Matteo Micheli

🙌welcome to read our #LatestPaper🙌 #Assessment and #Monitoring of Local #Climate Regulation in #Cities by #Green Infrastructure—A National #Ecosystem Service Indicator for Germany 👉https://lnkd.in/gnpuegXF

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📢 New collaboration with the UNFCCC PCCB Network We are thrilled to announce that ClimLaw: Graz is now a proud member of the UN Climate Change Paris Committee on Capacity-building (PCCB) Network. 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 This esteemed network is an association dedicated to promoting climate-related capacity-building worldwide, fostering global collaboration, and driving impactful climate action. 🌍🌿 ➡️ The PCCB Network aligns with our work areas, including enhancing coherence and coordination in capacity-building efforts for climate action, identifying capacity gaps and needs, and raising awareness on climate change-related capacity-building. We are particularly excited about the opportunities for technical exchanges, peer learning activities, and the ability to connect with other members through the UNFCCC Capacity-building groups and events. Being a part of the PCCB Network is a great honour for us. It not only validates the work we have been doing at ClimLaw: Graz but also opens up new avenues for collaboration and impact. We look forward to contributing to the network and working closely with all members to build a stronger, more resilient future together. 👏🏽🙏🏽🌿 Here's to new beginnings and exciting collaborations! 🌿🥳 More information about the PCCB Network can be found at: https://lnkd.in/dr6TShP. #ClimLawGraz #PCCBNetwork #ClimateAction #CapacityBuilding

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This week's #ClimateDictionary term is 'Long-term Strategies'. Under the Paris Agreement, countries are invited to communicate long-term strategies (LTS) for emissions reductions that envision a whole-of-society transformation over several decades, usually up to2050. LTS documents align to the long-term objectives of limiting global warming and achieving net-zero by 2050. Long-term strategies provide a long-term vision that gives coherence and direction to shorter-term national climate pledges like the NDCs. They guide countries to pursue low-carbon development and prevent fossil fuel-intensive investments, demonstrating the socio-economic benefits of the green transition. They boost innovation and can help drive investment in low-carbon solutions and sustainable infrastructure. And they help facilitate and promote just and equitable transitions for the people who are most affected, making sure that climate solutions are fair and inclusive. When countries officially communicate their LTS to the UNFCCC it is called a Long-Term Low Emission Development Strategy (LT-LEDS). Discover more at: https://lnkd.in/exf8sfJs

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Better to #adapt to the consequences than tackle the causes of global warming? "Instead of prioritising climate protection, we should instead focus on adapting to the consequences of climate change" - a narrow majority of respondents in our survey agrees with this statement. The current #flooding in southern Germany, for example, makes this assessment very comprehensible. We can no longer avoid adapting to the consequences of #climatechange. And this will become even more important the hotter it gets. But here, too, it is important to do one thing without neglecting the other. In order to mitigate the risks of global warming and thus keep the costs of adaptation in check, measures to contain the rise in temperature are just as important. Because every fragment matters. This is emphasised by the high level of fear among our respondents of an increase in extreme weather events as a result of climate change. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung https://lnkd.in/dt2GYE9t

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New Oxford Institute for Energy Studies paper looks at Reforming Capacity Markets and How to Incorporate the Flexibility of Residential Consumers 👉 Link to OIES Paper: https://lnkd.in/dQDGNjUD Key points: 💠 Instead of building new generation capacity to ensure resource adequacy, demand response resources can lower residential consumption for financial compensation at times of generation scarcity 💠 Residential demand response can greatly favour the system but its uptake is quite low since residential consumers tend to withdraw from demand response programs if the inconvenience of participating becomes too high 💠 Paper proposes a simple, nonintrusive and cost-efficient methods for residential demand participation in capacity markets through priority pricing contracts 💠  Priority pricing contracts could be integrated via an aggregator as explicit demand response in capacity markets, advocating for participation on the ‘demand’ side rather than the ‘supply’ side to prevent market distortion and better align with consumer reliability preferences 💠 Aggregators are responsible for the imbalances between the flexible consumer’s forecast and actual consumption instead of energy suppliers to avoid retail market distortions #aggregators #demandflexibility #electricitymarkets #

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🌍 European Commission Launches Destination Earth Initiative... The European Commission has unveiled its "Destination Earth" initiative, a digital twin of our planet. This ambitious project aims to create a virtual replica of Earth to monitor and predict climate changes and natural disasters using advanced supercomputing resources. Key Highlights: 🔹Utilizes EuroHPC and LUMI supercomputers. 🔹Integrates data from Copernicus, ECMWF, and ESA. 🔹$315 million investment, with completion by 2030. 🔹Launched by Finnish Minister Arto Satonen and EU VP Margrethe Vestager. How do you see digital twins impacting environmental management and policy making? Read more 👇 https://lnkd.in/eHaXmzwR #DigitalTwins #ClimateChange #EuropeanCommission #DestinationEarth #Innovation

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BREAKING NEWS - Privately-owned firms unprepared for incoming climate regulation Today on #EarthDay, new analysis from the Net Zero Tracker finds that nearly half of the world’s 100 largest private firms have not set any emissions reduction targets, leaving some exposed to incoming EU climate regulations - the #CSRD and #CSDDD. Our latest analysis, ‘A Distinctly Private Pursuit: Not going net zero’ compares the readiness of major companies for incoming climate regulation. It shows a widening gap between the climate targets of the world’s largest 100 private companies, compared with their publicly-listed equivalents - creating an ‘unlevel playing field’ for companies, investors and policymakers alike. Despite a recent flurry of climate regulation , designed to stimulate ‘whole economy’ decarbonisation, this analysis shows that some companies based in the EU such as E.Leclerc, and Mercadona, have still made no commitments to mitigate emissions. Camilla Hyslop, Data Lead at Net Zero Tracker, said: “Most private companies are swimming against the net zero tide, while most listed firms are lengthening their stroke in the opposite direction, towards a clean, prosperous future. “The alarming reality that almost half of the largest 100 private companies, whose revenues make them ‘too big to fail’, have opted out of setting any climate targets, leaves both their home countries and global supply chains exposed to serious transition risk.” See below to find out more: https://lnkd.in/eyQp-XHE

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The #BonnClimateConference, one of the most significant yearly held conferences, is kicking off in a week. This year it's taking place throughout June 3-13, organized by UNFCCC to set a path for environmental action and policy. Being the preamble to COP, it lays the foundations for the topics that are discussed at #COP29 and other significant environmental conferences. One of Arboretica’s main projects is providing analyses on what shapes the present industry and world dynamics surrounding #climatechange and #climateaction, which includes both the Bonn and COP conferences. You can check out our previous findings here: https://lnkd.in/gY7yPT6r Take a look at this year's Bonn conference at https://unfccc.int/sb60

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European Space Agency - ESA is hosting the Earth Solar Reflected Radiation Budget - TRUTHS for Climate Workshop in June 2024. Supported by CEOS WGCV, the workshop outcomes will contribute to the TRUTHS mission development plan and to the strategy to meet and serve the user communities. The workshop will combine plenary talks, posters and topical round tables, where additional material can interactively be displayed in support to the discussions. The objectives of the workshop are to: - Further develop and prepare the TRUTHS user communities; - Inform the community on project status and products; - Present latest practices and identify needs in Climate modelling and applications which TRUTHS’ unique observational capabilities can fulfil, directly with its measurements and indirectly by anchoring other missions delivering ECV-products; - Discuss intercalibration strategies and priorities to harmonise fundamental and thematic climate data records;  - Consolidate a holistic views of research areas and tools needed to maximise TRUTHS data benefits for Climate from Day-1; - Provide recommendations on the TRUTHS scientific preparation and on practical products access. More information: https://lnkd.in/gxkpZ9zh

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#Climateaction remains number one priority for Euro mayors - The second annual Eurocities Pulse Mayors Survey collected results from 92 mayors in 28 European countries, unveiling major trends, challenges and priorities #energy #climatechange #governance #environment https://lnkd.in/e-ggwX4Y

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👋 Welcome to the LinkedIn profile of the #InterregEuroMED project BLUE ECOSYSTEM, under the Innovative Sustainable Economy Mission of the Programme But... what do we do?👀 - Testing innovative methodologies to support territory decision-making processes through knowledge production in the blue sustainable economy field 🌊 - Considering the needs of the quintuple helix stakeholders to enhance innovation and research capacities through a transformative and territorial co-creation approach 🙍‍♂️ - Setting regional accelerator laboratories 💥 - Identifying transnational challenges and opportunities for the solution acceleration 🕶 🧡 Like this post if you want to learn more about these concepts, the partnership and the activities.

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🌿 Interested in the characteristics and drivers of rural energy poverty across the EU, or the energy efficiency barriers faced by vulnerable populations in sparsely populated regions? 🗂️ Check out our 3 factsheets summarising the update of the #energypoverty and #energyefficiency framework in rural areas across the EU! Here is what you can find on Energy Poverty and Energy Efficiency in Rural Areas: 💡 Desk Research Findings 💡 Stakeholder Survey Findings 💡 Regional Results 👉 Access the #RENOVERTY factsheets and full report here: https://lnkd.in/ebHH6fkG Institute for European Energy and Climate Policy Foundation (IEECP) Climate Alliance TEESlab - Technoeconomics of Energy Systems laboratory Focus, društvo za sonaraven razvoj / Focus Association for Sustainable Development European LEADER Association for Rural Development - ELARD ISR-UC UC Aisfor srl North West Croatia Regional Energy and Climate Agency (REGEA) Ecoserveis Cultura Energètica LIFE Programme CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency European Commission #LifeAmplifiers

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💬 "Air quality monitoring is often highly technical, poorly communicated and limited to academic or specialist audiences. But wearables can bring the problem of air pollution to life by telling human-led stories of personal exposure" Wearable sensors equip grassroots organisations with data on their local air pollution to campaign on their own terms. From supporting community-driven initiatives to advancing air quality monitoring and evidence-informed advocacy, Olivia Sweeney, Senior Specialist - Data at Clean Air Fund, highlights learning for philanthropic funders 👉 https://bit.ly/3wzxuP2 UrbanBetter HabitatMap GAIA (Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives) #AirQuality #AirPollution

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TERENO - Expectations more than fulfilled TERENO was founded over 15 years ago - the most comprehensive research project to investigate the long-term regional impacts of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems and their socio-economic consequences in Germany. In an article for the open access journal “Earth's Future”, 36 scientists from the #TERENO network have summarized the most important findings of the initiative. Closing a gap, giving a new impetus - the advance praise was not small when the TERENO initiative was launched at the end of 2008. In fact, TERENO was something new: the largest project in Germany to record the regional consequences of #climatechange. The Helmholtz centers involved not only brought together a broad spectrum of disciplines: together, they established a Germany-wide network of #observatories that were extensively equipped with measuring instruments. “TERENO is now a key pillar for environmental modeling and forecasting in Germany and serves as an information hub for practitioners and policy stakeholders in agriculture, forestry, and water management at regional to national levels,” states Prof. Harry Vereecken from #IBG3, Forschungszentrum Jülich. “Only with such systems the data can be collected which is necessary to distinguish long-term trends from short-term fluctuations and develop appropriate adaptation measures,” emphasizes Dr. Theresa Blume from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ. However, planning, construction and operation require considerable effort - both in terms of resources and funding, which the participating centers largely raise themselves. Other important findings: in order to adapt to changing research requirements and ensure long-term data collection, a research infrastructure must be designed flexibly. The necessary interdisciplinarity does not arise by itself either. "The culture of institutions is crucial. There must be a willingness to deal with the different views and requirements of the various scientific disciplines and also the user communities and ultimately to make compromises, for example with regard to locations or measurement methods. In TERENO, this has been achieved in an exemplary manner,” says Prof. Peter Dietrich from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ). "All this shows that such integrated environmental monitoring programs must be continued in the future,” adds Prof. Hans Peter Schmid from the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). Find out more about the success story of TERENO: https://lnkd.in/gBA-6HaA #agrosphere #soilscience Heye Bogena, Sander Huisman, Thomas Puetz, Jannis Groh

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🔔 🔎 Check out NEW CAKE #LIFEVIIEW2050 analysis: "Exploring synergies between #EUETS & other EU #climatepolicy measures -#CarbonRemoval, #hydrogen & sectoral #transport policy”: ➡ Full report: https://lnkd.in/dgARhEBQ ➡ Summary & Policy Recommendations: https://lnkd.in/dzGyYbwf 🎯 The main goal of this analysis is the identification of current and potential future instruments which could affect the functioning of the EU ETS and non-ETS sectors post 2030. 🌍 We are focusing on the following key areas: ❇ role and use of #Carbon Dioxide #Removal (#CDR), ❇green #hydrogen subsidies, ❇additional measures to decarbonise #transport.   In this analysis we examine the impact of above elements on the: ✴ #CO2 prices in the #EUETS, #ETS2 and the rest of non-ETS, ✴ macroeconomic outcomes (GDP & consumption), ✴ sectoral indicators (e.g. #agricultural production, energy mix, transport emissions). 💡 Here are our policy recommendations: 1️⃣ Revised Targets: Update climate goals for flexibility, considering tech advancements like e-fuels & #DACCS. 2️⃣ Boost Carbon Removals: Prioritize #BECCS, #afforestation for #netzero #emissions. 3️⃣ Expand EU ETS for Other Sectors: Extend ETS to more sectors, mitigating socio-economic impacts. 4️⃣ Establish ECCB: Create a European Carbon Central Bank for market stability & policy alignment. 5️⃣ Support Green Hydrogen: Invest in production, ensuring economic stability. 6️⃣ Balanced Transport Policies: Mix subsidies, standards for emission reduction in transport. 7️⃣ Careful Design of #GHG Removal Subsidies in Agriculture: Support sustainable practices, respecting regional differences. 8️⃣ Market Stabilization Measures for Agriculture: Protect farmers, explore innovative market mechanisms. 9️⃣ Comprehensive Dialogue and Stakeholder Engagement: Foster inclusive dialogue for effective, fair policies. #LIFEVIIEW2050 #LIFEProgramme #NFOŚiGW The National Centre for Emissions Management (KOBiZE) Centrum Analiz Klimatyczno-Energetycznych (CAKE) / Centre for Climate and Energy Analysis #KOBIZE #IOŚPIB #climatepolicy #climate #energy #LIFEProjects #LIFEProgramme #EUETS #carbonprice #carbonpricing #climatepolicy LIFE Programme #LIFEProjects Maciej Pyrka, Robert Jeszke, Jakub Boratyński, Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks, Marek A., Igor Tatarewicz, Wojciech Rabiega, Adam Wąs, Michał Lewarski, Sławomir Skwierz, Phd, Marta Rosłaniec, Sebastian Lizak, Izabela Zborowska, Marzena Chodor, Paweł Kobus, Maciej Cygler, Artur Gorzałczyński, Aneta Tylka, Izabela Lewarska, Paweł Mzyk, Monika Sekuła, Antonio Soria, Karsten Neuhoff, Artur Runge-Metzger, Simone Borghesi, Stefano F. Verde, Wojciech Burkiewicz, Jos Delbeke

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Ready to accelerate climate solutions? 🌍 Check out the Call for Applications for Climate Accelerator 2024 by EIT Climate-KIC and join the movement towards a sustainable future! Apply now: [Link] #ClimateAction #ClimAccelerator2024 #SustainableFuture

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Are you committed to #ClimateAction? We’re excited to share that Technopolis Germany🇩🇪 has contributed to the Review Report of the German Greenhouse Gas Emissions for the Year 2023 by the Council of Experts on Climate Change. What does the report conclude? Here are a few key points: ➡️Transport falls well short, exceedance in the buildings sector not clear after review ➡️The decline in production in the energy-intensive industry, the most important factor for emission reductions ➡️Climate Action Programme, Immediate Action Programmes 2023: Less funding, weakened implementation … Find out more! 👉 https://lnkd.in/d3zzQhvg Heimer Thomas, Jan Stede, Theresa I., Bruno Luis Nemec

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New project maps climate risks in Europe! In March, the European Environment Agency (EEA) released the report "European Climate Risk Assessment (EUCRA)," which describes the risks Europe faces due to climate change. Senior Researcher Martin Drews of DTU Management is an expert on the project's advisory board. The report aims to assess the current situation and what measures the EU should take to mitigate potential disasters - both in the short and long term. As Martin points out: “There are certain climate events that we may not be seeing in Denmark right now, but that will affect us in the future – and we are not yet fully aware of their risk, let alone adequately prepared to meet them.” For this reason, the report maps some of the potential chain reactions and catastrophic consequences that can be triggered by extreme weather and climate events. EUCRA also sheds light on the EU's "readiness" to deal with these challenges practically and politically and offers a perspective on who should take ownership of the challenges. It is the first time that a risk analysis with such a high level of detail has been developed for Europe. While the report can feel somewhat dire to read, Martin, who has previously participated in similar projects on behalf of both the EU and IPCC, maintains an overall optimistic belief that this report can- and will make a difference, particularly serving as a tool for political decision-making in the future. If you are interested, you can read more about the report here:  https://lnkd.in/d-nzkgrv

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Everybody knows about #climatechange adaptation strategies, but what is behind their elaboration? How do we know they are optimised for the climate impacts of the coming decades? This is very important to fight climate change, and several EU-funded projects are working on it, and so we are: Today in Gdansk, Poland, the #distendereu project partners have our 2nd annual meeting to discuss how to validate climate change strategies.

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