Environment

Environment
See also: List of national parks of Italy and List of regional parks of Italy

Cape Palinuro, in the Cilento National Park.

After its quick industrial growth, Italy took a long time to confront its environmental problems. After several improvements, it now ranks 84th in the world for ecological sustainability.[42] National parks cover about five percent of the country.[43] In the last decade, Italy has became one of the world's largest producers of renewable energy, ranking as the world’s fifth largest solar energy producer in 2009[44][45] and the sixth largest producer of wind power in 2008.[46]

However, air pollution remains a severe problem, especially in the industrialised north, reaching the tenth highest level worldwide of industrial carbon dioxide emissions in the 1990s.[47] Italy is the twelfth largest carbon dioxide producer.[48][49] Extensive traffic and congestion in the largest metropolitan areas continue to cause severe environmental and health issues, even if smog levels have decreased dramatically since the 1970s and 80s, and the presence of smog is becoming an increasingly rarer phenomenon and levels of sulphur dioxide are decreasing.[50]




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