The monitoring of environmental and climate data affecting the Rome area now plays a fundamental role in understanding ongoing processes, the impacts of climate change, verifying the effectiveness of policies and updating objectives and priorities for action.
The Climate Adaptation Strategy Monitoring Platform
Rome’s Climate Adaptation Strategy has identified priorities, objectives and measures to prepare the city for the scenario of impacts already underway and those that may intensify as a consequence of global warming processes.
One of the most important measures to accompany the Strategy’s implementation pathway is the creation of a monitoring system with the objective of understanding the evolution of ongoing processes through the identification of a system of climate indicators – in line with the National Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change (PNACC) – and to define a climate profiling that can support adaptation activities and understand which ones need to be adapted and implemented.
The first Climate Monitoring Report of the City of Rome, presented on June 25, 2025, is the result of a technical and scientific collaboration with the CMCC Foundation (Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change). It was created with the goal of supporting the Municipality in developing effective tools to address the challenges of climate change adaptation in the urban environment. The creation of a regularly updated online platform makes it possible to analyze the risks associated with climate change and to explore, in an interactive way, the various data and indicators of the municipal area.
Hydrogeological risk and water management
The River Basin Authority of the Central Apennines (AUBAC) provides, on its website, data and indicators of great interest for understanding the ongoing processes in Rome and in the municipalities of the Metropolitan City. In particular, the digital twin allows users to access maps, data, and information related to hydrogeological risk planning (landslides, flood risks, and areas affected by wildfires), the protection and management of water resources (river basins, major water withdrawals, chemical and ecological status of water bodies), as well as climatic and hydrological conditions used to forecast water severity scenarios across the entire district.
Monitoraggio mobile del microclima di Roma
Grazie alla collaborazione tra Roma Capitale, ISAC-CNR e ATAC, è stata avviata un’attività di monitoraggio microclimatico attraverso una rete di sensori in grado di mappare con una risoluzione di appena poche decine di metri. La sperimentazione, iniziata ad Agosto 2024, ha installato un dispositivo meteo multi-sensore brevettato per l’utilizzo in mobilità (MeteoTracker), sul tetto di 20 autobus ATAC, in grado di misurare 10 parametri meteo ogni 5 secondi. I dati vengono georeferenziati e inviati sul cloud in tempo reale e sono visualizzabili, sempre in tempo reale, su una mappa interattiva realizzata ad hoc. La rete mobile genera un flusso di circa 80mila misurazioni al giorno per un totale, a oggi, di circa 38 milioni. L’attività di ricerca svolta da ISAC-CNR , sta consentendo l’individuazione – in termini di perimetrazione e quantificazione delle anomalie termiche – di aree urbane particolarmente esposte al fenomeno dell’isola di calore urbane e, di converso, l’effetto benefico delle alberature e dei parchi urbani. Elementi informativi preziosi per l’adozione di misure efficaci per l’adattamento al cambiamento climatico.
