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Lecce: here the green city to address climate change

Innovation, environmental services, air quality and the quality of life, resistance to heat waves and intense precipitation: the city of the future bets on green [...]

The potential of urban green spaces and strategies for waste management: Climathon Lecce and Venice on the starting blocks

Twenty-four hours to propose solutions for the sustainable development of their own cities and address climate change [...]

Summary for Policymakers of IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C approved by governments

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require rapid, far- reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, the IPCC said in a new assessment. [...]

European Researchers' Night: the CMCC Foundation participates with two events in Bologna and in Lecce

Two cities, two events to spread the culture of science and scientific careers. On September 28, 2018, the CMCC open its centers [...]

High Emitting Countries to Suffer Economic Damages from Climate Change

Highest for the 3 top emitters (China, India and US), and globally higher and more unequal than normally assumed. Costs of climate change in a novel international study [...]

FireAware, a free mobile App for fire notifications

Science and citizens brought together in an experiment to fight fire hazard. The new application for iOS is available [...]

GEOENGINEERING Climate engineering: what risks without global cooperation?
It’s considered as a new strategy to complement traditional climate policies, but without sufficiently strong institutions, there is a risk that some countries will unilaterally deploy climate engineering to the detriment of other nations. The governance challenges and risks raised by climate engineering, in a study just published on Global Environmental Change by Johannes Emmerling and Massimo Tavoni [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE & DRR Climate change and natural disaster: scientists and policy makers meet in Greece
Antonio Navarra will attend the conference in Athens dedicated to climate change impacts and disaster risk reduction giving the speech: “The challenge of climate change” [...]

OIL SPILL Corsica oil spill in October 2018: the CMCC delivered 5 pollution forecast bulletins
After the incident off the coast of Corsica, the CMCC scientific division OPA – Ocean Predictions and Applications started to collaborate with REMPEC while delivering some forecasting bulletins to trace oil movement [...]
PNAS ARTICLE Hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean: improved predictive ability and the role of sub-surface ocean temperature
The ability to predict North Atlantic hurricane activity months in advance has been significantly improved by including a non-local effect associated with eastern Atlantic Ocean temperature in the tropical cyclone seasonal forecasting systems. From the more than ten-year CMCC research on tropical cyclones and the global ocean, a new study on PNAS [...]

SCIENCE&POLICY The political dimension of climate change
Science is a social process, but is usually considered special in its ability to correctly deconstruct, analyze and describe complex phenomena. How much do climate science and society steer each other? How independent are the different social spheres of people and concepts? Watch the video of the CMCC webinar held by Prof. Hans von Storch, Director emeritus Institute of Coastal Research, Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany [...]
FORESTS A reliable tracking of land-use emissions to assess progress towards the Paris Agreement
The goals of the Paris Agreement require forest-based mitigation. But the global modeling community and countries apply different methods to measure and report land-based greenhouse gases. So, how to reconcile these conceptual differences? A new study on Nature Climate Change explores the reasons for these differences and outlines ways to reconcile them [...]

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