Italy - Environment
As far as the environment of Italy is concerned, there have been air pollution from industrial emissions such as sulfur dioxide; coastal and inland rivers polluted from industrial and agricultural effluents; acid rain damaging lakes; inadequate industrial waste treatment and disposal facilities. As for nvironment - international agreements, we have; Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protection, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change-Paris Agreement, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping-London Convention, Marine Dumping-London Protocol, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 2006, Wetlands, Whaling.
About the environment of Italy
| Climate | We have predominantly Mediterranean; alpine in far north; hot, dry in south |
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| Revenue from forest resources | 0.01% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Revenue from coal | 0% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 29.524 million tons (2015 est.) |
| Total renewable water resources | 191.3 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | |
| Total water withdrawal | |
| Municipal | 9.19 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Industrial | 7.7 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Agricultural | 17 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Air pollutants | |
| Particulate matter emissions | 14.22 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
| Methane emissions | 41.3 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 47.1% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 22.8% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 8.6% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 15.7% (2018 est.) |
| Forest | 31.4% (2018 est.) |
| Other | 21.5% (2018 est.) |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 72% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | 0.27% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 4.316 million ROME (capital), 3.155 million Milan, 2.179 million Naples, 1.802 million Turin, 913,000 Bergamo, 850,000 Palermo (2023). |
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