As cidades são centros de atividades humanas e por isso responsáveis por um elevado consumo de recursos naturais, criando uma forte dependência de fontes locais e externas e exercendo pressão sobre sistemas naturais. Esta dependência pode comprometer a resiliência e o aprovisionamento sustentável de serviços urbanos, como transportes, alimentação, climatização de edifícios e consumo de água. Este policy brief a...
Urban areas are major consumers of water, energy, and food (WEF). In 2015, Cascais municipality's water, energy, and food imports dependence was 68%, 86.6%, and 85.9%, respectively. This high dependence on external resources induces indirect WEF system pressure and poses risk to the municipality's long-term resilience.The CitySelfy project aims to analyse if WEF self-sufficiency at local scale can be a promoter...
Baixa Pombalina is the historical downtown area of Lisbon city, close to the Tagus estuary, sheltering many economic activities with tourism at first. This paper assesses and maps the vulnerability of the area, at the neighbourhood scale, to floods episodes and sea level rise. The methodology outlines how the different components of vulnerability are tackled, while taking the importance of the local context to ...
Baixa Pombalina is the historical downtown area of Lisbon city, close to the Tagus estuary, sheltering many economic activities with tourism at first. This paper assesses and maps the vulnerability of the area, at the neighbourhood scale, to floods episodes and sea level rise. The methodology outlines how the different components of vulnerability are tackled, while taking the importance of the local context to ...
Current projections indicate that further efforts are required at national and EU level to keep the EU on track towards its new 2030 targets, and cut EU's greenhouse gas emissions by 80 to 95 % by 2050, as its longer term objectives to decarbonise the European energy and industry system in line with global climate stabilization achievement. This study shows how low carbon technologies interplay up to 2050 to ac...
As atuais projeções indicam que são necessários esforços adicionais para atingir os objetivos de mitigação acordados para 2030 bem como a ambição de reduzir as emissões de gases com efeito de estufa da UE em 80 a 95% em 2050, face a 1990, sendo este o objetivo necessário a longo prazo para descarbonizar o sistema energético e industrial Europeu consentâneo com uma trajetória de estabilização climática do Planet...
This paper presents results of potential CCS infrastructures in the West Mediterranean region including trajectories for CO2 pipelines. The preliminary results are generated with a combination of geographical (GIS) and partial equilibrium optimization modelling (MARKAL/TIMES-COMET). Furthermore, as a result of active stakeholder involvement in the research project, the CCS infrastructures were critically review...
This paper briefly illustrates a method to represent national energy systems and the geographical details of CCS infrastructures in the same technical-economic model. In the MARKAL-TIMES modeling framework a model of Morocco, Portugal and Spain with both spatial and temporal details has been implemented. As a function of assumptions on the development to 2050 of mitigation levels, economic growth and CO2 captur...
This paper briefly illustrates a method to represent national energy systems and the geographical details of CCS infrastructures in the same technical-economic model. In the MARKAL-TIMES modeling framework a model of Morocco, Portugal and Spain with both spatial and temporal details has been implemented. As a function of assumptions on the development to 2050 of mitigation levels, economic growth and CO2 captur...