Climate challenges need to be understood as choices
Choices between different measures, priorities, and trade-offs. Choices that affect how people live, how cities function, and how risks are managed over time. Making these choices visible and understandable is one of the key challenges of climate governance.
Naples, as a dense Mediterranean coastal city, faces many challenges: Increasing pressure from heat, heavy rainfall, and rising sea levels. With the support of the Horizon Europe project KNOWING, these challenges have been translated into concrete options for action. Choices.
At the Regional Pathway Workshop, stakeholders from across sectors in Naples worked together to explore possible pathways. The aim was to understand the implications of different choices and how they can be combined over time.
Measures such as urban greening, improved water management, energy communities, or building renovation are now considered as part of a broader pathway, developing step by step towards 2050.
The result is not a fixed plan, but a shared understanding of possible directions. Of what is feasible, what is desirable, and what trade-offs need to be addressed. The choices we want to make.
Thank you to everyone involved in the Naples Pathway Workshop, and over the past four years, for turning Naples’ challenges into choices.
About KNOWING
KNOWING is a Horizon Europe project that develops tools, models and participatory formats to support climate-transformation. By combining scientific analysis with local knowledge and stakeholder input, the project supports regions and sectors to understand climate risks, assess options, and design effective, inclusive pathways for change.