“A scary climate. Once again we are faced with extreme weather events that put the lives of citizens at risk, causing serious damage to the territory.
The climate crisis is accelerating its course more and more together with extreme events, which are having an ever greater impact on the entire region. There is no more time to waste”. This is how Legambiente comments in a note on the water bomb that hit Cilento.
“We need coherent political strategies immediately – it is underlined – to fight climate change starting from updating and approving by the end of the year the national plan for adaptation to the climate crisis, on standby since 2018, practicing serious territorial policies for the prevention of hydrogeological risk, with a national law against land consumption and relocation interventions, and promoting information campaigns for living with risk to avoid behaviors that put people's lives at risk.
Today there are solutions to change our economic model and convert it: all that is needed is political will”. According to the latest photograph taken by Legambiente's CittàClima 2022 Observatory, in Campania in 2022, 12 extreme events were recorded, 5 of which between Salerno and the province and 4 between Naples and the province.
In Campania, according to the latest Ispra data, over 287.500 people live in areas defined as high risk of landslides and mudslides. In the Province of Salerno, over 93 people live in areas at high risk of landslides and mudslides and where over 31.000 buildings exposed to high risk of landslides are located.
The picture is no different for the number of people at medium/high risk of flooding. The Province of Salerno is the one at greatest risk with the highest number of people exposed to floodable areas: over 135 thousand and where over 21 thousand buildings are located.
Article published on November 20, 2022 - 14:10
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