Presentation of the Environmental Data Yearbook

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. This work is carried out by ISPRA in collaboration with the regional environmental protection agencies and the autonomous provinces within the National System for Environmental Protection (SNPA), established two years ago with Law 132 of 28 June 2016.

The Yearbook, with a core set of 306 indicators for a total of 150,000 updated data, is not just a "Data Bank", i. e. A simple information system, but represents a useful and complete knowledge tool at the service of citizens, experts and political decision makers. In fact, this edition also includes the "Data on the Environment" report, with a selection and summary of the environmental issues and indicators in line with the objectives of the VII Environmental Action Program of the European Environment Agency; the “Yearbook in figures”, which provides a summary of the Yearbook (full version) accessible to a wide audience, including non-experts, and, finally, “Recapitulating…the environment” which, for some of the environmental topics of greatest interest, provides a summary and comparison with other European countries.

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