Publications

The report describes the reporting of emissions of greenhouse gases that Italy officially communicates in accordance with the requirements of the United Nation Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the European Union’s Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Mechanism.

Investments of up to €8 billion in the wind sector

The Atlas of environmental data, a volume that ISPRA publishes in this new edition, which offers an overview and a selection of the main environmental data in Italy. It provides cartographic representations that show the distribution of the main environmental information on the territory which, together with graphs, tables and texts, illustrate the situation of our country.

The Mediterranean trout, included in Annex II of the Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC, is a key species of aquatic ecosystems for its role at the top of the trophic networks of the Apennine, island and hill mountain watercourses.

In the framework of its activity on national operational hydrology, the Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research has developed the distributed water budget model named BIGBANG – Bilancio Idrologico GIS BAsed a scala Nazionale su Griglia regolare , aimed at evaluating over Italy the hydrological water budget at the monthly scale and at computing relevant indicators for the water resource management.

Methodologies, information and environmental indicators

Methodologies, information and environmental indicators The disclosure requirements introduced by the regulation on sustainable finance are so substantial and complex that they imply the need for an adequate technical support framework in the implementation phase of the discipline, which helps companies and investors to fully understand the contents and methods for generating the environmental information required by the new standards.

Council Regulation (EU) 2017/997 establishes the methods for hazardous property HP 14 ‘Ecotoxic. The Regulation establishes the criteria for attributing the "ecotoxic" hazard property to waste through the application of the "conventional method", according to which the ecotoxicity is established from a chemical point of view, through the sum of the concentrations of substances classified as "ecotoxic", according to Regulation 2008/1272/EC (CLP regulation).

The report describes the reporting of emissions of transboundary substances that Italy officially communicates in accordance with the requirements of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CRLTAP/UNECE) and relevant Protocols.

The Report on Waste from Economic Activities, now in its twenty-third edition, is the result of a complex activity of collection, analysis and processing of data by the National Centre for Waste and Circular Economy of ISPRA, with the contribution of regional and provincial Environmental Protection Agencies. The Report implements a specific task required by article 189, of legislative decree. n. 152 of 3th April 2006.

The Report on Waste from Economic Activities, now in its twenty-third edition, is the result of a complex activity of collection, analysis and processing of data by the National Centre for Waste and Circular Economy of ISPRA, with the contribution of regional and provincial Environmental Protection Agencies. The Report implements a specific task required by article 189, of legislative decree. n. 152 of 3th April 2006.

Directive against greenwashing. Parliament has given its final green light to a directive that will improve product labelling and ban the use of misleading environmental claims.

European Union has addressed more and more effectively the problem of air pollution from vehicular traffic . In this context, environmental specifications for petrol and diesel fuels constitute one of the main elements of the measures adopted at community and national level to reduce atmospheric emissions of pollutants linked to the consumption of fuels .

This report includes data on sulphur content of heavy fuel oil, gas oil and marine fuels used in Italy in 2023. ISPRA processes data from fuels businnes operators and national control autority to determine amount of fuels used and to present results of control activity.

Sustainable tourism in Protected areas: the complex balance between local development needs and biodiversity conservation

The Sustainability Report (SB) is one of the Institute's most recent publications. It stems from the organizational innovation process that ISPRA has been implementing since 2019, in the belief that organizational models also need updating to meet the challenges of sustainability. A tool, the SB, also useful for integration between policies and strategies and for strengthening stakeholder participation. This year it is also in a condensed version and by chapters, with a renewed mode of use.