This Booklet offers an overview of the actions proposed by the Italian municipalities participating in the experimental program of interventions for adaptation to climate change in urban areas, launched in 2021 by the Ministry of Ecological Transition (now the Ministry for the Environment and Energy Security), in collaboration with ISPRA and ANCI.
This Booklet presents a survey of the main initiatives and best practices concerning the promotion of indoor air quality in public and private buildings, with special attention on school buildings. These initiatives include research projects, awareness actions and best practices aimed at improving indoor air quality in buildings, with a focus on initiatives related to indoor radon and interventions to reduce the associated risk.
Radon, classified by the WHO and IARC as a Group 1 human carcinogen, is the second leading cause of lung cancer death after smoking. Under specific conditions, it tends to accumulate in indoor living environments, posing a significant health risk. Occupancy in inadequately designed and constructed buildings with unsuitable materials, and cases where management and maintenance are not performed correctly and consistently, can lead to adverse health effects not only for radon risk but also for elevated levels of chemical and microbiological agents
Environment in Italy: an overview. Environmental Data Yearbook 2022 is a statistical report produced by ISPRA with the aim of providing policy makers, public administrators, technicians and citizens with official information on the state of the environment in our country.
The report describes the use of a Bayesian hierarchical space-time model for the high spatial resolution estimate (1km x 1km) of daily PM10 concentrations, in order to give a demonstrative overview of possible applications. The model was applied, separately for each month, to the PM10 concentrations measured since 2013 to 2020 by the Italian regional air quality monitoring networks.
Environmental Data Yearbook 2021
The Report provides information on the presence of residues of plant protection products in surface water and groundwater. The 2019-2020 monitoring results are presented in terms of the recovery frequency and concentrations distribution, the levels of contamination obtained by comparison with the environmental quality standards are assessed.
The document analyses key emerging environmental topics (natural capital, climate change, circular economy and environment and health) through three different approaches based on the use and exploitation of the trends of the most relevant indicators in the Environmental Indicators’ Database ( Banca dati indicatori ambientali)
The 17th report "Gli Indicatori del Clima in Italia" describes the Italian climate in the year 2021 and updates the estimate of climate variations in the last few decades. It is based on climate data, indices and indicators derived from the "National System for the collection, processing and dissemination of climate data" (SCIA, www.scia.isprambiente.it ) developed by ISPRA in collaboration with National System of Environmental Protection national and regional meteorological monitoring networks.
Climate normals are the mean or characteristic values of a climate variable in a long time interval. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) established that the length of the reference period should be 30 years, recommending to update the normals every 10 years, in order to provide representative reference values for recent climatic conditions.
ISPRA, as required by the legislation (Art. 199 - paragraph 6, letter a) of Legislative Decree 152/06), has started the activities of developing risk assessment criteria as a national reference for the Regional Plans for the Remediation of Polluted Areas (PRBs). This report illustrates the activities conducted in the first phase (phase 1), in which national priority criteria are first identified, to apply to potentially contaminated sites, with the support of the Technical Table, set up with Regions and ARPA, starting with the reconnaissance of criteria available at national and international level.
Ispra has set up a monitoring radiometric network able to provide to Cevad, according to the provisions of art. 123 of Legislative Decree 230/95, the situation of environmental radioactivity on the national territory in real time.
Environmental Data Yearbook 2019
Environmental Data Yearbook 2019
Environmental Data Yearbook 2019
Green infrastructures and soft mobility, experiences and considerations for new synergies
