July — English

Covid-19 and air quality

Jul 07, 2020 from 06:00 PM to 07:30 PM

Tuesday 7 July starting at 6.00 pm, the General Director of Ispra, Alessandro Bratti, will participate in the meeting "Covid-19 and air quality". The impacts of the lockdown on air quality and the alleged correlations between pollution and spread/impact of the virus will be discussed.

Ferries as monitoring platforms of marine species

ISPRA and Milano University of Bicocca together in order to monitor cetaceans and biodiversity of sea Mediterranean

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

Jul 03, 2020 from 05:00 PM to 05:00 PM — Webinar,

Marine biodiversity, the five most threatened species

The sea is not an inexhaustible resource. Here are the main species that inhabit Italian waters to be protected to ensure high marine biodiversity.

Press conference: the public campaign of the Italian Ministry of the Environment on the correct disposal of gloves and masks

The communication campaign of the Ministry of the Environment was presented at a press conference in Rome, in collaboration with the Coast Guard, Ispra, Iss, Enea and the Colao commission - the first live post-Covid - by Minister Sergio Costa, at the headquarters of the Command General of the Coast Guard. Three points on which he focuses: throwing masks and gloves in the undifferentiated, use as much as possible of the reusable ones, do not throw them on the ground to avoid serious damage to the environment. The President of Ispra and SNPA, Stefano Laporta, said that "Ispra and the National System for Environmental Protection" adhere to this campaign which mainly appeals to the civic sense of each of us. The numbers are clear: in Italy there is a daily production of waste from masks equal to about 410 tons, with an average value for the end of 2020 of 100,000 tons of waste. The production of glove waste at the end of the year will be of an average value of 200,000 tons. These numbers must necessarily lead us to responsible behavior towards the environment".

Heath Plants: One-Health vision

Jul 15, 2020 from 05:30 PM to 07:00 PM — Webinar,

Plants are are the organisms that more than any other condition the life of our planet, in all its forms. Their health is an essential element of that of the entire biosphere, from microorganisms to humans, without priority, and is a guarantee of food safety for the human species.

Climate in Italy: 2019 the hottest third year since 1961. New absolute record for June

Online the Report Ispra "Climate indicators in Italy in 2019" The year 2019 ranks at the third place among the hottest years since 1961, with an anomaly peak in June: + 4.25 ° C in the North, + 4.0 ° C in the Center, + 3.27 ° C in the South and Islands. The heat was particularly intense between 26 and 29 June, when new absolute temperature records were recorded in various locations in the north-west and in the Alpine sector, with peaks of 40 ° C in the plains and 35-36 ° C at about 1000 m of altitude. The 15th report "Gli Indicatori del Clima in Italia" describes the Italian climate in the year 2019 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) developed by ISPRA in collaboration with national and regional meteorological monitoring networks.

Mediterranean International Day

Mediterranean International Day Sea is celebrated on 8 July, an opportunity to raise awareness of the health of the Mare Nostrum and the dangers that threaten it. The Mediterranean is a treasure of the marine biodiversity of the whole Planet because, despite having only an area of about 1% of all oceans, it is the habitat of over 12 thousand marine species, between 4% and 12% of the world's marine biodiversity.

Epidemiological emergency, Covid-19 and waste cycle

Jul 15, 2020 from 11:00 AM to 12:45 PM — Streaming web,

The Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into illegal activities related to the waste cycle and environmental crimes (Ecomafie Commission) unanimously approved the report "COVID-19 epidemiological emergency and waste cycle". A meeting will be held on Wednesday 15 July at Palazzo San Macuto to present the Commission's report.

Tor Caldara: an itinerary between geology, environment and history

Oct 10, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 05:00 PM — Riserva Naturale Regionale Tor Caldara, Litoranea Ostia-Anzio km 34,400, Anzio (RM),

Ispra, like the past years, will participate to the Planet Earth week, also promoting in the Natural Reserve or Tor Caldara (in the Anzio area), "an itinerary between geology, environment and history".

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

Jul 08, 2020 from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM — Videoconference,

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.

Agriculture and Territory: from the Green Deal to the recovery

Jul 10, 2020 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM — Webinar,

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".

First Copernicus User Forum Italy-Spain

For the first time a joint Copernicus User Forum will take place with the support of the European Comission, the European Environment Agency and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). Initially planned for March, due to COVID-19 it was cancelled. Instead, it will take place online on July 10 from 10:00 to 13:45. The meeting will be conducted in English, Italian and Spanish

IPBES invites national experts of nature and biodiversity to express comments on its next reports

A deep knowledge of our relation to the ocean to better protect it

The decade for the ocean, i.e. the programme “United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development” , whose implementation plan will be officially presented at the end of this year, will be realized from 2021 to 2030 and devoted to the protection of seas and oceans, to the blue growth and the socio-economic development based on the many different resources offered by the ocean, whose sustainability is provided by a robust scientific knowledge of our continuous relation

NET project for the European Researchers' Night 2020

This year's European Researchers' Night is enriched with a new project. It's called "NET" and its goal is to realize an active network between science, culture and society

Can we prevent future pandemics? Biodiversity instead of masks

Jul 04, 2020 from 05:00 PM to 07:00 PM — Webinar,

We do not have to go back to the normality because the normality is the problem and anythings of things we are doing right now can't prevent the next pandemic. Climate change contrast, Protection of Biodiversity and Environment, Sustainable Economy, are the main topics of the webinar organized in the whole of the Rivestiti Festival 2020

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

End of waste and by-products: solutions for a circular economy suistainable and efficacious

Jul 17, 2020 from 09:30 AM to 01:30 PM — Webinar,

In order to close the circular economy cycle, it is necessary to work on the tools that can give operators certainty regarding by-product qualification of the production residues that they generate and the cessation of the waste qualification at the end of a recovery process, so that these materials can effectively return to the market

Harmony project, restart the process for the common policy between Italian and Malta

Jul 21, 2020 06:30 PM to Jul 22, 2020 07:00 PM

In the frame of the Harmony project restart from Lampedusa the "partecipative road to build the common policy between Italy and Malta" to protect marine biodiversity in the areas of the two Countries. From 21 to 22 "Surveillance and alert systems of iInvasive alien species and protected marine areas: local actors, institutions and experts compared for the definition of shared intervention strategies".