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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 [...]

COP24 / CMCC WEBINARS Climate negotiations in Katowice: the outcome of COP24
CMCC researchers attending climate negotiations will tell us what happened at COP24. On December 21, 2018, join the CMCC webinar! [...]
ETC/CCA TECHNICAL PAPER Cooperation is key to improve climate change adaptation in sensitive European border regions, maritime areas
Europe’s border regions and maritime areas like its Arctic and Mediterranean regions are facing more negative impacts due to climate change, but countries responsible for these transnational areas are already taking action to adapt to changes like heat waves, or heavy rainfalls, according to an ETC/CCA Technical Paper [...]

INNOVATON DAY Leonardo Innovation Award 2018: two CMCC PhD students among the winners
Third Place PhD students award to Paola Vesco and Gabriele Accarino with a project that explores the predictive potential offered by artificial intelligence tools to forecast future migration flows while identifying the most probable countries of origin and arrival in the medium-to-long term [...]
MONGOOS Seventh MONGOOS annual assembly: major outcomes and future perspective for operational oceanography in the Mediterranean
On December 5-6, 2018, the Mediterranean Operational Network for the Global Ocean Observing System met in Genoa for its annual meeting to make a point and plan future activities and collaboration. The CMCC Foundation presented its major services and applications for coastal harbour downscaling in the Apulia Region, for oil spill response operations and for the identification of marine litter sources in the Mediterranean Sea [...]

CMCC WEBINARS Low-carbon energy finance: new insights for modelers and policy makers
Many studies analyze the innovation, diffusion, and cost developments of low-carbon energy technologies, but little research is dedicated to analyzing the financing dynamics of these technologies. Prof. Dr. Tobias S Schmidt and Dr. Bjarne Steffen of Energy Politics Group – ETH Zurich explored this issue while highlighting research results and their implications. Watch the video [...]
CLIMATE POLICIES The road towards energy transition and sustainable development
What is the influence of institutions and governance on environmental policy, environmental performance, and green investment? And what about the influence of populism and public opinion on environmental policy adoption? A new study on Energy Research and Social Science explores the issue [...]

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