Events and News

2022 Ecolabel Award - 30 years of EU Ecolabel. Analysis and perspectives

On 14 October ISPRA and the Ecolabel and Ecoaudit Committee present the fifth edition of the "Ecolabel Award 2022 - 30 years of EU Ecolabel. Analysis and perspectives ”, in the Villa Celimontana in Rome, headquarters of the Italian Geographic Society.

The event that rewards the Italian companies that have distinguished themselves for an effective dissemination and promotion of the "EU Ecolabel" brand for certified products and services, will also be an opportunity to celebrate 30 years of the EU Ecolabel and promote the exchange of experiences and the birth of cooperations between companies that with dedication and commitment have believed in this tool and have spread the knowledge among consumers.

The new national strategy for sustainable development

Evaluations on the new indications in terms of measurement of sustainable development
The event, organized by Istat and ASviS, is an opportunity to investigate the issues related to the measurement of sustainable development, with particular reference to new information needs.

50 years lost, how is the soil?

The first part of the event reminds us that 2022 is a special year: 50 years have passed since the 1972 UN Conference in Stockholm, where the economic and environmental dimensions were first connected; 50 years have passed since the publication of the famous report "Limits to growth" of the Club of Rome; 30 years have passed since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit; the world is halfway to achieving the 2030 Agenda Goals set in 2015. The panel aims to show the unsustainability of an economic model that continues to guide the action of governments around the world, despite being at least 50 years that the consequences dictated by business as usual are known.
In the second part of the event the issue of soil degradation will be addressed.

Indicators, indices and scenarios for the analysis of the main environmental trends

On 28 September ISPRA is presenting the methodological document "Indicators, index and scenarios for the analysis of the main environmental trends". The publication analyzes the main emerging environmental issues (natural capital, climate change, circular economy and environment and health) through three different approaches whose common thread is the use of the indicators present in the Environmental indicators database.

The first relates the trends of the environmental indicators and the regulatory changes of reference, the second proposes a description of the trends of the main environmental issues using composite index, finally, the third describes the process of construction of environmental scenarios.

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Indicators, indices, and future studies for the analysis of the main environmental trends

Green city: the color of the urban sustainability - Scientific aperitif

Creating environmental and social conditions to develop sustainable cities and communities is one of the challenges we are called to respond to in the near future. Nature-based solutions, inspired by the functioning of natural ecosystems, can be an active tool for sustainable management of urban areas, to address in an integrated way the environmental and social problems caused by global and climate change

Walking through the environment

“Walking through the environment” is an ISPRA publication aimed at an audience of young students and non-experts. The Ministry of education recognizes it as a contribution to the “RiGenerazione Scuola” National Plan.
The virtual walk stretches through six environmental paths: Crossing the city; Trip to the countryside; Towards the sea; Going up the river; Back home, it comes full circle; Education, a sustainability agenda.

International conference on Sustainability Analysis regard theoretical perspectives and tools for policy makers, ICSA 2022

The SIS DIAS group - Data, Indicators and Analysis for Sustainability of the Italian Statistical Society and the Department of Social Sciences and Economics of the Sapienza University of Rome will organize the First International Conference on Sustainability Analysis regard theoretical perspectives on 14 and 15 July and tools for policy makers, ICSA 2022.

Presentation of the SNPA Report "Cities in transition: the Italian capitals towards environmental sustainability"

Online event for the presentation of the Report of the National System for Environmental Protection (SNPA) "Cities in transition: the Italian capitals towards environmental sustainability" which proposes, for the first time, a transversal reading of the quality of the urban environment through three different interpretative keys - livability, circularity and resilience to climate change - evaluating its evolution in recent years.

The event will be an opportunity to present the products realized, the evaluation methodology adopted and the main results emerged, with the aim of promoting a discussion between experts and administrators on emerging environmental challenges in the Italian regional capitals.

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Città in transizione: i capoluoghi italiani verso la sostenibilità ambientale. Documento di valutazione integrata della qualità dell’ambiente urbano

Città in transizione: i capoluoghi italiani verso la sostenibilità ambientale. Documento di valutazione integrata della qualità dell’ambiente urbano. Documento di sintesi

Video "Città in transizione"

Video "Città vivibili"

Video "Città circolari"

Comunicato stampa

The Multipass project in support of the Regional Sustainable Development Strategy

The meeting aims is to involve the social actors in the process of supporting the Basilicata Regional Landscape Plan, through the promotion and dissemination of the "Multipass Project" portal tool, which allows to report areas and assets of particular worthy landscape interest of protection.

On the road to sustainability: hydrogen destination

The role of hydrogen will be decisive in the energy transition process to decarbonise the so-called 'hard to abate' sectors, such as heavy industry, road transport of goods and, in a second phase, also shipping and aviation. A recognized role of Europe with its strategy for H2, and also of Italy, which has allocated over 3.5 billion euros in PNRR for the development of this sector.

The new issue of the online periodical "Innovations for environmental sustainability" is online

The number 1/2022 of the periodical "Innovations for environmental sustainability" is available on the website of the GELSO database (Local Management for Environmental Sustainability). The upcoming issue is dedicated to the topic of indoor air quality and analyzes some initiatives to identify the causes of the spread of pollutants in indoor air and possible interventions aimed at reducing their presence, with specific reference to school buildings.

Publication of the Position Paper: "Urban and periurban green infrastructures" of ASvis

Published the Position Paper "Urban and peri-urban green infrastructures" coordinated by ISPRA within the Working Group on Goal 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) of ASviS - Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development. The document aims to take stock of the policies in place in terms of urban forestation and the increase of greenery in the city and on the tools to enhance the environmental benefits

Fair, healthy and sustainable food for 2030

The agri-food system plays a central role in everyone's life but consumes resources and pollutes our planet. Part of the world population suffers from hunger, while the western one experiences an obesity epidemic and wastes large quantities of food resources

A sustainable transiction. Landscape, cities and work that are changing

Award ceremony of the 5th edition of the Quotidiano Energia photo contest
The webinar will be held on February 24 in which the winning photos of the contest will be awarded. The photographs that entered the competition had to illustrate examples of sustainable transition. Territories that change to host the many renewable plants necessary to reach the expected targets, industrial plants that are innovated, new forms of mobility and transport, cities that change to be restored.

International day of Women and Girls in Science

The International Day of Women and Girls in Science was established in 2015 by the UN National Assembly, and sponsored by UNESCO, to raise awareness and inviting member states, universities, society in general "to promote the full and equal participation of women and girls in science, education, training, employment and decision-making processes ".

Online the new web site of the GELSO data base

The new website of the GELSO Management Local Sustainable database is online, renewed in graphics and contents. GELSO is an environmental information tool that proposes an integrated approach to sustainability starting from issues that represent key nodes for environmental policies on a local scale such as the circular economy, smart cities and climate change. 

Expo Consumers 4.0

Expo Consumatori 4.0 is the great event dedicated to consumers. The common thread will be “happy growth”, understood as the founding paradigm of sustainable and supportive development. The topic will be analyzed during the three planned days, to understand as the continuous "growth" in the use of new eco-compatible technologies, in new studies and new techniques that are revolutionizing our life, everyday life and the future of each of us by doing “Decrease” the negative externalizes of an economy incompatible with the planet and the beings that inhabit it.

The territories and the sustainable development targets

Presentation of the new ASviS Report on the Territories and the 2030 Agenda
On 2 December ASVIS will disclose the results of the second edition of the Report on the Territories, a tool that aims to measure the positioning of local authorities with respect to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda.

ISPRA's public value for sustainability. What contribution to effective implementation of the PNRR?

The pandemic has accelerated the review of organizational processes in many public and private entities. ISPRA started an organizational innovation process already in July 2019, with the aim of making its processes functional to the needs of the main stakeholders and to enhance the skills in sustainable development necessary to achieve the objectives of the 2030 Agenda and the European Green Deal.

Emas Ecolabel Award 2021

The Ecolabel and Ecoaudit Committee and ISPRA are pleased to give recognition and visibility to certified organizations by rewarding those that have best interpreted and applied the inspiring principles of the EMAS scheme and the EU Ecolabel.

UNITUS-ISPRA conference: "The development of tourism companies in the perspective of sustainability. The state of the art, perspectives and new tools of the circular economy"

The circular economy and sustainability assume, today, a fundamental role through the PNRR (National Recovery and Resilience Plan). The achievement of the environmental objectives must also concern the tourism sector, together with the issues of environmental sustainability, climate change and the protection of biodiversity as indicated in the G20 Tourism.

Green Blue Days

Green Blue Days is a forum in the form of talks structured over several days, where you can share experiences, propose solutions, to integrate the culture of Green-Blue in every aspect of life. The event aims to address a series of issues related to environmental sustainability - such as the UN Agenda 2030, ecological transition and digital transformation, social agriculture, sustainable tourism, architecture and territory, circular economy, end of waste, sustainable design and fashion, anti food waste, smart cities and green mobility with the aim of promoting a change that is above all cultural and social.

The Sustainable Development Festival 2021

Now in its fifth edition, the Sustainable Development Festival is the biggest Italian initiative to raise awareness and mobilize citizens, young generations, businesses, associations and institutions on the issues of economic, social and environmental sustainability, spread the culture of sustainability and make a change cultural and political that allows Italy to implement the United Nations 2030 Agenda and achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Voluntary tools for sustainability: EMAS, EU Ecolabel and sustainable events

The conference, organized by the Festival dei Due Mondi of Spoleto in collaboration with ISPRA, aim to promote the comparison between Umbrian institutions and companies engaged in environmental and social issues regarding voluntary instruments (EMAS, Ecolabel , certification of sustainable events) to promote sustainability in the production, tourism and recreational sectors.

3rd Seminar OCSE on indicators for the sustainability and the policy coherence

The seminar "Connecting the existing evaluation and monitoring mechanisms related to sustainability within the revision of the National Sustainable Development Strategy and towards the PCSD Action Plan" will be held on 17 June, in English language in a online platform. It's the last event organized by OCSE in cooperation with the MiTe in the frame of the PCSD project “Policy coherence for sustainable development: mainstreaming the SDGs in Italian decision making process"

Agents of change and skills for sustainability

Value and meaning of educational transformation
The Italian Sustainability Science Association (IASS), at the end of the Erasmus + A Rounder Sense of Purpose (RSP) project is organizing a webinar to present the results of the project, relating to a skills model for sustainability education, based on UNEP's "Learning for the future" research. The model is applicable to all those contexts, educational, social, economic, in which there is a need to support the processes of change to sustainability

Destination tourism. Tools and opportunities to restart

Digitization, sustainability, innovation: these are the keywords for the restart of tourism, one of the sectors most affected by the Covid 19 pandemic. To stimulate operators to think about the future and prepare to face a new way of traveling, the Enterprise Europe Network Italia promotes "Destination Tourism", a cycle of thematic webinars that in 2021 will address various topics of interest for this strategic sector

Breath festival

Promoting the health culture and improve the sustainable tourism

The national project  Borghi del Respiro aims intends to enhance the vitality and livability of small municipalities in hilly or mountainous sparsely populated areas in which the regulatory standards defined by Legislative Decree 155/2010 are respected for the main pollutants, for the protection of human health and vegetation, in the principles of Sustainable Development defined by AGENDA 2030, with particular regard to the protection of respiratory health.

Strategic structures and safety for the environment

Strategic infrastructures must meet environmental control safety parameters. The day, organized by Canale Energia, will illustrate a picture of current jurisprudence and the event will end with a round table between the various players in infrastructure and environmental controls such as: Assocostieri, Unem, ISPRA.

An ISPRA expert is partipating at the event.

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EMAS and circular economy. Stakeholders meeting

Dialogue with the public and stakeholders is, together with the improvement of environmental performance, the main objective of the EC Regulation 1221/2009 EMAS, whose general approach is based on the need for sharing, credibility and transparency. The Ecolabel Ecoaudit Committee, with the technical support of ISPRA, organized a discussion table via streaming on the theme "EMAS and Circular Economy" in order to offer at the organizations the opportunity to share concrete experiences of Circular Economy implemented in their own reality, highlighting the relationship with the EMAS Scheme, and making any proposals and suggestions to strengthen its effectiveness.