Climate Research Foundation Team
FIClima is supplying detailed and tailored climate, seasonal, and weather forecast data for every pilot site. In a strategic way, for long-term decisions, the participation process prior to the definition of the NBS must be evaluated with climate information, taking into account the vulnerability of each city to climate change and evaluating the best solutions. Once the participation process finds the best measures, a second iteration with climate data and applied indices will validate the NBS in the digital twin environment. As climate change is currently taking place, it is necessary to monitor identified long-term risks and vulnerabilities in the short term, for which FIClima provides weather and seasonal forecasts through co-designed weather variables and specific indices in order to prevent cities from suffering the consequences of extreme weather events. Such a huge and ambitious project as Urbreath needed quality and tailored climate and weather information for the project cities NBS development. This kind of information is usually not actually tailored and is provided with not enough resolution or a lack of uncertainty assessment and Ficlima is an expert in this field, avoiding these issues. Contributing to a long-term preservation of the URBREATH improvements is the main goal of FIClima.
Urbreath is an opportunity to implement succesfully NBS in several cities across Eiurope. Besides, fighting against climate change in this way, using best NBS thorugh a methodology which combines co-design processes with high level technologies development like digital twins is a promising stronghold that let the project has encouraging replication opportunities in other cities around the world. Participating in this strong consortium is, for ficlima, an opportunity to have a profitable exchange of experiences with other organizations that share with us the climate change adaptation objective. Aditionally, we are really excited to implement as a first time our data to feed a digital twins system.
Contributing to climate change mitigation is crucial. These last few years, we are experiencing accelerated global warming, and now working to reach neutrality as soon as possible is even a duty with regards to our future. The Urbreath project is aimed at contributing to CO2 neutrality; in fact, it is one of its main objectives, but this project is intended to go further. NBS have been defined in a synergistic way, being able to actively contribute to CO2 sequestration while effectively adapting the city against the extreme weather events that climate change is causing to become more frequent. Urbreath's methodologies aim for these kinds of synergies and, of course, for the NBSs themselves to be optimized, tailored to the peculiarities of each location, and to remain effective in the long term, taking into account the state of the art of future climate projections.