Environment: Italy does not reach the enough, Sicily fails in many indicators. In terms of air quality, energy production from renewable sources, consumption of soil, dispersion of water, the photograph taken from Istat in the latest report on Fair and Sustainable Wellbeing (Bes) presents a national scenario that is anything but encouraging. There are no steps forward and after the pandemic the resumption of production activities has increased the pressure of man on the environment. All the actions implemented to start the transition ecological and energy, including those driven by funds Pnrr, “have not yet produced the desired results,” writes the Institute of Statistics. In fact, exceeding the thresholds worsens pollutants in the atmosphere (76.2% compared to 71.7% in 2021, which had improved in recent years. The emissions of carbon dioxide. It reduces energy production by five percent sources clean. Does not improve consumption soil as we lose more and more waterfall. The only exception is i waste: production per inhabitant and landfill disposal decrease.
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Waste: huge differences between regions
Everything is fine Italian produced, in 2022, 492.3 kilograms of waste. In 2021 they were 500.5, in 2021 503. Of these, they end up in dump 17.8 percent. Although each Region has its own management of waste with differences and critical issues from territory to territory, the share that is sent to landfill is, fortunately, constantly decrease. But there is Italy and Italy: Bolzano 1.1% uses landfills, the Molise for 77.1%, the Campania sends the waste elsewhere, the Sicily exceeds 40%. From the Istat report it then emerges that in 2023 the effects of the climate change: increasingly higher temperatures, increase in consecutive days without rain (+5.5), extreme phenomena related to the intensity of the heat (+36 days compared to the reference period 1981-2010) and events drought prolonged.
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Land consumption continues to grow
The cement continues to gnaw away precious square kilometers of spaces greens. According to the latest available data, in 2022 it was ‘consumed‘7.14% of the national natural territory, almost 77 km2 more than 2021. L‘acceleration there is and it is “worrying”, writes Istat. Between 2021 and 2022, the land consumed For Everything is fine citizen rooms of 2.46 m2. Since 2006, consumption pro you understand it is 16.23 m2 more. A growth in artificial surfaces that waterproofs the soil opening the way to potential problems breakdown hydrogeological. And it is “only partly compensated by restoration of natural areas”, according to Istat. Zeroing land consumption remains an objective distant. It should also be considered that in 2022 a further 7.5 square kilometers will have been consumed reversible (detected in 2021) a permanent. These are soils that can no longer become natural. In 15 regions the estimated land consumed exceeds 5%: the highest percentage values remain those of Lombardy (12.16%), Veneto (11.88%) and Campania (10.52%). There Sicily is at 6.5%, while the Valley of Aosta the region with the lowest percentage is confirmed (2.15%).
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Sicily’s environmental sins
There are numerous sides environmental in which the Sicily remains defective. Starting, unfortunately, with consecutive days without rain. There are 48 of them, the absolute highest figure in Italy. Too high too losses water in municipal networks, with a value (51.6%) higher than the average Noon which – by far – to the average 35% of the North or 28.8% of Bolzano. The island then has the lowest national percentage treatment of waste water. You don’t get to 44%. purification, while the average in the South is 50.5%. Paradoxically, the sea coasts bathable they barely exceed 50%, the lowest value in Italy. Despite this, more than six out of ten Siciliansaged 14 and over, declared themselves to be a lot or quite a lot satisfied the environmental situation (air, water, noise) of the area in which they live. A full pass: this is what they declared during an Istat investigation. Seven out of ten are worry for climate change, but not even two in ten fear for the loss of biodiversity. They are happy.
