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Italy is the 3rd largest consumer of energy in the European Union after Germany and France. [9] Italy's most used sources of energy are petroleum products such as petrol, and natural gas. [9] Due to climate change, Italy has been increasing efforts to produce and consume more renewable or "green" energy to reduce their carbon emissions.
The climate of Italy is highly diverse. In most of the inland northern and central regions, the climate ranges from humid subtropical to humid continental and oceanic . The climate of the Po valley geographical region is mostly humid subtropical, with cool winters and hot summers.
From ancient times, people suspected that the climate of a region could change over the course of centuries. For example, Theophrastus, a pupil of Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle in the 4th century BC, told how the draining of marshes had made a particular locality more susceptible to freezing, and speculated that lands became warmer when the clearing of forests exposed them to sunlight.
Italy's new right-wing government remains committed to decarbonisation in line with the Paris climate agreement, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told the COP27 summit on Monday. Signatories to the ...
Italy announced measures on Wednesday to help families and businesses hit by extreme climate events, as the country reels from a heatwave in the south and fierce storms in the north. Giorgia ...
The Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) is an Italian research centre [5] dedicated to climate and climate related research, including climate variability, its causes and consequences, [6] carried out through numerical models ranging from Global Earth System to regional models within the Euro-Mediterranean area.
They fought in Germany, in France, in Italy, the Spanish Netherlands, in North Africa, on the fleet—on the Invincible Armada (1588), too—and in Central and South America, with very good results. [11] The War of the Spanish Succession saw control of much of Naples and Sicily pass from Spain to Austria, with the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713.
Germany and Italy agreed Wednesday to work closer together in the fields of energy, technology, climate protection, security and cultural cooperation among other issues. German Chancellor Olaf ...