Guidelines and Good Practices for adapting to climate changes in Italian Universities

Target Groups

Italian Universities

Organizations

RUS (Rete delle Università per lo Sviluppo sostenibile)

Description

This report, written in italian and directed to italian universities, was created by the RUS (a network of Italian universities dealing with sustainable development issues). The report discusses methodological aspects, such as the notion of climate profile toghether with its time series and regional projections as well as vulnerabilities, risks and resilience tied to the problem of climate change toghether with the topic of adaptation policy governance.and integration with regional plans. Moreover, the report also discusses specific issues, such as heat waves and extreme weather events, providing related strategies and best practices, as well as examples and references of good adaptation practices.

Scope

This report aims to both provide universities with guidelines for the drafting of Climate Change Adaptation Plans for universities that wish to address this issue in a structured manner, and to provide some good practices on this topic, derived from the experience of national and international universities, that can be quickly implemented in universities.
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