Events and News

National conference on climate 2000: a roadmap for Italy

The National Climate Conference, to be held from 13 to 16 October, is the most important event of the year of Italy for climate, an initiative promoted by  Sustainable Development Foundation and by a group of companies in preparation of COP26, with the patronage of the Ministry of the Environment, ENEA and ISPRA, in collaboration with Regeneration 20 | 30, with the partnership of ANSA and with the support of SapereAmbiente, aims to become a reference event on the performance of Italy related to climate objectives.

Climate and energy in the Green Deal to rebuild Italy

The Green Deal must be the main pillar of the Next Generation Eu for Italy. It can give great impetus to employment, with attention to industrial conversion processes and workers and young people training.  The recovery and resilience plan must constitute the conditioning and guiding element of the recovery and rebuild Italy, stimulating the abandonment of the business as usual model, which has aggravated inequalities worldwide.

The ASviS Working Group on Goals 7-13 has chosen to identify possible ways to implement the Green Deal, both at national and European level, promoting the energy transition and combat against climate change.

The event is organized in the whole of the Sustainable Development Festival

An Ispra expert is participating at the event.

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Natural capital accounting: mainstreaming biodiversity conservation into sustainable development policies

Expert meeting - October 6 2020, Rome - ISPRA Partner Event EU Green Week (19-22 october 2020) -  Partner Event Italian Festival of Sustainable Development ASviS (22 september - 8 october 2020) 
Natural capital is a significant component of the national wealth. Our economic prosperity and well-being depend on the good state of natural capital: biodiversity and ecosystems provide food, raw materials, medicines, recreational activities and well-being, air and water purification, contribute to climate regulation, pollinate and fertilize crops and much more. Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) is a strategic tool to strengthen the integration of the ecosystem services value into reporting systems and policies. In order to advance the knowledge agenda on NCA and identify the needs for its effective implementation in Italy, institutions, Academia and major Italian and international stakeholders will discuss the measurement and assessment processes that represent its fundamental pillars. This event organized by ISPRA under the banner of networking and dialogue has received the accreditation of the European Commission as Partner Event of the EU Green Week 2020 on European environmental policies focused on nature and biodiversity this year and of AsviS as Partner Event of the Sustainable Development Festival, the most importan Italian initiative to raise awareness and to mobilise citizens, companies associations and institutions on economic , social and environmental sustainability.

Sustainable Development Festival 2020

The festival of Sustainable Development promoted by ASvIS will be held in the whole Italy from 22 September to 8 October. In compliance with the measures ruled by the Government to deal with the Coronavirus emergency, the Festival is renewed in its format, articulating with traditional events in attendance and online. All the stakeholders, public or private citizens, interested in participating and contributing for a sustainable future, can propose an event to be included in the initiatives

Circular development: a strategy to save the climate and regenerate territories

In the whole of the Festambiente, the national event organized every year by Legambiente, next 20 August will be held the meeting "Circular development: a strategy to save the climate and regenerate territories".

XXXII edition of Festambiente

The national event of Festambiente, organized by Legambiente will held in Ripescia (GR) from 19 to 23 August.

ASvis awarded with the Solidarity Award of United Nations for the initiative #AlleanzaAgisce

Agriculture and Territory: from the Green Deal to the recovery

New appointment with "The Country We Want - Overcoming the Emergency", a project of the CIA-Italian Farmers for the restart of Italy through its internal areas, but also as a strategy to bring the country out of the social, economic and environmental crisis.

On Friday 10 July will be held the event that on "Agriculture and Territory: from the Green Deal to the recovery".

Tuscan utilities and sustainable development. The proposal of local public service companies for green investments, contrast to climate change, circular economy

Utilities & Sustainability ”is the title of the first catalog of good experiences, projects and investments on the topic of environmental sustainability produced by local public service companies of Toscana region.

A Taste of Biodiversity – A touch of cocoa into the Mediterranean Diet, towards a healthier and sustainable planet

InnovAzioni for local sustainability - online periodical on good environmental sustainability practices

Sustainability and Report SDGs 2020: statistics for our future

On June 18, Istat is organizing a webinar to talk about sustainability and statistics for the future, on the occasion of the presentation of the third edition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Report, adopted with the 2030 Agenda by the Member States of the United Nations. The SDGs 2020 report illustrates, through a system of statistical measures and, experimentally, with three new indicators, the progress made by Italy in achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Although the Report mainly contains information updated to 2019, efforts have also been made to consider the impact of Covid-19. The general director of Ispra, Alessandro Bratti, will join the webinar.

Promoting Collaborative Agricultural Research for Sustainable Agri-Food Systems for Achieving Agenda 2030

Environment, health and sustainable societies: discovering the connections

In the frame of the initiative "AsVis Live: three steps toward the Sustainable Festival 2020", that will be held from 22 September to 8 October, also other preparatory events are organized and in streaming live, next 28 May and 4 June.The event of June focus on: "Environment, health and sustainable societies: discovering the connections", also at the light of epidemic experience. Invited to give their contributions also Institutions and delegates of the business world that will compare themselves to overcome the current crisis taking into account environmental criteria. The Ispra President Stefano Laporta will join the meeting.

Presentation of the SOER 2020, Environmental Data Yearbook and System Reports

The next 3 June, in video streaming with the Italian PM Giuseppe Conte, and David Sassoli, President of the European Parliament, will be presented the three reports dedicated to the environmental situation in Europe and in Italy: the SOER 2020 (State of the Environment Report), the Environmental Data Yearbook 2019 which shows the state of the environment in Italy and the System Report which presents regional experiences.

Watch streaming live:

ISPRA TV (double channel in English and Italian) 

Facebook page Ispra (speaker' native language)

 Youtube Ispra (only in italian)

Green Restart- How will change our development after the Coronavirus? Territorial sustainability, cultural heritage and tourism

Tourism represents 10% of world GDP, which is why it is necessary to think of a different approach to tourism that is capable of directing tourist flows also to areas today considered peripheral. Sustainable tourism meets some essential requirements but the responsibility of travelers in contact with the local population and in attention to the management of resources and waste is also linked to sustainability.At the meeting ISPRA DG Alessandra Bratti will participatetogether with Dario Franceschini, Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Heritage. 

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