Torino It is the Italian city that produces the highest rate of pollution in Europe. The sad record emerges from the ranking drawn up by Multicompel Technology, a company founded in 2021 specialized in the installation of photovoltaic and solar thermal systems in buildings and other construction projects. After the Piedmont capital, surprisingly there is no Milan, which has been struggling with the problem of poor air quality for years, but Pleasurewhich ranked twenty-second in the world.
The most polluting cities in the world
At a global level, the ones that pollute the most are Chinese megalopolises «Handan, Shanghai, Suzhou, Dalian, Beijing and Tianjin and then also Moscow and again in China Wuhan, Quingdao, Chongquing, Wuxi and Urumqi», summarize the analysts of Multicompel Technology, based on the data of the research «Keeping Track of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Progress and Targets in 167 Cities Worldwide», conducted by Ting Wei, Junliang Wu and Shaoqing Chen, researchers from the School of Environmental Science and Engineering of Sun Yat-sen University in China.
The worst in Europe
As far as Europe is concerned, the most polluting cities are MoscaIstanbul, St. Petersburg, Frankfurt, Athens, Berlin and Turin. The Piedmontese capital is in seventh place in the Old Continent ranking and fifty-second in the world ranking, but first in Italy. The second most polluting Italian city is not, as one might expect, Milan, but Pleasureranked twenty-second in the world.
How much pollution does Turin produce?
According to calculations made by Multicompel Technology for 2024, Turin produces 22 million tons of CO2 annual equivalents in the atmosphere, almost a tenth of that of Handan which remains in the lead with 199 million tons of CO2 equivalents per year.
Pollution in the Old Continent
The most polluting city on the European continent is therefore Moscafollowed in second place by Istanbul (tenth in the world ranking) with 84 million tons of CO2 and from St.Pietroburgo with 51 million tons of CO2. Then again, at a European level, we find Frankfurt (45 Mt Co2 eq), Athens (41 Mt Co2 eq), Berlin (27 Mt Co2 eq) and Turin (22 Mt Co2 eq). The European ranking continues with Hamburg (19 Mt Co2), Rotterdam (17 Mt Co2), Warsaw (15 Mt Co2), Lyon (11 Mt Co2 eq.) and then in twelfth place Bologna (7 Mt Co2). Then again Paris (6.8 Mt Co2), Helsinki (6.5 Mt Co2), Amsterdam (6 Mt Co2), Ljubljana (5.8 Mt Co2), Oslo (4.5 Mt Co2), Lisbon (4 Mt Co2), Copenhagen (3.4 Mt Co2), Stockholm (3 Mt Co2), Vilnius (2.7 Mt Co2) and Piacenza (1.5 Mt Co2).
The problem of large metropolises
The prime 25 metropoliwhich also include Istanbul, Tokyo and New York, produce 55% of global pollution. 82% of CO2 comes from large cities. «Taking into account that 42% of emissions are produced by buildinghere the concept of city must necessarily evolve towards not only economic development but also environmental sustainability and energy efficiency, encouraging the birth of ethical consumption paradigms”, underlined Edi Lala, founder and CEO of Multicompel Technology.
