Category: Italy News Brief and Action Alert

Broadcast Media Scala Mercalli is a TV show entirely dedicated to climate change and its key themes, from water resources to renewable energy, from waste management to responsible land use. The goal of the show is to make climate science and policy accessible to the general audience. In each episode, the host introduces a particular...

Regions/Provinces/States Emilia Romagna—Emilia Romagna has a comprehensive plan to meet the European targets of 2020, 2030 and 2050 in the transportation, energy, and buildings sectors. Plans in the transportation sector are the most aggressive, with a heavy focus on electric vehicles. Overall goals are: •    40% increase in electric car registration and 25% increase in...

Government Official Gianluca Galletti Minister of Environment, Land and Sea Minister Galletti plays a key role in setting Italy’s environmental policy. He attended the Paris Conference in 2015 as well as the COP22 in Marrakesh in November 2016. He led the Italian government to ratify the Paris Agreement on November 4th 2016. He is particularly...

Research Study: “Italy’s National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change (NAS),” Italian Ministry for Environment, Land, and Sea (IMELS), Higher Institute for Environmental Research and Protection (ISPRA) and the Euro-Mediterrenean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) 2014 One of Italy’s top research documents on climate change is the National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change (NAS)....

Italy: The Energy Efficiency Scorecard and the Conto Termico According to the International Energy Efficiency Scorecard (IEES) Italy ranked second for its energy efficiency policies and programs in both 2014 and 2016. Two key policies put in place by the Italian government are the energy efficiency certificate (EEC) trading scheme that targets energy service companies...

Possibility of Ratification by 2018: Medium On the 22nd of April 2016, 177 countries signed the Paris Agreement, the product of the COP21 in December 2015. Two months later, there are only 17 countries that have ratified it, making it effective in their national law. No coincidence that these countries, that promptly have ratified it, are also those...