Urban areas are known to be among the main contributors to climate change worldwide. At the same time, they are especially at risk from the impacts of climate change. There is a growing recognition that climate change is here for the long term, and that actions are needed, not just mitigation, but also to adapt to the impacts that we can expect to see now and in the future. Consequently, innovative responses for raising the resilience and adaptation of Mediterranean cities are needed.
Capitalising and combining the results of previous and ongoing projects (CESBA MED Sustainable MED Cities, Sustainable MED Cities, ARTACLIM and Habit.A). ReMED (Towards Climate Resilient Mediterranean Cities) will develop an innovative set of affordable tools, along with an overarching decision support framework, to help cities in:
- assessing and understanding the level of climate risk at urban and building scale
- designing optimal climate adaptation measures in relation to local conditions
- implementing climate adaptation measures through the most suitable policy instruments
- monitoring and evaluating the results of adaptation measures over time.
ReMED will support a Multi-Level Governance (MLG) in climate adaptation, as recommended by the UN COP26. ReMED methods, tools and decision support framework will be organised in a friendly web-based tool, the ReMED Platform. ReMED will deliver capacity building measures towards public authorities in the use of the ReMED Platform to facilitate its practical use and uptake. The focus of the capacity building process will be the test of the ReMED Platform to support the implementation of adaptation measures through policy instruments. The main output of the project will be an overall raised capacity of public authorities in deploying effective measures to improve the resilience of cities.
