Here, the implementation plan for JLL (Jerusalem Living Lab) of the eight Living Lab in the project, is presented. Recently, extensive research was performed related to global warming potential risks and their effects on rainfall and temperature over the East Mediterranean. Several major risks were pointed out including extreme temperatures, heat waves, colder nights, and floods. Our first super-high-resolution global climate model projections projected that the ancient “Fertile Crescent” considered as the cradle of civilization, will nearly disappear by the year 2100 (Kitoh et al. 2008). Also, Jerusalem temperatures both maximum and minimum, show that significant increases occurred during 1950-2020 (homogenized dataset, Yosef et al., 2019). A fact that led to definition of the Mediterranean as a “Hot Spot” of global warming.
The I-CHANGE (Individual Change of HAbits Needed for Green European transition, 2021-2025) project promotes the active participation of citizens to address climate change. It engages citizens and local stakeholders to take part in science initiatives and support more sustainable behaviour. To this aim, a set of Living Labs located in very different eight cities of socio-economic contexts (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bologna, Dublin, Genova, Hasselt, Jerusalem and Ouagadougou), were chosen. The I-CHANGE Living Labs address different environmental issues comprising: (i) extreme events, mainly focusing on heavy rainfall, and heat waves, (ii) air pollution & linkages with sustainable transport, (iii) the water cycle and (iv) Waste Management.
I-CHANGE is funded by EU Horizon 2020 grant 101037193.
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