Climate change response in Europe: What's the reality? Analysis of mitigation and adaptation plans from 200 urban areas in 11 countries. (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Climate change response in Europe: What's the reality? Analysis of mitigation and adaptation plans from 200 urban areas in 11 countries. (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2014-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1007/s10584-013-0989-8 (literal)
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  • D. Reckien 1 , J. Flacke 2, R. J. Dawson 3, O. Heidrich 3, M. Olazabal 4, 5, A. Foley 6, 7, J. J.-P. Hamann8, H. Orru 9, 10, M. Salvia 11, S. De Gregorio Hurtado 12, D. Geneletti 13 and F. Pietrapertosa 11 (2014)
    Climate change response in Europe: What's the reality? Analysis of mitigation and adaptation plans from 200 urban areas in 11 countries.
    in Climatic change; SPRINGER, DORDRECHT (Paesi Bassi)
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  • D. Reckien 1 , J. Flacke 2, R. J. Dawson 3, O. Heidrich 3, M. Olazabal 4, 5, A. Foley 6, 7, J. J.-P. Hamann8, H. Orru 9, 10, M. Salvia 11, S. De Gregorio Hurtado 12, D. Geneletti 13 and F. Pietrapertosa 11 (literal)
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  • (1) Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Columbia University, 406 Schermerhorn Hall-MC5501, 1190 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027, USA (2) Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands (3) School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, Cassie Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK (4) Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Alameda de Urquijo 4, 48008 Bilbao, Spain (5) Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, 19 Silver Street, Cambridge, CB3 9EP, UK (6) School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, Ashby Building, Stranmillis Road, Belfast, BT9 5AH, UK (7) School of Engineering, University College Cork, College Road, Cork, Ireland (8) Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement (CIRED), Campus du Jardin Tropical, 45 bis, Avenue de la Belle Gabrielle, 94736 Nogent-sur-Marne Cedex, France (9) Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Ravila 19, 50411 Tartu, Estonia (10) Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, 901 85 Umeå, Sweden (11) Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis-National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IMAA), C.da S.Loja, 85050 Tito Scalo, PZ, Italy (12) Ministerio de Fomento, Centro de Estudios y Experimentación de Obras Públicas (CEDEX), C/Alfonso XII 3 y 5, 28014 Madrid, Spain (13) Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Via Mesiano 77, 38123 Trento, Italy (literal)
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  • Climate change response in Europe: What's the reality? Analysis of mitigation and adaptation plans from 200 urban areas in 11 countries. (literal)
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  • Urban areas are pivotal to global adaptation and mitigation efforts. But how do cities actually perform in terms of climate change response? This study sheds light on the state of urban climate change adaptation and mitigation planning across Europe. Europe is an excellent test case given its advanced environmental policies and high urbanization. We performed a detailed analysis of 200 large and medium-sized cities across 11 European countries and analysed the cities' climate change adaptation and mitigation plans. We investigate the regional distribution of plans, adaptation and mitigation foci and the extent to which planned greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions contribute to national and international climate objectives. To our knowledge, it is the first study of its kind as it does not rely on self-assessment (questionnaires or social surveys). Our results show that 35 % of European cities studied have no dedicated mitigation plan and 72 % have no adaptation plan. No city has an adaptation plan without a mitigation plan. One quarter of the cities have both an adaptation and a mitigation plan and set quantitative GHG reduction targets, but those vary extensively in scope and ambition. Furthermore, we show that if the planned actions within cities are nationally representative the 11 countries investigated would achieve a 37 % reduction in GHG emissions by 2050, translating into a 27 % reduction in GHG emissions for the EU as a whole. However, the actions would often be insufficient to reach national targets and fall short of the 80 % reduction in GHG emissions recommended to avoid global mean temperature rising by 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. (literal)
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