The challenge of climate change in the city

Alessio Valente

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Climate change is a global phenomenon that is already affecting our cities, sometimes causing disastrous consequences. Beyond personal considerations on the causes of what is happening, in this editorial, I believe that to understand what is happening about climatic conditions of our planet it is necessary to rely on scientific thinking. More precisely, I will consider the recent IPPC report which took into account over 6000 scientific articles of the last few years. This report highlights above all “the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C compared to the levels of the pre-industrial period and the related greenhouse gas emission paths, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, to sustainable development, and efforts to defeat poverty” (IPPC, 2018)...


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12896/cse201800100120

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CSE Journal - City Safety Energy is a semiannual journal (Two ISSUES per Year) published by Le Penseur in Brienza (PZ) - Italy | ISSN print edition 2283-8767 | ISSN online edition 2284-3418 - Journal registerd at the Court of Potenza (Italy) n. 219/2014