Climate mitigation in the Mediterranean Europe: An assessment of regional and city-level plans

Salvia, Monica; Olazabal, Marta; Fokaides, Paris A.; Tardieu, Léa; Simões, Sofia; Geneletti, Davide; Hurtado, Sonia De Gregorio; Viguié, Vincent; Spyridaki, Niki-Artemis; Pietrapertosa, Filomena; Ioannou, Byron; Matosović, Marko; Flamos, Alexandros; Balzan, Mario V.; Feliú, Efrén; Rižnar, Klavdija; Šel, Nataša Belšak; Heidrich, Oliver; Reckien, Diana

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113146

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“…The methods used to investigate the roots of the CED movement in local climate planning build on previous studies concerning the analysis of local climate plans of European [8] and Mediterranean cities [26]. They were further developed to analyse climate emergency declarations and, most importantly, the links between local climate planning and CEDs.…”

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“…However, while cities and local communities are increasingly engaged in climate action [25] there is also the recognition that this is not enough to prevent dangerous interference with the climate system and safeguard a world at or below 2 • C warming above pre-industrial levels [26]. Much more drastic action would be needed, widespread and soon.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Understanding the motivations and implications of climate emergency declarations in cities: The case of Italy

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Geneletti

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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Understanding the motivations and implications of climate emergency declarations in cities: The case of Italy

Salvia

Reckien

Geneletti

et al. 2023

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…(iv) have different focus on regional climate adaptation and mitigation: This weakens the role of regions in climate action. Individually, regions are not strong enough to achieve the much-needed impact in addressing climate change and building resilience (De Gregorio Hurtado et al, 2015;Desa, 2016;Salvia et al, 2021).…”

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“…Hence, they are difficult to upscale and replicate in a systematic mode to achieve the much-needed impact in timely addressing climate change and building resilience (Kramer et al, 2022). In addition, existing actions have been often focused on countries and cities, while a gap emerge in the role of regions that should be strengthened to make solutions scalable and still related to geographical specificity, being the regional scale an optimal meeting point and delivery arena for European and national climate strategies and objectives (De Gregorio Hurtado et al, 2015;Salvia et al, 2021).…”

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Development of a Novel Framework for the Assessment and Improvement of Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Actions in Europe

Aalmo

Gioli

Rodriguez

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Cities

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The greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions in the European Union (EU) are mainly caused by human activity from five sectors—power, industry, transport, buildings, and agriculture. To tackle all these challenges, the EU actions and policies have been encouraging initiatives focusing on a holistic approach but these initiatives are not enough coordinated and connected to reach the much needed impact. To strengthen the important role of regions in climate actions, and stimulate wide stakeholders' engagement including citizens, a conceptual framework for enabling rapid and far-reaching climate actions through multi-sectoral regional adaptation pathways is hereby developed. The target audience for this framework is composed by regional policy makers, developers and fellow scientists. The scale of the framework emphasizes the regional function as an important meeting point and delivery arena for European and national climate strategies and objectives both at urban and rural level. The framework is based on transformative and no-regret measures, prioritizing the Key Community Systems (KCS) that most urgently need to be protected from climate impacts and risks.

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“…In Europe, coastal cities bordering the Mediterranean, e.g. Zagreb, Athens (Greece), Rome (Italy), Valencia (Spain), are prone to climate change impacts, including changes in the water cycle and desertification [19]; In addition, Vienna (Italy) and Salzburg (Austria) are affected by extreme weather affecting tourism and the economy of the cities [20]. In America, California (United States), climate change causes fires, floods, hurricanes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters [21].…”

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Cities resilient to climate change through natural heritage: a bibliometric review

Herrera-Franco

Mata-Perelló

Carrión-Mero

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 4th International Electronic Conference on Geosciences

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Natural heritage is the composition between biodiversity and geodiversity; therefore, it is also a primary source of ecosystem and geosystem services that have multiple benefits such as adaptation to climate change. However, it is mainly found in natural environments. On the other hand, due to climate change, there are cities around the world with extreme conditions such as heat or cold waves. The aim of this article is to analyse the implications of climate change in urban areas through a bibliometric mapping of ecosystem and geosystem services in urban planning of cities for the use of natural heritage as control and development of cities. The methods are indicated in a) selection of the topic, keywords and scientific databases; b) pre-processing, merging of databases, and data processing using Bibliometrix-RStudio; and c) analysis and interpretation of results. A total of 1425 records were found in Scopus and 1839 in the Web of Science, and the countries contributing to the subject are the United States (54%), China (52.2%), Germany (18.4%), the United Kingdom (17.8%), and Italy (15.8%). In addition, the processing of the unified database made it possible to recognize i) conceptual and intellectual structure, research trends over time. Finally, geosystem services and ecosystem services help mitigate climate change through green infrastructure, blue infrastructure, and their adaptability to gray infrastructure, contributing to sustainable development goals: sustainable cities and communities and climate action.

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Climate mitigation in the Mediterranean Europe: An assessment of regional and city-level plans

Cited by 33 publications

References 28 publications

Understanding the motivations and implications of climate emergency declarations in cities: The case of Italy

Understanding the motivations and implications of climate emergency declarations in cities: The case of Italy

Development of a Novel Framework for the Assessment and Improvement of Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Actions in Europe

Cities resilient to climate change through natural heritage: a bibliometric review

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