• Start year: 2022
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

Siena Province by Provincial Agency for Energy, the Environment and Sustainable Development controls thermal plants in its territory (not in the Siena Municipality territory). Results are very interesting: 90.000 boiler controlled per year means 30.000 t CO2 eq./year avoided.

• Start year: 2013
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: In operation

The Provincial Energy Plan gives criteria for reducing energy consumptions, reset CO2 emissions and developping renewable energy. Siena Province is carbon free since 2011. The main actions are improving renewable energy sources from geothermal, photovoltaic and waste; energy efficiency in buildings, rules for new buildings, information and sensitization.

• Start year: 2006
• Type: Regulatory
• Status: In operation

Civil protection plan give guidelines for environmental risks and emergency situations: hydraulic risk, fire risk ecc. Important is the collaboration that is created with Provincial Coordination of Civil Protection volunteer associations from different sectors: health, fire protection of woods, logistics, and specialists (skuba drivers, avieators, parachutists etc.)

• Start year: 2012
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

The project consists in forest fire protection with controls on woods by qualified employees and volunteers. In Siena Province there is an operative central for emergency. One important action is the reforestation of wood.