AtlantOS – Optimizing and Enhancing the Integrated Atlantic Ocean Observing System
To improve and innovate Atlantic Ocean observing, via a more systematic, cost effective and user-driven international integrated observing system.
AVENGERS: Attributing and Verifying European and National Greenhouse gas and aerosol Emissions and Reconciliation with Statistical bottomup estimates
The Attributing and Verifying European and National Greenhouse gas and aerosol Emissions and Reconciliation with Statistical bottomup estimates – AVENGERS consortium unites a diverse group of experts “to establish how top-down techniques can support the verification of national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and other regulated estimates of emissions and removals, in order to improve or supplement the methods/approaches currently used”.
AVOID 2 – The effects of incomplete and delayed participation on the cost of climate policy 2
AVOID 2 is the follow-up of the first AVOID project which took place from 2009 to 2013. The research project, funded by UK government, will provide scientifically-robust, policy-relevant answers to questions directly related to UNFCCC.
AVRICAP: Analysis of Vulnerabilities and Climatic Risks on the Infrastructures of the CAP Group
The project establishes a partnership between Fondazione CMCC and CAP Group, managing the Integrated Water Service (IWS) of the Metropolitan City of Milan, to support water resource management in a climate change context and identify adaptation strategies. The project is based on a co-design approach between CMCC and CAP, which is a key element in ensuring effective and adaptable solutions to the challenges posed by climate change on IWS. The co-design process allows for the development of innovative tools, based on advanced climate data and real operational needs, to enhance the resilience and sustainability of the metropolitan water system. This collaborative approach ensures that adaptation strategies are both scientifically grounded and practically implementable, effectively addressing the risks and vulnerabilities of the asset.
BASE – Bottom-up Climate Adaptation Strategies towards a Sustainable Europe
A project that aims to provide policy guidelines for climate adaptation by integrating lessons from past experiences, case studies, insights provided by modelling and stakeholder participation.
BELIEFS: Climate-related Beliefs and Low-Carbon Transition Dynamics
The transitioning to a low-carbon society, as mandated by the Paris Agreement and net-zero targets, requires substantial investments. These decisions rely heavily on firms’ expectations, yet significant knowledge gaps exist: current models can’t fully assess their impact, empirical data is limited, and there’s little understanding of what drives their evolution and how to align them with climate goals. Misaligned expectations risk failure or disorderly decarbonisation. The BELIEFS project will lay the foundations of a novel analytical framework capable of shedding light on the complex interaction between firms’ beliefs, investment decision-making and climate policy strategies, so as to identify credible paths to a netzero society. The project will deliver a methodological breakthrough by developing a dynamic transition model with a realistic representation of expectations as heterogeneous, evolving and interdependent. A large survey will provide the first comprehensive empirical assessment of transition expectations and their influence on decisions. The results of the project will be pivotal in identifying effective policy and institutional strategies to ensure alignment of beliefs, thereby enabling a swift and orderly decarbonisation process. Over the course of five years, BELIEFS aims to offer pioneering interdisciplinary contributions to advance our understanding of the macro-behavioural dimensions of low-carbon transitions, integrating elements from climate economics, transition theory, behavioural sciences and political economy.
bePrepARed: Preparing, Adapting, Reconstructing: actions to promote climate change adaptation and risk disaster resilience in Italian and Croatian sensitive ecosystems
In the framework of impacts related to climate change, water stock management is crucial to address and mitigate extreme phenomena that determine an overabundance or scarcity of water resources, with impacts on local production systems, citizens well-being and land management. To tackle this challenge, BePrePAred project aims to coordinate and integrate risk management tools, systems and policies aimed at improving the resilience of vulnerable ecosystems and landscapes historically man-managed on both sides of the Adriatic Sea, with a focus on water management. This is to create new high competence skills and practices for an ecosystem-based governance of water, transferring tools, system and policies in the Italy – Croatia targeted areas, adapting them to a sustainable use of water resources in rural-urban landscapes, raising awareness of institutions and civil society on the risks related to water scarcity and the need for water saving and adaptation policies.
BEZOS EARTH FUND project – Navigating Fiscal Challenges of the Clean Energy Transition
Navigating Fiscal Challenges of the Clean Energy Transition is a project funded by the BEZOS EARTH FUND. This project will be conducted as part of the Green Macroeconomic Modeling Initiative (GMMI) facilitated by the Bezos Earth Fund.
BID – Building an inclusive identity to fight inequality
The project studies economic and racial/ethnic inequality by analyzing the determinants of individuals’ willingness to redistribute in favor of disadvantaged people. Through a multi-disciplinary, quali-quantitative approach, the project will test the effectiveness of measure centered on the role of identity aimed at improving the attitude towards redistribution and, as such, at reducing inequality. The scope of the project embraces economic, psychological and sociological perspectives on the perception of economic and racial/ethnic inequality, and grounds on multifaceted approaches and literature about redistribution and identity.
BIOservicES: LINKING SOIL BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS AND SERVICES IN DIFFERENT LAND USES: FROM THE IDENTIFICATION OF DRIVERS, PRESSURES AND CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCE TO THEIR ECONOMIC VALUATION
The main objective of BIOservicES is to understand the interconnection between soil organisms and the delivery of multiple soil ecosystem functions and services at different scales (field vs landscape), identifying the pressures and drivers resulting from different land uses and climate change, and performing an economic valuation of the contribution of soil organisms to ecosystem services.
BlackSea Checkpoint
The EMODNET Black Sea checkpoint is a wide monitoring system assessment activity aiming to support the sustainable Blue Growth at the scale of the European Black Sea Basin by clarifying the observation landscape, evaluating the fitness for use of current observations and data assembly programs towards targeted applications (challenges) and prioritizing the needs to optimize monitoring systems in terms of availability, operational reliability, efficiency, time consistency, space consistency, etc. and observational priorities required in the future to meet the challenges.
Blue-Action – Arctic impact on weather and climate
The project is dedicated to the Arctic and the Northern Hemisphere to describe, model and predict the weather and climate of the regions and their teleconnections on seasonal to decadal time scales. This information will allow communities and businesses in Eurasia and North America to develop and plan their activities better.
Blue-Cloud 2026 | A federated European FAIR and Open Research Ecosystem for oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters
The Blue-Cloud 2026 project builds on the existing pilot Blue-Cloud project (Oct 2019 – Sep 2022) and it evolves its pilot Blue-Cloud ecosystem into a federated European Ecosystem to deliver FAIR and Open Data and analytical services instrumental for deepening research of oceans, the EU sea, coastal and inland waters. It develops a thematic marine extension to European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) for accessible web-based science, serving the needs of the EU Blue Economy, Marine Environment and Marine Knowledge agendas.
Blue4All – Blueprint demonstration for co-created effective, efficient and resilient networks of MPAs
There is an urgent need to strengthen marine conservation and restoration globally. One of the key measures to achieve this is to ensure that enough sea area is protected in effective ways. This requires designation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in different marine habitats. According to the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030, 30% of Europe’s sea and land areas should be under strict protection.
BlueAdapt: Reducing climate based health risks in blue environments: Adapting to the climate change impacts on coastal pathogens
BlueAdapt brings together an interdisciplinary team of biologists, climate scientists, economists, epidemiologists and public health experts to investigate and quantify the future health risks associated with selected coastal pathogens.
BlueAp – Bologna Local Urban Environment Adaptation Plan for Resilient City
BlueAp aims to provide the city of Bologna, a plan for adaptation to climate change, which also includes the testing of some concrete measures to be implemented at the local level, to make the city less vulnerable and able to act in case of floods , droughts and other impacts of climate change.
BlueGreen Governance
BlueGreen Governance is a project funded by HORIZON Europe Research and Innovation Actions in response to the call “Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal”. The project pursues an innovative approach to the governance of the seas and coastal areas that links marine policies with the management of the land and waters impacting on sea basins. More precisely, BlueGreen Governance will develop evidence-based pathways for the design and implementation of innovative governance schemes around the land-sea connection that incorporates both the scientific predictions of future developments (about the biodiversity-water-climate nexus) and societal views on the most viable policy responses.
BlueHealth – Linking Up Environment, Health and Climate for Inter-sector Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in a Rapidly Changing Environment
The BlueHealth Consortium brings together a multi-disciplinary team of experts reaching across all 28 European Union countries. The proposed 4.5-year BlueHealth Project takes an international, interdisciplinary and multisector approach to health promotion and disease prevention by investigating the relationship between the EU’s ‘blue infrastructure’ and the health and well-being of its citizens.
BOOSTER BLUE – Economic Instruments for Sustainable Water Management and Resilient Growth in Water Stressed Areas
BOOSTER BLUE aims at advancing in the design and development of water markets and drought insurance systems that contribute to the implementation of an effective and efficient water policy mix in Mediterranean climate zones in the EU.
BRIDGE – SustainaBle uRban plannIng Decision support accountinG for urban mEtabolism
The project focuses on the understanding of patterns of energy and material flows through the urban community’s economy to provide a systemic reading of the present situation for goal and objective setting and development of indicators for sustainability.
C-BLUES: Carbon sequestration in BLUe EcoSystems
C-BLUES will significantly advance knowledge and understanding of blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs) seagrasses, tidal marshes, mangroves, macroalgae, and macroalgae mariculture aiming to achieve three overarching objectives: 1) develop new scientific knowledge within BCEs to reduce scientific uncertainty and improve reporting of blue carbon under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 2) provide input to a possible revision of the 2013 IPCC Wetlands Supplement to increase inclusion of coastal wetlands in national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and reporting, 3) raise awareness and promote the role of blue carbon for delivering global climate policy commitments in collaboration with Chinese and other international partners.
C3-Alps – Capitalizing Climate Change Knowledge for Adaptation in the Alpine Space
C3-Alps is a transnational capitalisation project co-funded by the Alpine Space programme that seeks to synthesize, transfer, and implement in policy and practice the best available adaptation to climate change knowledge in the Alps.
C3S – Seasonal Forecasts
The project is devoted to the development and implementation of a pre-operational, multi-model seasonal prediction system based on the prediction systems provided by five European centers (ECMWF, MetOffice, Meteo-France, CMCC e DWD) at the forefront of the operational seasonal forecasting field.
C3S_34c – Prototype Service for decadal climate predictions
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) currently includes operational predictions for seasonal timescales, as well as infrastructure for accessing climate projections for centennial timescales. In this project prototype services for climate predictions targeting the time horizon of years to decades ahead will be developed. The goal is to develop precursors for decadal prediction services targeting the time horizon when climate variability and anthropogenic climate change are expected to have comparable magnitude, and thus both need to be carefully considered and combined in creating outlooks of relevance to users. The work in this tender will demonstrate capability and applicability of predictive information on such timescales and complement related activities underway in the research community. Each partner, DWD (Germany), BSC (Spain), UKMO (United Kingdom) and CMCC (Italy), will work on a different climate service tailored to the needs of a specific stakeholder, thus covering four different sectors, respectively: infrastructure, agriculture, insurance and the energy sector. In particular, CMCC collaborates with ENEL Hydropower to develop a prototype service based on multi-model decadal predictions.