Europe's environment 2025

Europe's environment 2025 / EEA 29 Sept. 2025 - 7th Ed. 1995 - 2025

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Knowledge for resilience, prosperity and sustainability

Every five years, as mandated in its founding regulation, the European Environment Agency (EEA) publishes a state of the environment report. Europe's environment 2025 provides decision makers at European and national levels as well as the general public with a comprehensive and cross-cutting assessment on environment, climate and sustainability in Europe.

Europe's environment 2025 is the 7th state of the environment report published by the EEA since 1995. 

Europe's environment 2025 has been prepared in close collaboration with the EEA’s European Environment Information and Observation Network (Eionet). The report draws on the Eionet’s vast expertise of leading experts and scientists in the environmental field, across the EEA’s 32 member countries and six cooperating countries.

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The Italy country profile provides a concise overview of key trends across three dimensions: environment and climate; socio-economic change; and system change (energy, mobility and food) in the country. It highlights the main developments and challenges in these areas, including measures to support progress towards sustainability in Italy. An assessment for each of the three dimensions was prepared by national experts from the European Environment Information and Observation Network (Eionet) in Italy, based on 20 established indicators from the EEA or Eurostat.

Italy faces socioeconomic challenges, including a widening generational economic gap, poor social mobility and significant energy poverty, affecting millions of households. Structural reforms and investments (e.g. Italy’s national recovery and resilience plan) aim to address these issues through furthering sustainable prosperity and competitiveness, digitalisation and innovation. The interaction between social, environmental and economic challenges is addressed within the national sustainable development strategy, which incorporates the 2030 agenda and its sustainable development goals for Italy, while also aligning with the objectives of the national recovery and resilience plan. The national sustainable development strategy is the reference framework for maintaining coherent national sustainable development policies through the annual monitoring the 55 most representative indicators.[/box-note]

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