The CNR Institute on Air Pollution (Cnr-Iia) and Legambiente presented the 2020 report on sustainable islands, real ideal laboratories to face the most urgent environmental challenges, where it is possible to apply innovative models in the energy sectors, of the cycle of water, waste, mobility and tourism. The Report takes into consideration the areas ...
And reduce the use of tankers in the face of tourist peaks A team of ENEA experts has developed a multidisciplinary methodology that allows us to estimate the quality and quantity of potential water reserves in the aquifers of small islands. The goal is to increase the availability of water, especially in periods of drought and ...
The European Islands Facility NESOI project supports the energy transition process of the European islands, facilitating the decentralization of energy systems and contributing to the policies of the European Union in achieving the 2030 climate objectives. To do this, the project has the possibility of providing technical support and financial to energy transition projects on the Italian islands ...
SUSTAINABLE ISLANDS Presentation of the 2020 report Energy, circular economy, water, mobility, sustainable tourism. The challenges for the smaller islands and the best practices from the world. The smaller islands are isolated systems that can become the ideal laboratory to face the most urgent and important environmental challenges facing the world, where to apply precisely ...
Today, the European Commission, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Portugal, the Kingdom of Spain and Sweden signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to secure the future of the EU's Clean Energy for Islands Initiative. Read the memorandum of understanding The memorandum was announced today during a press conference of the presidency ...
In the recent Clean Energy for All Europeans package, islands have found a special place as territories that can "provide platforms for pilot initiatives on the clean energy transition and can act as showcases internationally". Covenant of Mayors (CoM) and Pact of Islands (PoI) have helped to prepare the ground for institutions ...
Turbines, located on breakwaters equipped with an oscillating water column system, combine coastal and port defense with the production of electricity by exploiting wave motion. Two solutions configured in this way were tested in the last few days of last December by the company Enermedsea, together with Fimeco, on the dock of Marina Corta di Lipari, feeding their ...
Rome - “The government pays the utmost attention to the smaller islands, in the Budget Law I strongly wanted to insert a new fund to finance investments and support infrastructural development and territorial requalification works. The government is aware of the daily difficulties of the mayors and citizens of the smaller islands, we are at their side and we are committed to supporting ...
With great satisfaction it is announced that the Ministry of the Environment and the Protection of the Territory and the Sea has financed four projects concerning the islands of Lipari, Filicudi, Alicudi and Vulcano for a total amount of about 4 million euros, presented by the Municipality of Lipari as part of the Call "Energy efficiency interventions, sustainable mobility ...
The NESOI - European Islands Facilty, the Clean Energy for EU Islands Secretariat, the Overseas Countries and Territories Association (OCTA), and FEDARENE will co-host an online session within the frame of the European Sustainable Energy Week 2020 on the potential of Islands as champions of green recovery strategy on the 17th of June. As Europe ...