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Environmental damage in Italy: activities of SNPA and framework of actions 2021-2022 (Ed. 2023)

The Report describes ISPRA's commitment to environmental protection through the application of civil liability regulations outlined in the sixth part of ...

Environmental damage prevention and environmental emergencies management in case of fires at waste facilities

This Manual, which was developed within the context of the Agreement signed by ISPRA and Consorzio CINEAS on 25/09/2020, addresses the issue of fires at waste ...

Environmental damage, focus on the assessment procedures

Waste management is the main cause of the initiation of investigations for the verification of environmental damage: the numbers of the report, the point on ...

Environmental disaster in Sri Lanka: ISPRA in support of monitoring activities

On May 20, a cargo ship carrying various dangerous substances caught fire off the western coast of the island of Sri Lanka, not far from the capital Colombo, ...

Environmental emergencies at sea. Drone use tests

As part of the European IRA-MAR project, line of activity 5 is dedicated to studies for the integrated response to emergencies at sea resulting from pollution, ...

Environmental emergencies at sea: the case of the M/N "Costa Concordia"

An environmental emergency at sea occurs when an event such a spill, accidental or deliberate, determines, in matrices such as biota, sediments, water and ...

Fight against Accidental Marine Pollution by hydrocarbons

The closing event of the technical-scientific collaboration agreement pursuant to art. 15 L. n. 241/9, for the implementation of activities aimed at the ...

Fires in Italy: in 2021 triple the hectares of 2020 burned. The most burned region was Sicily, in Sardegna the largest fire

From the analysis of the last twenty years, it appears that in Italy 40-50% of the territory affected by fire is made up of forests. Considering that about 1/3 ...

First Coordination Meeting on the Mediterranean Strategy for the Prevention, Preparedness and Response to Marine Pollution from Ships (2022-2031)

ISPRA participated in the meeting held in Malta from 29 November to 1 December 2022 at the Regional Emergency Response Center for Mediterranean Marine ...

First ISPRA Report on environmental criticalities. The Institute's activities in application of the precautionary principle and the prevention of environmental effects

On 15 December ISPRA will present the first report on the activities carried out by the Institute in the two-year period 2018-2019 in the frame of the support ...