Pollution in Italian cities has not increased except (and slightly) in some cases. This is what emerges from the report by researchers from the Kyoto Club and the Cnr, "MobilitAria". No city saw an increase in nitrogen dioxide (N02) values last year. However, a decrease in PM10 particulate concentrations was recorded in Cagliari (-4%) , Rome (-4%), Turin (-12%), Milan (-20%), Genoa (-5%), Bari (- 4%), Bologna (-16%), and Naples (-4%). Modest rise, however, for values in Messina (+10%), Palermo (+4%) and Florence (+4%).
In all cities decreasing numbers for PM2.5, with peaks of success in Turin (-23%) and Milan (-17%).
In general, however, the objectives of sustainable mobility are still too far away, according to Kyoto Club and Cnr it is necessary to continue to favor proposals for "cities made for people" , we read in the report, as in the case of Bologna 30. While " the MIT has marked an involution, which finds its peak in the counter-reform of the Highway Code, approved in the Chamber of Deputies in the first reading", he continues.
Premature deaths and economic consequences
There are up to 2,755 premature deaths associated with pollution in Rome, 2,059 in Milan according to the report.
The lowest preventable premature death rates are instead in Cagliari, where 5 (± 0.04) deaths are attributable to long-term exposure to PM10, while 21.88 (± 0.15) to PM2.5 and 18, 66 (± 0.14) at No2. However, Messina and Reggio Calabria are worse off in percentage terms compared to the objectives indicated by the WHO in its guidelines to avoid premature deaths from exposure to No2, respectively -298% and -273% from the targets. Cagliari follows at a distance (-163%). Palermo and Bari, however, did better, with -92% and -84%.
Kyoto Club and Cnr have also calculated the economic impact of the health impact, which varies from 17 million euros in Cagliari to 7 billion in Milan. As regards emissions from ships, inserted like the previous data for the first time in the document, in Rome, Civitavecchia and Venice the contribution of cruise ships to the emission of nitrogen oxides and, above all, sulfur oxides, is estimated to be greater than that of all local cars.
(Unioneonline/D)
