The Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) warmly welcomes the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) as a new partner in green growth knowledge.
The CMCC is a non-profit research institution established in 2005 in the context of Italy’s National Research Programme. CMCC’s mission is to investigate and model our climate system and its interactions with society to provide reliable, rigorous, and timely scientific results to stimulate sustainable growth, protect the environment, and to develop science driven adaptation and mitigation policies in a changing climate.
CCMC was recognized as a leading centre for climate research in the University of Pennsylvania’s 2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report, ranking among the Top 100 non-American institutions. CMCC is also a member of the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate responsibility initiative.
Since 2006, CMCC has hosted the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Focal Point for Italy, which facilitates exchange between the IPCC, the scientific community and the public. Several of CMCC’s most prominent researchers are involved in the drafting of IPCC Assessment Reports.
CMCC’s research activities are broken down into eight research divisions (listed here below). The Economic analysis of Climate Impacts and Policy division focuses on economic valuation of climate impacts and the design of appropriate policies for climate change mitigation and adaptation that contribute to a shift towards a greener economy.
- ASC - Advanced Scientific Computing;
- CSP - Climate Simulations and Predictions;
- ECIP – Economic analysis of Climate Impacts and Policy;
- IAFES - Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services;
- ODA – Ocean modeling and Data Assimilation;
- OPA – Ocean Predictions and Applications;
- RAAS - Risk Assessment and Adaptation Strategies;
- REMHI – Regional Models and Hydrogeological Impacts.
CMCC benefits from the extensive research experience of the Foundation’s seven members: Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV); the University of Salento; the Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA S.c.p.a); the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; the University of Tuscia; the University of Sassari, and Politecnico di Milano.
