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Environment in Italy: an overview. Environmental Data Yearbook 2023

Environment in Italy: an overview. Environmental Data Yearbook 2023 is a statistical report produced by the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research(ISPRA) in collaboration with the regional and autonomous province environmental protection agencies as part of the National System for Environmental Protection (SNPA).

Sustainability Report 2023

The Sustainability Report (SB) is one of the Institute's most recent publications. It stems from the organizational innovation process that ISPRA has been implementing since 2019, in the belief that organizational models also need updating to meet the challenges of sustainability. A tool, the SB, also useful for integration between policies and strategies and for strengthening stakeholder participation. This year it is also in a condensed version and by chapters, with a renewed mode of use.

Atlas of Environmental Data. 2023 edition

The Atlas of environmental data, a volume that ISPRA publishes for the first time, offers an overview of the main environmental data. It provides cartographic representations showing the spatial distribution of the main environmental information which, together with graphs, tables and texts, illustrate the state of the entire national territory.

Guidelines on sectoral reference documents for EMAS

This Guideline represents the completion of the previous ISPRA Report “The Sectoral Reference Document for EMAS” to which the sheets relating to the other Sectoral Reference Documents published by the European Commission have been added. The document intends to encourage EMAS registered organizations, as required by the European Regulation itself, to make a wider and more widespread use of the Sectoral Reference Documents, issued by the European Commission in order to identify and promote the best environmental management practices, environmental performance for specific sectors and, where appropriate, examples of excellence that make it possible to determine the levels of environmental performance.

EMAS and climate change

This guideline takes the reader through the topic of climate change and its close interconnection with emission sources. Starting with the “Environmental Statements” of a sample of EMAS-certified power plants which produce electrical energy from fossil fuels it examines the CO 2 , NOx, CO and SO X emissions produced in the period between 2011 and 2019. The results show how the energy sector, thanks to the implementation of an Environmental Management System, can correctly manage air emissions and continuously improve on them.

ISPRA Sustainability Balance 2021

For the second consecutive year, ISPRA reports on the ways in which it contributes to sustainability, describing the direct impacts that the Institute creates in environmental, economic and social terms but above all highlighting how it supports other public institutions that affect the activities of companies and quality. of citizens' life.