WEBSITE The NATURED Project Offers Nature-based Solutions for the ADRION Region Facing Climate Change Crisis. In response to this pressing challenge, NATURED aims to empower policymakers and stakeholders to prevent the effects of climate change on urban areas, particularly flash floods, and urban heat islands. The project seeks to promote a just, safe, and inclusive resilience approach, prioritizing the most vulnerable groups, such as those living near rivers and those affected by heat waves. By embracing NbS, NATURED aims to create a more resilient and sustainable future for the ADRION region, leaving no one behind in the face of the climate crisis. The objective is enabling policymakers to prevent the effects of climate change on different zones of urban areas, especially of flash floods and heat urban islands, by adopting Nature-based Solutions of adaptation which the most vulnerable groups -those living near the rivers and more exposed to flooding; those affected by heat waves- will be the main beneficiaries. The NbS to enhance climate change adaptation/resilience to climate change can ensure more durable, sustainable, and socially inclusive responses to the tremendous challenges of effects of global warming in the IPA-ADRION cities and regions, where the temperatures are rising more quickly than the worldwide average. There are 11 pilot actions and sites, jointly designed through mutual learning, exchange and review between PPs, for improved resilience to climate change in cities, according to their main vulnerabilities: – Faenza: floodings. – Nova Gorica, Gostivar, Nis, Zrenjamin, Split, Tirana, Cetinje, Larissa, Sarajevo, Banja Luka: temperature increase /altered precipitation patterns, with risks for health, eco-systems, and biodiversity, forest fire, water resources, agriculture. 1 joint cross-border strategy will be developed to transform the identified NbS into viable solutions to address the effects of climate change, and 1 action plan for each city involved to incorporate the identified NbS into urban plans, before concretizing them into pilot actions. The change expected is a sort of cultural revolution in the approach to city development, up to now, based only on “grey infrastructures” requiring soil consumption and uncontrolled exploitation of raw materials. Also, the cooperation between 15 organizations in the IPA-ADRIATIC region to find common NbS in facing the consequences of climate change in their cities is expected to bring significant positive changes and benefits:
Nature-based Solutions for the ADRION Region
NATURED – 2024-2026
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