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The impact of adaptation measures in Urban Heat Islands

A Reflection by CMCC Foundation – REMHI Division Climate change, heat waves & the Urban Heat Island effect The impacts of climate changes are expected

Dial T for Climate

The near future has a clear protagonist and its name is Temperature. It is not difficult to reach this conclusion from the reading of the latest report of the Ipcc, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with the unequivocal title: Global Warming of 1.5.

Growth, climate, sustainability: Romer, Nordhaus and the Nobel Prize which looks to the future

The 2018 Nobel prize in economics was awarded to two US scholars who have found a way to integrate innovation and sustainability into traditional macroeconomic models. CMCC scientists whose research followed the path traced by Nordhaus and Romer explain why this prize is so important.

The electrification pathway

Limiting the global temperature increase within safe levels requires an energy revolution. The development of breakthrough energy storage technologies can greatly help towards this goal.

Heat: we have learned the lessons

Summer 2003, the severe heat wave that affected Europe (15,000 excess deaths over August in France, nearly 1,100 of those in Paris) taught our cities that adaptation and preparedness are not an option but a necessity. How are we putting the lesson into practice?

Food: from vulnerability to resilience

As temperatures increase and threaten the quantity and quality of our food supplies, international trade will be increasingly important to feed the world, in addition to new practices to enhance the resilience of our food systems. Future perspectives and solutions for a cultivated planet.

Climate Week NYC 2018

UNFCCC Executive Secretariat Patricia Espinosa will deliver a keynote speech today, September 24th, to kick-off the 10th annual Climate Week NYC, where government ministers, investors,

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Sweden launches new hub to explore the linkages between climate change and conflict

Climate change is linked to some of the most pressing security challenges of our time, but the complex relationship between climate change and conflicts is far from being untangled. A new Sweden-led research collaboration aims to investigate the security implications of climate change.

Leading from the bottom-up: climate action is getting local

The Global Climate Action Summit held in San Francisco provided local leaders with a powerful platform to raise their voice, urging national governments to do more and better to tackle climate change ahead of 2020.

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World Ozone Day: while the Montreal Protocol succeeds, more efforts is needed to tackle climate change

The theme of the 2018 World Ozone Day, which is marked every year on 16 September, is Keep Cool and Carry On, a “rallying call urging all of us to carry on with the exemplary work under the Montreal Protocol”.

What are the economic benefits of sustainable growth?

Strategic policy and investment decisions supporting the transition to a pathway of low-carbon, sustainable growth could lead to direct economic gains of US$26 trillion by

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World hunger is rising and climate change has a lot to do with it

Hunger has been on the rise over the past three years, returning to levels from a decade ago. This reversal in progress sends a clear warning that more must be done and urgently if the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger is to be achieved by 2030.

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