{"id":5683695,"date":"2025-09-29T16:28:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecogestspa.com\/?p=5683695"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:28:57","slug":"italy-in-permanent-climate-emergency-the-new-ccsc-report-photographs-a-fragile-unprepared-country-at-increasing-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ecogestspa.com\/en\/italy-in-permanent-climate-emergency-the-new-ccsc-report-photographs-a-fragile-unprepared-country-at-increasing-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy in permanent climate emergency: the new CCSC report photographs a fragile, unprepared country at increasing risk"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Valerio Molinari (CCSC): “We are no longer facing a simple threat, but the heart of the problem. Every delay is measured in lives, territories and millions of euros.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Milan, 24 September 2025 – At the UN General Assembly, US President Donald Trump questioned the climate crisis <\/strong>by talking about European and UN alarmism. But, at least in Italy, <\/strong>the data tells another reality<\/strong>: climate change is already a daily emergency. This is confirmed by the new report by the Centro Studi sul Cambiamento Climatico <\/strong>(CCSC), a synthesis of the 20 regional reports already produced over the past 24 months, and now updated with the latest data, which depicts a country that is fragile, unprepared, and at growing risk.<\/p>\n

There is in fact a new map of Italy. Not drawn by borders, but by damages: those left by torrential rains, furious hailstorms, heat waves and droughts that drain basins, crops and reserves. It is the map of the climate crisis, and it is already here.<\/p>\n

The new report by the Centre for the Study of Climate Change (CCSC) <\/strong>offers an alarming but accurate picture: 351 extreme weather events in 2024 alone<\/strong>, 198 of which in the north<\/strong>. Emilia-Romagna alone suffered more than 50 destructive episodes, including Cyclone Boris<\/strong>, which turned entire river basins into hydraulic bombs. In Lombardy, more than 1,000 mm of rain <\/strong>fell between May and October, with landslides, flooding and blackouts on a vast scale.<\/p>\n

‘This is not an anticipation. It is the chronicle of the present,<\/em>‘ warns Valerio Molinari<\/strong>, president of the CCSC<\/strong>. \u201cThe projections we watched with concern five years ago have become daily bulletins. The climate has already changed our country. And we continue to chase, rather than prevent.”<\/em><\/p>\n

A fragile country, a climate gone mad.<\/strong><\/p>\n

South Italy and the Islands face the opposite side of the same disaster: chronic drought<\/strong>. In Sicily, 2024 saw rainfall 40% <\/strong>below the historical average<\/strong>, with provinces such as Ragusa and Caltanissetta at absolute lows. Water is rationed, farms close, pastures disappear. In Sardinia, reservoirs are at 52% of capacity<\/strong>, with areas where water is treated as a resource for civil protection.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, warming accelerates. From 2010 to 2024, days with over 35\u00b0C <\/strong>have doubled. In Rome, it has gone from 4 to almost 28 scorching days a year<\/strong>. Terni is now the hottest city in Italy: 49 days above 35 degrees <\/strong>in 2024 alone.<\/p>\n

The price of inaction<\/strong><\/p>\n

The climate crisis is not only environmental: it is economic, infrastructural, social<\/strong>. According to the CCSC, every euro invested in prevention today avoids at least six in future damage and reconstruction<\/strong>. But Italy continues to spend, when and if it spends, afterwards<\/em>, not before<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the two-year period 2023-2024 events with return times of over 200 years <\/strong>occurred in densely urbanised areas: Piedmont, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna. Rivers such as the Lamone, Idice or Lambro have flooded several times. In Macugnaga (VB), more than 550 mm of rain <\/strong>fell in a single night, with debris flows and isolated hamlets.<\/p>\n

Planning today is surviving tomorrow<\/strong><\/p>\n

The heart of the CCSC’s message is simple but disruptive: either you plan, or you pay<\/strong>. There is no more room for improvisation. Italy must anticipate, prevent, manage.<\/p>\n

An integrated<\/strong>, concrete, operational approach <\/strong>is needed. The report highlights three priorities:<\/p>\n