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Conservation of aquatic ecosystems, spatial planning and involvement: a strategy for the protection of biodiversity

Feb 02, 2022 from 05:00 PM to 07:00 PM Webinar,
On the occasion of the World Wetlands Day, Legambiente presents the Report on Aquatic Ecosystems with a map of 15 best practices, citing a series of successful projects in the management of wetlands and aquatic ecosystems throughout the Peninsula: from the protection of the Mediterranean trout, at the visitor center on the otter in the Gran Paradiso National Park, monitoring the pink flamingo in the Gran Sasso National Park, up to the census in Sicily of the wetlands of the Mediterranean islands, just to name a few.

A motion for the wolf national monitoring

The sampling strategy and the number of signs of presence collected during the national wolf monitoring A short animation tells the work done to collect the 24,000 signs of the presence of the wolf in Italy, according to a   standardized scientific protocol  on a national scale. Which areas were selected, how many km were traveled by the 3000 people involved in this activity, what kind of samples were taken?

X World Water Forum 2024: Rome, Florence and Assisi candidates to host the event

Feb 07, 2022 from 09:30 AM to 12:00 PM
The World Water Forum is the most important international event in the water sector, which brings together the scientific community, businesses, the world of cooperation and civil society. Every three years the World Water Council (WWC) of Marseille chooses the country that will host the event. The candidacy of the cities of Rome, Florence and Assisi to host the X World Water Forum in 2024 was filed in September 2020 by the organizing committee (Italy World Water Forum) and admitted to the final phase of the assignment process. From 6 to 11 February 2022, Italy will host the WWC delegation in charge of evaluating the Italian proposal for the candidacy, based on the idea of ​​"Water Renaissance". A large alliance of national institutions, municipalities, regions, research bodies, universities, associations and companies has come together around the proposal of the promoting committee and will welcome the WWC delegation visiting our country. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on 7 February will welcome the representatives of the WWC during an institutional meeting which will be attended by the president of ISPRA, Stefano Laporta. Program

The protection of the environment, biodiversity and ecosystem included in the Italian Costitution

The Italian parliament has definitively approved the bill amending two articles of the Constitution, 9 and 41 Article 9 is part of the "fundamental" articles of the Constitution. It already contained the protection of the landscape heritage and the historical and artistic heritage of the Nation, with the reform the Republic also attributes the protection of the environment, biodiversity and ecosystems and explicitly specifies a principle of protection for animals. The amendment to Article 41, on the other hand, states that health and the environment are paradigms to be protected by the economy, as well as safety, freedom and human dignity. And the same amended article also states how institutions, through laws, programs and controls, can orient public and private economic initiative not only towards social but also towards environmental purposes. "The inclusion in the Constitution of the protection of the environment, biodiversity and ecosystems represents the culmination of a path that stems from the sensitivity of citizens and gives strength to these issues, qualifying them as fundamental assets. A strong signal, a challenge for all of us and a greater responsibility that will allow us to carry out more effective protection actions for health and quality of life, definitively establishing that the environment is a right for everyone, as the President of the Republic has often declared "declared Stefano Laporta, president of ISPRA and SNPA

International day of Women and Girls in Science

Feb 11, 2022 from 03:00 PM to 05:30 PM Online event,
The International Day of Women and Girls in Science was established in 2015 by the UN National Assembly, and sponsored by UNESCO, to raise awareness and inviting member states, universities, society in general "to promote the full and equal participation of women and girls in science, education, training, employment and decision-making processes ".

Published the report :The Environmental Damage in Italy. Activities of the SNPA and framework of actions 2019-2020

The II Report of ISPRA on Environmental Damage in Italy, referring to the years 2019-2020, follows the First Report published two years ago and aims to present a dynamic picture of the institutional structures, the public actions and the development trends concerning the environmental damage matter. This Report is based on the practical work experience gained through over than 100 technical evaluations for the assessment of environmental damage carried out within the SNPA on behalf of the Ministry in the years 2019-2020 and allows to highlight some very important trends for the future

XXXVI National Congress FAI - Landscape 206

Feb 19, 2022 from 09:15 AM to 07:00 PM Online event,
What will the Italian landscape look like in 2026, when the National Recovery and Resilience Plan will be completed? The 26th FAI National Convention focuses attention on the landscape, which will be transformed by the transition. Faced with the opposition between the urgency of infrastructure for sustainable development and the duty of protecting the environment, FAI reaffirms its commitment to the landscape. precious testimony of Italian history and culture.

A sustainable transiction. Landscape, cities and work that are changing

Feb 24, 2022 from 04:00 PM to 05:30 PM Webinar,
Award ceremony of the 5th edition of the Quotidiano Energia photo contest The webinar will be held on February 24 in which the winning photos of the contest will be awarded. The photographs that entered the competition had to illustrate examples of sustainable transition. Territories that change to host the many renewable plants necessary to reach the expected targets, industrial plants that are innovated, new forms of mobility and transport, cities that change to be restored.

Documentary of the project FIT4REUSE

The project FIT4REUSE aims to provide safe, sustainable and accepted ways of water supply for the Mediterranean basin by exploiting non-conventional water resources. Treated wastewater and desalinated water can contribute to compensate the gap between agricultural water demand and supply and provide consistently high quality water throughout the year. FIT4REUSE aims to define on innovative, sustainable and safe treatment technologies, and on the use of treated wastewater and desalinated water in agriculture and for aquifer recharge. Also, specific methodological and assessment tools will be created to meet the project objectives.

SOS Drought. Impacts. Climate forecasts. Monitoring technologies. Emergency Management.

Feb 23, 2022 from 10:30 AM to 01:00 PM Online event,
The rainfall trend of recent months is comparable to the great drought suffered by Italy in 2017. If by April there will be no significant rainfall, there will be a considerable deficit of water resources. The negative trend is recorded both in rain and snow precipitations and in the data of the levels of surface and ground water, with some basins, such as that of the Po and the islands, in very serious resource deficit. What to do and how to improve forecasts, prevention, infrastructures to cope with recurring drought conditions. This is the topic of the first meeting of the Technological Sapiens, the webinars of approach to Earth Technology Expo in Florence from 5 to 8 October 2022, coordinated by Mario Tozzi, with the participation of leading Italian experts.

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 the investigations for the assessment, but also a focus on the guidelines for the control bodies in the new episode of Environment on the Net. In  Ricicla TV  ISPRA presents the Report on environmental damage .

War in Ukraine: emergency meeting ENSREG

On February 27, an emergency meeting of  ENSREG  - European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group was held, at the center of the meeting was the monitoring of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The ISPRA President and Coordinator of the ISIN Council, Stefano Laporta, also participated in the videoconference.