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ISPRA presented on 28 October in Rome at the Chamber of Deputies three fundamental tools for understanding the state of the environment: the European Report "Europe's Environment 2025" of the European Environment Agency, the ISPRA Report "State of the Environment in Italy 2025: Indicators and Analysis" and the Environment Report of the National System for the Protection of the Environment.

The final event of the ISPRA project was held on 6 December at Palazzo Merulana in Rome. Environmental statistics for Cohesion policies 2014-2020”, aimed at expanding the set of territorial indicators currently released by public statistics on environmental matters.

A country in line with the European and sustainable development objectives for energy production from renewable sources , which reaches good levels of waste sorting of waste and decreases the disposal in landfill . The slow improvement continues air quality, especially PM particulate matter _2,5 good results with organic farming , increase i checks on production plants .

On 28 September ISPRA presents the methodological document "Indicators, indices and scenarios for the analysis of the main environmental trends". The publication analyzes the main emerging environmental issues (natural capital, climate change, circular economy and environment and health) through three different approaches whose common thread is the use and valorisation of trend of the most significant indicators present in the

A country covered by almost 40% of forests, more than Germany and Switzerland, and which has seen protected areas of land and sea grow up to 20% of the national territory. Greenhouse gas emissions, which have fallen by 19% in the last 30 years, are reduced, as are the main sources of air pollution. However, ozone, the situation of large urban centers and the Po Valley are of concern. The increase in temperatures since 1985 has given no respite, and heat islands in cities are worsening.

The situation is serious for fauna and flora, threatened by pollution and alien species. Only 48% of Italian rivers and 20% of Italian lakes are in good condition. The protected areas of our country are doing well. Temperatures are rising in Italy more than in other parts of the world (+1.71° in 2018 versus +0.98° globally). Greenhouse gases are decreasing (-17.2% from 1990 to 2018). Air pollution: daily limits are exceeded (PM10 in 21% of stations), but in Italy in the medium-long term pollutants are decreasing. Europe's sick Po Valley basin.

ISPRA presented the 2018 edition of the Environmental Data Yearbook to the Chamber of Deputies, the result of a complex and detailed research work that includes multiple phases: from the systematic collection of primary data to monitoring and control, from verification of the scientific solidity of the information to the development of increasingly effective statistical indicators in describing the country's environmental conditions.

The Environmental Data Yearbook and the Environment Report, expression of the National System for Environmental Protection (RA-SNPA), in their fifteenth and first edition respectively, together represent the most complete, reliable and reasoned official source of inter-thematic environmental information in our country.