Project description
Improving climate action organisation in the Mediterranean region
After extensive efforts by the EU and other organisations, several nature-based solutions and startups have been diligently working to integrate greener solutions, reduce emissions and pollution and more. However, the lack of communication and organisation among these actors can result in confusion, errors and even a shortage of investment in promising solutions. The EU-funded CARDIMED project aims to establish a framework and network for enhancing climate resilience in the Mediterranean biogeographical region, bringing together disparate efforts and solutions. It will establish an extensive digital infrastructure for enhanced data collection, evaluation and access, and the implementation of holistic modelling tools such as water-energy-food-ecosystems to enhance organisation and efficiency.
Objective
CARDIMED will introduce a framework to build Climate Resilience in the Mediterranean biogeographical region, efficiently unifying individual efforts of regions and communities across different countries and continents. This will be achieved by deploying the digital infrastructure to harmonise the data collection and evaluation processes, providing open data to all the actors involved in the Nature-based Solutions (NBS) value chain and integrating crucial functions for Climate Resilience. Among these functions, smart digital tools for citizen participation and capacity building will supplement an ambitious multi-stakeholder engagement strategy, focused on knowledge translation and impact pathways. Furthermore, holistic modelling tools introducing the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus approach will provide comprehensive knowledge on the complex NBS interfaces, that will decisively contribute to addressing socio-ecological challenges, along with issues of valuation and low-investment rate in NBS. These actions will be implemented across 9 demonstration sites, composed of 10 regions, 20 locations and 28 communities and comprising 47 NBS that directly relate to 83 interventions and supporting units that tackle climate change and circularity challenges. The consolidation of the demonstrating regions and communities will establish the CARDIMED Resilience Alliance, that will function as the vehicle for expanding the network via upscaling the existing sites and adding new ones. The project includes 5 transferability cases, as well as an additional 10 that will be defined during the implementation. Through these actions, the CARDIMED Resilience Alliance will achieve at least 28 regions and 70 communities by 2030, will create 8000 jobs especially in the NBS sector, and will leverage over 450 M€ in climate investment.
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106 82 ATHINA
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3584 CS Utrecht
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29001 Malaga
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341 00 HALKIDA
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08940 CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT BARCELONA
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28037 Madrid
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79098 Freiburg Im Breisgau
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08193 Bellaterra
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1140 Wien
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118 54 ATHENS
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41126 Modena
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30500 Molina De Segura
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106 74 ATHINA
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43100 Karditsa
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811 32 LESVOS
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851 31 RODOS
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115 27 ATHINA
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50018 Zaragoza
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35131 Lamia
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415 00 LARISSA
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60121 Ancona
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40126 Bologna
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50121 Firenze
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95131 Catania
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95100 Catania
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90129 Palermo
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97100 Ragusa Rg
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06902 SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS VALBONNE
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13284 Marseille
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13481 Marseille
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50018 Zaragoza
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08500 Vic Barcelona
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50071 Zaragoza
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7000 803 Evora
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7000 673 EVORA
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2322 Nicosia
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1015 Nicosia
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1500 Lefkosia
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35430 İzmir
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35280 İzmir
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35251 İzmir
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35460 İzmir
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35250 İzmir
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QRM 3104 Qormi
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9020 Klagenfurt Am Woerthersee
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28053 Madrid
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30004 Murcia
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30008 Murcia
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52220 Labin
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UB8 3PH Uxbridge
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