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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 [...]

Climate-KIC InnoSpace Journey: from data to climate solutions

From June 24 to July 28, 2018, a five-week intensive Journey around Europe trained 40 young “InnoSpacers” to combine Earth Observation data with entrepreneurial skills and forge new business ideas to face the climate challenge [...]

Research insights and policy solutions: An innovative international partnership between CMCC and RFF

A new transatlantic research institute on climate change and natural resource economics is born [...]

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 [...]

#WEARECMCC Once upon a time in Giove
The dream of being a primary school teacher, at first. Then, love at first sight with Geology after reading “A journey to the centre of the Earth”. Get to know Monia Santini, CMCC researcher at Viterbo’s IAFES Division, among mineral collections, scientific passions and American gangster movies [...]
IDDRI2018 International Day for Disaster Reduction: a snapshot of the CMCC research
Held every 13 October, the day celebrates how people and communities around the world are reducing their exposure to disasters. The CMCC Foundation is at the forefront – with its researchers and projects – to address this issue and provide concrete recommendations and solutions [...]

ECONOMICS Growth, climate, sustainability: Romer, Nordhaus and the Nobel Prize who looks to the future
The insight, the science and the vision of the two economists, and how they provided the background for part of the CMCC research. Comments by Carlo Carraro, Valentina Bosetti, and Massimo Tavoni. [...]
INFOGRAPHIC Global Warming of 1.5°C
The implications of limiting the global warming at 1,5°C. Where we are now, and what difference does it make half degree? [...]

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