The report highlights the collaborative action already happening between cities, states, regions, business, and national government, using data reported by over 1000 cities, states and regions through the CDP-ICLEI Unified Reporting System. Immediate action is needed to stop global greenhouse gas emissions, avoid new emissions, design resilient infrastructure and switch …
Naples on Thursday became the latest Italian city to ban road traffic within certain hours, in a bid to limit air pollution which is causing growing alarm about health risks. The southern port town follows in the tracks of Milan and Rome, which both imposed emergency limits last week, after …
Even as the world gears up for the New Year, air pollution will play a dampener on celebrations in certain global metropolitan cities. Italy has already issued a directive prohibiting the use of fireworks on New Year. The European nation has been struggling to lower air pollution level by banning …
A meeting held on Wednesday between Italy's Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti and local government heads agreed a three-year plan to cut high levels of smog in the country's largest cities. According to ANSA reports, the measures approved include a 12-million spending plan to revamp public transport with more, and …
Careless smokers who drop their unwanted cigarette butts on the ground could face fines under new laws in Italy. The Italian parliament has passed a raft of measures aimed at tackling the country's littering and pollution problems, including high fines of €300 for smokers who toss their cigarette butts on …
Wealthy nations spend 40 times as much money subsidizing fossil fuel production as they contribute to the Green Climate Fund to help poor countries adapt to global warming, a research group said in a study released on Thursday. Eight industrialized nations - Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United …
The main aim of this paper is to test economic benefits of landslide prevention measures vs. post-event emergency actions. To this end, detailed- and large-scale analyses were performed in a training area located in the northeastern Italian pre-Alps that was hit by an exceptional rainfall event occurred in November 2010. …
Piacenza was once of the areas hit by flash floods and landslides on Monday One man has died and two brothers are missing after torrential rain caused foods and landslides in northern Italy. The body of a 56-year-old security guard was found close to his car near Piacenza, a town …
Italian energy group Eni said two people had been killed in an accident at a Sicilian plant operated by its Versalis chemical unit, prompting trade union calls for a strike to protest over working conditions. The two workers, employed by a third-party contractor, had been carrying out inspection work at …
Rome's waste management Agency (AMA) is due to receive soon an exclusive Italian patent to turn garbage into eco-asphalt, with a new procedure that may allow the municipality to both save money and preserve the local environment. The AMA is expected to receive the patent in October, and open a …
About 25 million birds are being unlawfully shot, trapped and glued in a Mediterranean crime wave that is even affecting birds vulnerable to extinction, according to the first report of its kind. Conflict-hit countries such as Syria and Libya fare particularly badly in the study by BirdLife International, with Egypt …
The tourism industry in southern European countries like Spain and Italy could be under threat due to climate change, an EU report has warned. In a study, entitled 'Time is of the essence: adaptation of tourism demand to climate change in Europe', it has been found that changing climate conditions …
Three people were killed when a severe rainstorm in the Italian Alps caused a landslide that swept down a mountain and across roads and parking lots, authorities said on Wednesday. The landslide occurred late on Tuesday near San Vito di Cadore, close to the ski resort town of Cortina d'Ampezzo. …
In the last decades the Euro-Mediterranean region has experienced an increase in extreme temperature events such as heat waves. These extreme weather conditions can strongly affect arable crop growth and final yields. Here, early heat waves over Italy from 1995 to 2013 are identified and characterised and their impact on …
A new report by Italian researchers shows that the controversial Senhuile project in Senegal is on the verge of collapse. The project, initiated by Italian and Senegalese investors four years ago to produce biofuels, has provoked fierce resistance from affected communities in which six people have died. Its investors claim …
The Gambia government on Tuesday reached an agreement with an Italian company, GPM Corporation Limited, for the construction of a fence at Bakoteh dump site, the main waste dumping site in the Greater Banjul Area (GBA).According to officials, the contract is the first phase of a €2.5 million waste management …
A major pilot project by Europe's largest power network operator to integrate power from rooftop solar panels into the grid has shown that battery storage of renewable energy is not yet economically viable in Europe. The conclusion is a sobering one for proponents of sun and wind energy because as …
The quality of diets in rodent feeding trials is crucial. We describe the contamination with environmental pollutants of 13 laboratory rodent diets from 5 continents. Measurements were performed using accredited methodologies. All diets were contaminated with pesticides (1-6 out of 262 measured), heavy metals (2-3 out of 4, mostly lead …
Spell of sweltering weather expected to last several days as temperatures hit 40C and UN urges countries to develop better warning systems European countries including France, Spain, Italy and Britain have issued weather alerts and the United Nations has urged countries to create better warning systems as a heatwave sweeping …
Turkey , which assumed the presidency of the G20, will push for inclusive growth and investment to boost economic expansion and stem the tide of rising inequality , its sherpa has said. “We defined our priorities as the three Is -namely implementation, investment and also inclusive growth. One of the …
Extreme precipitation events in the Mediterranean region during the cool season are strongly affected by the export of moist air from tropical and subtropical areas into the extratropics. The aim of this paper is to present a discussion of the major research efforts on this subject and to formulate a …
