Decarbonisation pathways for local authorities, citizen and businesses
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The scale of climate planning might interfere with properly implementing the planned mitigation and adaptation measures
Map of the European NUTS3 regions coincident with Local Administration Units with Climate Plan (Green) and No Climate Plan (Red). Source: Martínez Görbig (2022), based on data from Eurostat, Covenant of Mayors, Carbon Disclosure Project, and websites from the regional...
T6 Ecosystems is responsable for the impact assessment and maximisation activities in the IMPETUS project
T6 Ecosystems - project partner of LOCALISED - is pleased to participate to IMPETUS, a new Horizon Europe project that will support and give recognition to citizen science (CS) in Europe. The partner will be responsable for the impact assessment and maximisation...
Agile Software Development in LOCALISED
LOCALISED focuses on the downscaling of country-level decarbonization pathways to a regional level. From a research point of view, this compels a literature review of existing downscaling methods, experimentation, and an analysis of the results. Furthermore, the...
The importance of power grid resilience. How to address it through decarbonisation.
The negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are innumerable, be they health, economic, technological, or social. However, once much of the storm has already passed, we can learn and improve our society from it. Using this idea as a starting point, the...
Provisional framework for business vulnerability assessment to decarbonization pathways
Inspired by the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Assessment Reports (IPCC AR5 and AR6), LOCALISED developed its business vulnerability assessment framework to reflect the latest knowledge in the field of climate change risk assessment. Using the IPCC...
First national decarbonization pathways ready to develop and testing the downscalling approach
LOCALISED achieved an important milestone with the simulation of three country-level decarbonization pathways - see Costa (2022). The results will now feed into developing and testing our downscaling methodology. Using the EUCalculator model the demand for services,...
The partner MAGGS promotes Educational campaign and green & blue investments in schools
Educational campaign and green & blue investments in schools. “Climate in the Schools of Metropolis” is the biggest educational project carried out in the Metropolitan Area Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot regions (MAGGS), project partner of LOCALISED. As many as 40 schools...
IEA UsersTCP: Gender & Energy
Empowering all: Gender in policy and implementation for achieving transitions to sustainable energy When it comes to energy infrastructures and energy use, the role of gender has been highly underestimated. Despite the evidence that social values, norms, and practices...
The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its relevance for LOCALISED
IPCC has underlined the relevance of the LOCALISED objectives, which is to develop useful tools for a decarbonisation of the European regions and localities until 2050 and the remaining adaptation need.
GridWatch – A disruptive tool to identify potential climate risks threatening the electrical grid.
One of the main objectives that the IREC’s Power System group has detected is the mitigation of potential climate risks while increasing the grid resilience and preparedness against disruptive events