Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici

CMCC (Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change) was established by the Italian Government. It conducts research on climate science and policy to improve the understanding of nature and climate variability mechanisms, its causes and impacts; emphasizing on the Mediterranean Area. CMCC is operated by a Research Consortium: Italian public and private research Institutions. Its headquarters are based in Lecce and its local units in Bologna, Venice, Capua, Sassari and Milan. CMCC produces numerical simulations of global and regional models of climate change, as well as an economic analysis of its impacts on terrestrial and marine ecosystems and on economic activities.