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.
Mobile microclimate monitoring in Rome
Thanks to the collaboration between Roma Capitale, ISAC-CNR and ATAC, a microclimatic monitoring programme has been launched using a network of sensors capable of mapping with a resolution of just a few tens of metres. The trial, which began in August 2024, involved the installation of a patented multi-sensor weather device designed for use on the move (MeteoTracker) on the roofs of 20 ATAC buses, capable of measuring 10 weather parameters every 5 seconds. The data is georeferenced and sent to the cloud in real time, and can be viewed, also in real time, on a specially designed interactive map. The mobile network generates a stream of around 80,000 measurements per day, totalling, to date, approximately 38 million. The research carried out by ISAC-CNR is enabling the identification – in terms of the extent and quantification of thermal anomalies – of urban areas particularly exposed to the urban heat island effect and, conversely, the beneficial effect of trees and urban parks. This information is invaluable for the adoption of effective measures to adapt to climate change.