Floods, Legamabiente: “Italy is the only large country without a climate adaptation plan”
The flood that hit the Marche is yet another alarm bell that the Planet is sending us. The climate crisis is no joke, we need interventions that can no longer be postponed. From January to September 2022 Italy was hit, without considering the next autumn which will further aggravate the budget, already for 62 floods (including flooding from heavy rains) against 88 in 2021 “.
And how much Legambiente denounces which today released the data from the climate risk map of its Citta ‘Clima Observatory, with a focus on floods and central Italy, asking for urgent interventions to be implemented “starting from the national plan for adaptation to the climate crisis, which has now disappeared years from the Italian political agenda “.
“Worrying – warns the environmental association – also the overall data of recent years: from 2010 to today (September 2022) in the Peninsula there have been 510 floods (and floods from intense rains that have caused damage) of which, if we move to the central Italy, 57 in Lazio, 36 in Tuscany, 26 in the Marche and 6 in Umbria.
For Legambiente Italy “has remained the only large European country without a climate adaptation plan, so it continues to chase emergencies without a clear prevention strategy that goes to protect the urbanized areas and the natural environments of the plains and mountains “.
Italy “is increasingly subject to extreme climatic events: water bombs, such as that of the Marche region, but also tornadoes, heat wavesstrong droughts and hailstorms are now strongly increasing – the association notes – affecting above all urban areas and causing damage to territories and risks for the lives of citizens “.
According to data from the City Climate Observatory edited by Legambiente, From January to July 2022, 132 extreme climatic events were recorded in Italy, a number higher than the annual average of the last decade. “The overall data of the last few years is also worrying: from 2010 to July 2022 in the Peninsula there were 1318 extreme events, with very significant impacts in 710 Italian municipalities”, underlines the association.
“There is no more time to waste. Need to be updated and approved by the end of the year – declared Stefano Ciafani, national president of Legambiente – the national plan for adaptation to the climate crisis, on standby since 2018to practice serious territorial policies for the prevention of hydrogeological risk, with a national law against land consumption and relocation interventions, and to promote information campaigns of coexistence with risk to avoid behaviors that endanger people’s lives “.
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