The Layman’s report with the main results of the LIFE UrbanProof project has been published!
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LIFE UrbanProof
«Climate Proofing Urban Municipalities»
LIFE Ref. No: LIFE15 CCA/CY/000086
Project location: Cyprus, Greece, Italy
Budget: 1,854,000 € (EC Co-funding: 60%)
Duration: 55 months
Start Date: 01/10/2016
End Date: 30/04/2021
The overall aim of the UrbanProof project is to increase the resilience of municipalities to climate change equipping them with a powerful tool for supporting better informed decision making on climate change adaptation planning. The project is co-financed by the LIFE programme for the Environment and Climate Action (2014-2020).
Urbanproof Toolkit
The URBANPROOF toolkit is a powerful decision support system aimed to enable better informed decision making for climate change adaptation planning. In specific, the user is guided though the different features of the toolkit in order to gain insight into the climate change impacts to the urban environment, to explore and evaluate the available adaptation options and to investigate the effect of adaptation interventions in increasing climate change resilience.
Development of local adaptation strategies
In the framework of the LIFE UrbanProof project, the UrbanProof toolkit was used in order to develop the adaptation strategies for the municipalities of Strovolos and Lakatamia in Cyprus, Peristeri in Greece and Reggio Emilia in Italy.
Climate proofing municipalities within LIFE UrbanProof
In the framework of the LIFE URBANPROOF project, selected green and soft adaptation measures have been implemented at the partner municipalities, in order to examine their effectiveness in reducing the impacts of climate change, to increase public awareness on climate change adaptation and to prepare the ground for the implementation of the adaptation strategies.
Climate change and municipalities
Warming of the climate system is unequivocal while it is strongly believed that this is attributed to a great extent to anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the mid-20th century.
Co-funded by the European Union (LIFE15 CCA/CY/000086)
The UrbanProof project team would like to acknowledge the contribution of the Green Fund for cofunding part of its actions.
