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The “TURaS” project aims to bring together urban communities, researchers, local authorities and SMEs to research, develop, demonstrate and disseminate transition strategies and scenarios to enable European cities and their rural interfaces to build vitally-needed resilience in the face of significant sustainability challenges. To ensure maximum impact, the TURaS project has developed an innovati ...

Background Italy ratified the Kyoto Protocol on 30 May 2002, and has the objective of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 6.5% by 2012 (compared to 1990 levels). This objective has been formalised in a National Action Plan, which was adopted in December 2003. Achieving the target implies action at both national and local levels. The city of Rome mus ...