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CLIMATE WITHOUT BORDERS wins the Best Climate Solutions Award 2018

The project represented by Belgian weather presenter Jill Peeters has been awarded as the best initiative to communicate climate change in the international Call for Proposals conceived by the CMCC Foundation and co-produced with the Festival for the Earth [...]

The CMCC at the UN Climate Conference COP24

Decarbonization policies, climate innovation and finance, climate services, the evaluation of the EU Adaptation Strategy. Side events and debate with CMCC at COP24 in Katowice, Poland [...]

#THINK2030 FOR A SUSTAINABLE EUROPE

The new report calls for a high-level action plan to boost sustainable consumption, mitigate climate change and stop biodiversity loss [...]

From Climathon Venice, seven bright ideas for a new waste management. Here the winners

32 participants, seven groups, 24h to win a challenge: to find new and effective methods to reduce, recycle and recover waste in Venice [...]

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 [...]

FORESTS Mediterranean forests: key ecosystem services and their vulnerability
How can we delineate new and suitable strategies and plans for forest protection and management? A report realized by CMCC researchers Sergio Noce and Monia Santini provides a synthetic overview about the existing key forest ecosystem services in the Mediterranean area, and about how they seem currently impacted by climate and, in some cases, by land use change, human pressures and wrong management [...]
#WEARECMCC Portrait of a curious guy
Numbers are important but are not the only thing. Notes, words, flavors, memories matter, too. A researcher at the EIEE and the ECIP division (Economic analysis of the Climate Impacts and Policy Division), Andrea Bigano makes sure not to miss anything [...]

ENERGY Bridging the gap: do fossil technologies facilitate renewable energy diffusion?
How can modern fossil power generation support renewable energy investments? A new study on Energy Policy shows that higher gas-fired capacity is associated with more renewable investments. An analysis of the indirect costs of renewable energy integration [...]
FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS Climate change and land use change: a multi-risk assessment of freshwater ecosystem services
A new study on Science of the Total Environment assessed the impacts of climate change and human activities on freshwater services: a focus on the Po river basin (Italy) and the Red River basin (Vietnam). Among the authors CMCC researchers Vuong Pham, Silvia Torresan, Andrea Critto and Antonio Marcomini
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COP24 / CMCC WEBINARS Climate negotiations in Katowice: the outcome of COP24
CMCC researchers attending climate negotiations tell us what happened at COP24. Watch the video of the last 2018 CMCC webinar! [...]
CMCC WEBINARS IPCC Special Report on impacts of global warming of 1.5°C: An overview of the main outcomes
Marco Bindi, Full Professor at the University of Florence, Dept. of Agri-Food Production and Environmental Sciences, provided an overview of the main key findings of the IPCC Special Report Global Warming of 1.5°C during a CMCC webinar. Watch the video [...]

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