Italie

The elaboration of the National Adaptation Strategy in Italy started in 2012 when the Ministry of Environment and Territory and Sea Protection entrusted the Euro-Mediterranean center of Climate Changes of the technical-scientific activities coordination. In parallel, the Ministry created an institutional consultation gathering the public institutions involved in the climate change management. The private stakeholders, ONG and the civil society have been consulted also through a series of online inquiries realized between 2012 and 2014.

The strategy is based principally on three documents :
• A technical-scientific report evaluating risks connected to water management and extreme climatic events with a focus on some specific questions like the evaluation of cost impacts and the more fragile zones (Alps, Appennines, Po valley).
• A technical juridic report exploring the existing European normative instruments and the perspective of their application in Italy and the strategies of other countries.
• A synthesis of the elements for the strategy giving a national vision of how to face the climate change impacts in different socio-economics natural and in natural systems, and on how to take advantage of the eventual opportunities that the new conditions could create. It also gives a focus on cultural heritage in consideration of its relevance in the country and of the risk of its possible damages.

More : http://www.minambiente.it/pagina/adattamento-ai-cambiamenti-climatici-0

Italy has invested significant resources to help developing countries adapt to climate change and develop on a low-emission path and wishes that future climate change negotiations will contribute to define an institutional framework to enhance such international cooperation. In such respect Italy welcomes the
result of the latest United Nations climate conference of held in Warsaw and is ready to do its part to prepare the ground for the adoption by 2015 of a new legally-binding global agreement containing emission commitments by all countries and enhancing the institutional framework to promote sustainable
development both in developing and developed countries.

Éditions Franco Angeli, Milano.

The volume has been conceived within the activities of the Osservatorio Città-Clima created by Legambiente and IUAV University of Venice, with the contribution of number of researchers of different italian universities, international research centers, cities networks and associations. The objective is to try to answer to some relevant questions : how cities have to face climate changes in order to reduce risks and impacts ? Which strategies are needed in the field of planning instruments and city and territorial management ? How changes the culture of urban project in a context of adaptation to complex processes involving urban areas, ecosystems and infrastructures ?
The book closes with an overview on Lima Cop 20.

The international conference on adaptation in Venice urban context, promoted by Legambiente and IUAV University of Venice, had the objective of understanding the climate question as a priority of the Italian government agenda.

The conference was addressed to policy makers (cities, cities networks) and private and public research centers (universities, organizations) involved in solutions, techniques and policy design experimentations for adaptation.

Urbanistica 3, n° 5.

This monographic number of the Urbanistica 3 revue, has the objective of making a state of art of the research, programs, planning actions and institutional involvements that face the challenge of climate change adaptation in Italy. It shows the important progresses in the scientific-disciplinar context, in the national application of european strategies specifically in the city of Rome (included in the Rockfeller Foundation program 100 Resilient cities).