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  • 21 March 2012
    NEW!!! - Forum ACT Competition extended up to 31 may 2012
    During the 13th Plenary Session of the Forum of Adriatic and Ionian Cities and the 1st Adriatic - Ionian Forum of Youth, held in Ancona on 14-16 December, it has been launched the international competition "CHANGE" within the project ACT-Adapting to Climate Change in Time.Please note that the competition,...
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  • 19 - 20 March 2012
    ACT Partners invited to the UNISDR Conference in Venice
    ACT Partners – Municipality of Ancona, ADEP Patras and ISPRA - attended the conference “Building cities' resilience to disasters: protecting cultural heritage and adapting to climate change” organized by UNISDR (United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat) in Venice...
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  • 13 January 2012
    Bullas: presentation of a Blog on ACT Project
    A blog related to the Project ACT Life + and its actions in the Municipality of Bullas was presented last Friday 13th of January in the Bullas Council Town. The presentation was done by the Councillor of European Projects Ms. María Antonia Abril, accompanied by the Mayor of Bullas, Mr. Pedro Chico....
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  • 14-16 December 2011
    FAIC Plenary Session: launched the "ACT Change"school competition
    During the Plenary Session in Ancona (14-16 December 2011), the FAIC (Forum of Adriatic and Ionian Cities) presented the competition “CHANGE” to create a multimedia CD-Rom or DVD slideshow, addressed to hign schools students from cities involeved in the project ACT an cities-members of the Forum.The...
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  • 14-16 December 2011
    FAIC - 13th Plenary Assembly in Ancona
    The ACT project was presented in a special section of the 13th Plenary Assembly of FAIC (Forum of Adriatic and Ionian Cities) held in Ancona on 14-16 December.The project was explained by Marco Cardinaletti, as ACT Project Manger, and also contextualized by the Mayor of Ancona, Diego Franzoni.See the...
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  • 09-12 November 2011
    ACT Project at Ecomondo 2011
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  • 14 October 2011
    ACT Presentation during the Final Conference of LIFE Project "LAKS"
    The ACT Project Manager, Marco Cardinaletti, was at the final conference of the LAKS in Reggio Emilia on 14 October to present ACT Project and discuss about new energies with zero CO2, Intelligent networks and services, A city moving better, A greener and more efficient city - Low-carbon economy, Adaptation...
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  • Brussels, 12-14 September 2011
    ACT project at the ICLEI European Convention 2011 Cities in Europe 2020 - Enhance sustainability now
    The ICLEI European Convention 2011 "Cities in Europe 2020 - Enhance sustainability now!" acted as a forum to discuss the implementation of Europe-wide sustainability measures in cities focusing on the Europe 2020 Strategy and its seven flagship initiatives.From 12-14 September 2011, over 300 participants...
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  • Ancona, 27-31 August 2011
    The Exhibition on the Macroregion organized by the Forum of Adriatic and Ionian Cities in Ancona
    From 27 to 31 of August 2011 was held in Ancona the exhibition entitled "The Adriatic-Ionian Macroregion for the development of Europe." The event was attended by all the parties interested in the development of the Macroregion, both on the Italian and the other side of the Adriatic Sea with special...
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  • June 2011
    Bullas: winner of the “Awards of Sustainable Development 2011”
    The ACT partner, Municipality of Bullas, is one of the winners of the "Awards of Sustainable Development 2011".The Regional Government of Murcia, through its Monitoring Commission of the Social Pact for the Environment, has chosen the winners of the "Awards of Sustainable Development 2011". These awards...
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  • 03-05 June 2011
    2nd World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change in Bonn - Germany
    The second run of Resilient Cities: world congress on cities and adaptation to climate change opened the 3rd June in Bonn Germany, welcoming 550 delegates, including mayors, governors, top UN officials and major stakeholders from around the world.Mr. Cardinaletti, as project manager, presented ACT project...
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  • 12-13 May 2011
    ISPRA workshop Local impact assessment of climate change
    In the framework of the Life Project ACT - Adapting to Climate change in Time, the last 12th and 13th May 2011 ISPRA organised a workshop on Local Impact Assessment of climate change in order to provide to the municipalities of Ancona, Bullas and Patras support and coordination to the implementation...
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  • 14 December 2010
    ACT Partner & the UNISDR Campaign Making Cities Resilient: My city is getting ready
    ACT Partners sign the UNISDR campaign “MAKING CITIES RESILIENT” during the Initial ACT Conference in Ancona, 14th December 2011. ...
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ACT - Adapting to Climate Change in Time

What is Adaptation?

Adaptation is, together with mitigation, one of the two concurrent actions that must be undertaken to face the problem of climate change. As the IPCC has stated: mitigation aims at avoiding the unmanageable impacts, while adaptation aims at managing the unavoidable impacts. It aims at increasing the resilience of natural and human systems to current and future impacts of climate change.

Project objectives

Starting form this idea, the project Adapting to climate change in time - ACT aspires to demonstrate that through an inclusive and participated process, shared by all the local actors involved, is possible to develop a "local adaptation plan" which will support the forecast and mitigation of environmental, social and economic impacts of climate change on the most vulnerable sectors of the European cities in the Mediterranean basin.

The project has specifically these objectives: (by decreasing order of importance)

  • To develop a standardized process to draw and implement local adaptation strategies, easily applicable to a wide range of local authorities to forecast the impacts of climate change on a local scale and to define corresponding actions.
  • To involve (by increasing their awareness) local actors (local industries, citizens, health system, civil protection, etc.) in the development of local adaptation strategy.
  • To develop and disseminates guidelines that can encourage other European communities (in particular in the Mediterranean basin) to adopt the same process and to develop their own local adaptation strategies.

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  • 16 April 2012
    Climate change and local authorities, the new manual to adopt an integrated management system
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  • 05 April 2012
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  • 28 March 2012
    Effects of climate change on outdoor laboratories
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  • 26 March 2012
    NEW European Clearinghouse on Adaptation to climate change CLIMATE-ADAPT is born
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  • 07 March 2012
    Adaptation Partnership: review of current and planned adaptation
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  • 13 February 2012
    New report from Resilient Cities conference
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  • 08 February 2012
    A "climate-smart" approach to agriculture
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  • 30 January 2012
    CRES - Climaresilienti
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  • 27 January 2012
    The Private Sector Initiative - database of actions on adaptation is online
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  • 10 January 2012
    New software for climate simulation created by a EU/USA research team
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