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Urban research at BC3: How climate change science can support urban policy making
Keywords: Urban areas, Urban climate policy, Science - policy interface
Author(s): Marta Olazabal, Elisa Sainz de Murieta, Sébastien Foudi, Aline Chiabai, Ibon Galarraga, Stefano Balbi, Leif Vogel, Maria Victoria Román and Anil Markandya
Date: 2016-05-08
Issue: 2016-04
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-Cities are becoming key actors to successfully achieve climate change mitigation and adaptation objectives. .
-Science can play a crucial role in supporting local decision-makers by providing top level information and applying or developing ad-hoc methodologies .
-The case studies presented here show that there are many opportunities for science-policy collaboration at the city level .
-The urban scale allows a higher visibility of this collaboration and can contribute to strengthening this link at different scales .