healthRiskADAPT ambition is to improve policy-making on issues relating to the environment and public health, as well as to improve the preparedness of the health system in reaction to the effects of climate change (heatwaves, air pollution, wildfires and pollen) in Europe. To fulfill this ambition:

healthRiskADAPT’s general objective is to develop and deploy a health risk assessment framework in diverse bio-geographical European regions (Mediterranean, Alpine and Continental regions),  enhancing the ability of local/regional authorities, health professionals to support decision-making related to strategic planning, management, and the daily operational mitigation of climate change-related health challenges.

The healthRiskADAPT framework will be implemented to give users access to transformative solutions that

1) address the root cause of vulnerabilities (through risk indices for specific regions),

2) enable the development of a transformation roadmap (adaptation scenarios with cost-benefit analyses to set priorities), and

3) fix said vulnerabilities through concrete adaptation actions (integrated technical, nature-based and social solutions), all to mitigate the effects of climate change on health and wellbeing to create climate-resilient, healthy societies.

ENEA is involved in several WPs, whose main contribution is in hazard modelling to provide on-demand potential health-relevant climatic hazards in different temporal and spatial scales for whole Europe and for the Naples pilot city. In particular, the MINNI-CAMS. FORAIR-IT and the GAINS-Italy models will be run to produce air pollutant concentrations maps at different spatial and temporal resolution,