Defining increasingly effective strategies for mitigation and adaptation to climate change, safeguarding soil fertility and counteracting heat waves and floods is what is proposed by the European KNOWING project, funded by the Horizon Europe programme with over 6 million euros, in which 17 partners from 8 EU countries participate, including the ENEA research center, Federico II University and the Municipality of Naples for Italy. The capital of Campania will be one of the four international case studies in which the necessary interventions will be identified to face the risk of coastal flooding linked to rising sea levels and extreme weather events. The other 'laboratory' territories will be Tallinn (Estonia) for heat waves, Granollers (Spain) for river floods and the South Westphalian region (Germany) for soil fertility. Tests on the global transferability of the results achieved will also include the Vietnamese city of Ho Chi Min (the former Saigon). “ENEA will be in charge of elaborating high spatial resolution climate data to be used in further impact models such as hydrological and energy ones; thanks to our regional climate models we will be able to obtain and provide information on a continental scale, and gradually more detailed, on the atmospheric and oceanic variables relevant to the risks that we propose to analyze”, explains Giovanna Pisacane, ENEA researcher at the Modelling Climate Laboratory.
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