In Italy, extreme climatic events are on the rise, already 130 since the beginning of the year

There are

This is the highest number of the annual average of the last decade.

The impact of climate change is increasingly worrying: from the heat emergency to intense showers, and then hailstorms, tornadoes and floods.

The Italian Society of Environmental Medicine sounded the alarm, commenting on the flood that hit the Marche. 

"The

due to climate change cause a lot of energy to accumulate in atmospheric systems, which is poured into the ground through

and frequent, dramatically increasing the danger.

Because of us storms, floods, tornadoes and cyclones in the future will be more numerous and destructive - says President Sima, Alessandro Miani - Climate change has the ability to influence the intensity and number of meteorological phenomena, thus making them more dangerous and destructive.

The anomalous distribution of precipitation is increasingly taking the form of extreme events concentrated in autumn-winter, sometimes associated with Mediterranean hurricanes: 60 in the last 40 years, but with forecasts of 3 new events per year ”.

From 2010 to July 2022

in our peninsula there were

with enormous consequences on the territory and on citizens - analyzes Sima - 516 floods from intense rains, 367 damage from tornadoes, 123 river floods, 55 landslides from intense rains.

"As SIMA we share the line of the

, according to which any action that goes in the direction of reducing climate-altering emissions is also to be considered a positive public health intervention and we will

to put respect of the Paris Agreements signed by Italy and as part of the

, starting with the launch of a large and widespread

to be carried out without delay by Regions and Municipalities.

The medium-term objective should be to plant 350 billion trees worldwide to reduce CO2 by 10% globally - adds Miani - The

(Pnacc) must then be approved as soon as possible.

".