Publications

The report describes the greenhouse gas emissions and removals in Italy, based on the data officially transmitted in accordance with the provisions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action of the European Union.

On 2 May 2018 the Commission Decision 2018/680/EU establishing the criteria for awarding the EU Ecolabel to indoor cleaning services entered into force. Since then, 175 companies in this sector have been certified in Italy, accounting for 85% of all cleaning service licences issued in the EU. Behind this success is also the CAM issued in January 2021.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Coexistence and management of human-wildlife conflicts

The Report describes ISPRA's commitment to environmental protection through the application of civil liability regulations outlined in the sixth part of Legislative Decree 152/2006, highlighting the key role of the National System for Environmental Protection (SNPA) as the technical support for the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security in actions against environmental damage.

National trends of energy and economic indicators have been analysed in relation to greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption. Particular attention was paid to the power sector, one of the main players in the national energy system. The role of driving factors for GHG emission trends has been analyzed, such as economic growth, fossil and renewable energy, transformation efficiency, carbon and energy intensities. Regarding power sector, the emission factors of greenhouse gases have been elaborated. Efficiency and decarbonization indicators have been compared in Italy and in the biggest European Countries. The power sector performances of main European countries have been compared for fuel mixes, transformation efficiencies, and GHG emission factors.

These "Guidelines for the census and monitoring of macromycetes in Italy" are the result of the commitment and involvement of the many participants in the Open Science initiative of the Network for the study of mycological diversity (NMD).

This document describes the outcomes of a collaborative trial on ecotoxicological measurements in which laboratories belonging to public institutions (ISPRA, ARPA/APPA, Universities and other Research Institutes) and private subjects participated. This study led to the validation of a specific method for freshwater environments for conducting the solid-phase bioassay using the bacterium Aliivibrio fischeri.