In 2019, land consumption in Italy (i.e. its coverage with cement or asphalt) advanced by another 57 km2, at the rate of 2 square meters per second. This is confirmed by the data of the ISPRA SNPA Report "Land use in Italy 2020" presented today in Rome.
Veneto, with +785 hectares, is the region that consumes the most soil in 2019 (although less than 2017 and 2018), followed by Lombardy (+642 hectares), Puglia (+625), Sicily (+611) and Emilia -Romagna (+404).
Valle d'Aosta, with only 3 hectares of waterproofed territory in the last year, is the first Italian region close to the "Land consumption 0" target Rome, with an increase of 108 hectares of artificial soil, confirms the Italian municipality with the greatest amount of land transformed in a year (reaching 500 hectares from 2012 to today), followed by Cagliari (+58 hectares in a year) and Catania (+48 hectares).
It is better in Milan, Florence and Naples, with less than one hectare consumption in the last 12 months (+125 hectares in the last 7 years in Milan, +16 in Florence and +24 in Naples in the same period). Turin, after the decrease in 2018, starts building again in 2019, losing 5 hectares of natural soil.