Piero Pelizzaro

Biography: Piero has 13 years of experience in climate change policies and urban resilience planning. He is the Milan Chief Resilience Officer and City Lead for the H2020 Lighthouse project Sharing Cities at the Municipality of Milan. He is an advisor to the Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition for the National Adaptation Plan to Climate Change. In recent years, he was the Co-Founder of Climalia, a specialized consulting company providing climate services in Italy, where he operates as a Resilience Specialist. Piero was an Acclimatise Associate and researcher at the Planning Climate Change Unit at IUAV Venice. Piero is a member of the SISC Italian Society for Climate Science and the European Commission Mayors Adapt Practitioners Work Group. He has extensive expertise in projects financed by the European Commission, including the LIFE+ project BlueAP Bologna Local Urban Environment Adaptation Plan for a Resilient City (Senior Expert), LIFE+ RECOIL Recovered waste cooking oil for combined heat and power production (Technical Director), MED Green partnerships as Senior Expert and MED ZeroCO2 Small communities for big changing. He further specialised in urban resilience, environmental-economic accounting, energy scenarios, and climate change impact models through his work experience at the Stockholm Environment Institute – Tallinn Office. In past years, he has collaborated with EU MP Umberto Guidoni. He writes for different specialised magazines and web portals on climate change issues.