIT - Ministry of Made in Italy has created the Let's Circulate campaign to raise consumer awareness on this issue and highlight the impacts that food waste has on the environment

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Territories and sustainable development goals

The presentation of the ASviS Report on Territories 2023 will be held on 13 December in Rome. The document illustrates, through data and graphs, the positioning of regions, provinces, metropolitan cities, urban areas and municipalities with respect to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 'Agenda 2030, signed in 2015 by 193 United Nations countries including Italy to guarantee the sustainability of development on an environmental, social and economic level.

21 November - World Tree Day

ISPRA will participate in World Tree Day as part of the citizen science project on urban microforests organized by La Sapienza University.
For the occasion, it would be faced the Let's Circular campaign and the tree as the natural symbol par excellence of the "circular" model that regenerates life.

Let's circulate. Your actions matter

October 24th is the key stage of the Let's Circular campaign created by ISPRA in collaboration and with the financing of MIMIT - Ministry of Business and Made in Italy.
The event, organized at ISPRA to underline the openness of our Institute to the various stakeholders, was born with a very specific objective: to take stock of the most important stages of the Let's Circular campaign, which began in 2021.
Let's Circulate has two key themes on which ISPRA has made the expertise of its experts available: separate waste collection and food waste.

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RemTech Expo 2023

From 20 to 22 September in Ferrara the XVII Edition of RemTech Expo will be held, the Environmental Technological Hub specialized in the themes of recovery, regeneration and sustainable development of territories. Also this year ISPRA will participate in numerous meetings.

European Mobility Week 2023

The 2023 theme is - Saving Energy.
Why is it important to save energy for urban mobility according to the European Commission?
Energy and mobility poverty are on the rise due to higher costs for residents and businesses.
The management of public transport has reached a high level of spending on city budgets. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is crucial to reduce our dependence on Russian oil and switch to sustainable energy sources.
The climate crisis is ever present and we need a carbon neutral Europe by 2050

The giant leap. An Earth for all

The conference, organized by ASviS as part of the 2023 Sustainable Development Festival, is an opportunity to present the position paper "The giant leap - new global policies to meet the challenge of our time", realized as part of the Group's activities ASviS work on Goals 6-14-15. The document offers an overview of how to change the economic paradigm and pursue the policies related to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.

ISPRA and ACI sign a memorandum of understanding to encourage sustainable mobility

The President of ISPRA Stefano Laporta and the President of ACI Angelo Sticchi Damiani have signed a three-year memorandum of understanding, aimed at promoting collaboration on sustainable mobility. In particular, each with their own skills and institutional purposes, they will provide knowledge and professionalism to improve mobility in terms of safety and environmental sustainability.

Greenwashing and social washing, an obstacle to the just ecological transition

The term "sustainability", in Italy as in the world, is by now inflated, widespread among politics, the media, schools, the advertising world. The risk is that this word could lose its effectiveness and be used improperly. And not only in the case of communication strategies with misleading messages from an environmental point of view (greenwashing), but also when these operations concern the social plan (social washing). ASviS has actively contributed to the dissemination of the values ​​of the 2030 Agenda in society: now the time has come to safeguard them, identifying false cases and promoting the more valid ones. To do this, it is necessary to equip oneself with analysis tools, strengthen the multi-stakeholder approach and produce concrete actions, such as a pact between consumers and producers against greenwashing.

Communicate the environment

As part of the Rome Science Festival (18-23 April 2023), at the Auditorium Parco della Musica it will be held the second preparatory event of the SNPA National Conference "Communicate the environment" (Wednesday 19 April from 9.30 to 14) with some protagonists of the world of information and environmental divulgation to analyze how we are reporting the environment through the media and how we will be called to do so in the future.

This event will be an opportunity to discuss how to make environmental information and think about current events, also in the light of the rediscovered space that science has had after the pandemic, in a context particularly suitable for talking about these issues which is the annual appointment with the Rome Science Festival.

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39th plenary meeting of the EPA Network

ISPRA President Stefano Laporta and General Director  Maria Siclari attended the 39th plenary meeting of the EPA Network in Brussels. Among the topics addressed, the need to develop cooperation and the arguments of the interest group on sustainable finance and to make it more effective for the stakeholders involved. ISPRA is working on green finance with a task force to help operators understand environmental data.

Urban ecosystem and sustainable development goals

Thematic insight into the UN sustainability goals
Legambiente is organizing a webinar on 21 February  to analyze the sustainability objectives indicated by the UN.
Furthermore, the Urban Ecosystem 2022 report dedicated to the comparison of the UN Sustainable Development Goals will be presented.

Choosing how to measure sustainability

Guidelines for an informed choice of methods for measuring corporate sustainability
In the last thirty years, the theme of sustainability and holistic models for measuring the performance of organizations have been at the center of the research and promotion of virtuous management systems by the University Consortium in Engineering for Quality and Innovation , for short QUINN (formerly Qualital).
The guidelines are a new element to support businesses, especially SMEs, in the process of improving their competitiveness.
In the development of this research, ISPRA was involved with a leading role with which the QUINN university consortium has had a collaboration protocol in the field of research and training for years.

Path to a Just Transition Innovation and Internazional Cooperation

V edition of the International Sustainability Forum
We cannot afford the costs of a messy and unjust transition. Similarly, we cannot afford the current trend of growth in climate-changing gas emissions. So the transition is more necessary than ever.
But what is the 'Just Transition'? If, how much and, above all, how are we going or should we go in this direction? This is the question at the basis of the next International Sustainability Forum organized by Fortune Italia which will take place after the conclusion of COP27 in Egypt.

Territories and sustainable development goals

Presentation of the 3rd ASviS Report on the sustainability of the Territories
The presentation of the ASviS Report on Territories 2022 will be held on Tuesday 6 December at 10.00. The document includes a review of the international and European experiences of territorialisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN Agenda 2030 and the state of implementation of the National Strategy , regional strategies and metropolitan agendas for sustainable development.

Sustainable mobility in urban areas: the current situation and future prospects

The issue of sustainable mobility is one of the most important challenges that urban areas are called to face. Excessive use of private vehicles is responsible for emissions of polluting and climate-altering gases into the atmosphere, accidents, noise pollution.

The conference aims to enhance all aspects of sustainable mobility that are addressed by stakeholders. Interventions are planned to illustrate the trend of emissions related to transport and the scenarios envisaged based on the most recent national regulatory acts (ISPRA), data on the car fleet and accidents (ACI), data on shared mobility (Observatory on sharing mobility) and on local public transport (ASSTRA), data on consumption and energy efficiency in the transport sector (ENEA).

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Strategies for a sustainable infrastructure

The event will be dedicated to the theme of sustainable infrastructures, a transversal element for the entire 2030 Agenda. The first part is dedicated to the Position Paper of sustainable infrastructures, which will be presented by the Coordinator of the WG Goal 9 and by the other Coordinators of the WGs most relevant to the theme.