Bologna

Italy

Mission city Pilot city
Italy National Platform
Bologna Mission City Label
Population 393k
City Area 141 km²
City active since June 2022

The path of the Municipality of Bologna in the implementation of policies aimed at combating climate change, consistent with European, national and regional strategies, had already been started in the 90s with the first Municipal Energy Plan, followed by its updating over the years 2000.

 

With the Municipal Energy Program (PEC) of 2007, Bologna made the first concrete commitment to reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere by 6.5% compared to 1990 and therefore locally achieve the objective that Italy had set at national level, for joining the Kyoto Protocol.

 

The Municipality has undertaken this path for mitigation and adaptation also because citizens have a clear awareness of the climate changes underway, which locally manifest themselves with an increase in average temperatures, with stronger anomalies during the summer period (as well as an increase of the duration of heat waves and tropical summer nights), the extension of periods of absence of rain and the increase in the frequency of days with intense precipitation; for this reason the city has been working for some time on all sectors to improve the different forms of land management and transformation in terms of environmental and climate balances (emissions, albedo, phytomass, urban drainage, etc.)

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