October

EcoForum. Circular economy business: rules, plants and products

Oct 21, 2020 09:30 AM to Oct 22, 2020 02:00 PM — Streaming live,

Legambiente, Nuova Ecologia and Kyoto Club, in cooperation with CONOU and with the patronage of the Italian Ministry of the Environment, Land and Sea is organizing the seventh edition of EcoForum, the national conference on the circular economy. At the end of the two days of work, the XXVII edition of Comuni Ricicloni takes place, the awarding of the Free Waste Municipalities.

Natura 2000 + 20: sea best practices. After 12 years since D.M 184/2007

Oct 21, 2020 from 11:00 AM to 01:00 PM

The event will be an opportunity to celebrate the twelve years of the D.M. 184/2007 which established the 'Natura 2000 Network'. The decree has strengthened in Italy the protection of the biodiversity of flora and fauna in the Special Conservation Areas (ZPC) and in the Special Protection Areas (SPA) and today it is fundamental for the protection of the valuable areas of the Mare Nostrum, aslo with the recognition of the most important Important Marine Areas.

Green Week 2020

The EU Green Week Conference, the central event to promote European Union environmental policy is taking place from 19 to 22 October 2020.The message is A NEW BEGINNING FOR PEOPLE AND NATURE.

National Geographic Festival of Sciene - Aliens alarms

Oct 21, 2020 from 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM — online event,

Fighting invasive species through the involvement of society and the enhancement of local knowledge A wew online appointment with Ispra and National Geographic Festival of Sciences. A two-way dialogue with the Institute's experts to understand how much and why it is fundamental to fight the phenomenon of invasive alien species, both terrestrial and marine, through conscious and responsible behavior. The video produced by Ispra will be broadcast on the Festival website and Facebook page.

World statistics day. The sustainable restart

Oct 20, 2020 — online event,

Today 20 October is the World statistics day, the Society of Italian Statistic (SIS), together with the President of Italian Council and in cooperation with Istat, have organized the conference:"The sustainable restart".

The urban regeneration for the ecological transition

Oct 22, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM — Webinar,

In the future cities will be always more interested in regeneration actions for objectives such as energy efficiency, urban forestry, sustainable mobility. The webinar focuses on planning actions and administrative skills useful for cities to face for the challenge of ecological transition.

Gpp, and advantage for Italy

During the meeting between the Ministry of the Environment and companies on the next decrees End of waste to be approved, decrees, Ispra plays a fundamental role of connection. Once the process for waste paper and cardboard has been completed, Ispra has released a technical opinion on the regulatory schemes that concerns mixed plastics, street sweeping waste, or construction and demolition waste, sanitary glass and the lead crayon.

EICAT, a method to classify the alien species impacts

IUCN Global Standard for classifying the severity and type of impacts caused by alien species, known as the Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT).

panGea: geoscience without borders

Oct 23, 2020 from 09:30 AM to 12:30 PM — Event on line,

The application of SSAM (Spatial Sustainable Assessment Model) in the local planning for sustainable development

Oct 28, 2020 from 09:30 AM to 01:00 PM — Streaming live,

The conference is organized as part of the formulation process of the Regional Sustainable Development Strategy of Umbria to promote a comparison between regional and national institutions on the progress of the activities, the indicators for monitoring the strategies objectives, the tools available for the integrated (environmental, economic and social) analysis of the expected and realized results, and perspectives of local planning with the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda.

A resource not to be wasted: towards a common policy for the integrity of the seabed in the Mediterranean Sea

Oct 28, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 01:00 PM — online event,

The objectives of the HARMONY Project are the protection of marine biodiversity by assessing seabed integrity and the presence of nonindigenous species (NIS) in the Italo-Maltese cross-border area, promoting the development of coordinated strategies and shared decision making processes.

Presentation of the IPBES report: links between biodiversity and pandemics

The new report that focus on biodiversity and pandemics of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has been presented in streaming from Bonn. The report is the result of a seminar, organized in July where prestigious scientists convened from every part of the world. The report is a fundamental scientific contribution to help to better understand the new pandemics and to contrast them in the future. Ispra, for behalf of the Italian Ministry of the Environment, Land and Sea, with three experts as a National Focal Point of IPBES, have edited the peer-reviewed the report.

Soil protection: conservation and renaturalization

Nov 13, 2020 from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM

As part of the Biennale Tecnologia event, organized by the Politecnico di Torino, the online event "In the future will we eat cement? soil protection: conservation and renaturalization" will be held on 13 November. The ISPRA 2019 report places Turin among the cities where land consumption has stopped. This is the demonstration that it is possible to reverse the dynamics in Italy, one of the largest consumers of soil in the world and provides indications for starting good practices of renaturalization of the territories that seem compromised.

#Cirimettiamolepinne #SUB4FAN #ART4FAN

Oct 30, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 01:00 PM

Workshop of updating on the ecological status of the Pinna nobilis From 27 October to 1 November in Trieste there will be an exhibition on the largest mollusk in the Mediterranean, now at risk of extinction also in the Gulf of Trieste. In addition to the exhibition, a scientific workshop on 30 October in which scientists and scholars from the main bodies that are working on Pinna nobilis at local and national level will participate.

Starting the "A goal a day", the initiative that illustrates the ASvis Report 2020

The ASviS initiative "A Goal a day" starts on 26 October: every day a thematic analysis on the Italian and European position with respect to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be published every day on the Alliance website

Copernicus and the smart management of urban areas

Nov 18, 2020 to Nov 19, 2020 — online event,

An “Academy National Workshop” on Copernicus and the smart management of urban areas will be held in video conference on 18 and 19 November. The event, organized jointly by the Politecnico di Milano as a member of the European network "Copernicus Academy", the User Forum and the network of national Academies, and with the participation of representatives of the European Commission and executive agencies - ECMWF, JRC - in the whole of the Copernicus operational services component.

Agreement signed between ISPRA and Union Energy for Mobility-unem

Ispra and Unem have signed an agreement of cooperation to promote environmental sustainability and technology innovation in the sector of remediation and ecosystem requalification. The collaborative activities will take place with the exchange of SNPA experiences and the oil sector for environmental sustainability, the joint experimentation in the field of new sampling or sustainable remediation technologies and common training activities on environmental protection.