In a scenario in which the climate changes underway subject urban centres and large cities to high levels of environmental vulnerability and criticality, emerges the need to define simple and operational decision-making tools capable of prefiguring and verifying the effectiveness of urban transformation and climate-adaptive regeneration processes. The CADI-BE is presented as a tool for assessing the adaptive capacity and the level of performance of open urban spaces to the stresses due to the increase in global average temperatures, the repercussions of which cause the occurrence of heatwaves and the urban heat island effect (UHI), bringing out the inability of cities to cope with changes in the climate, making urban open spaces unlivable places and no longer the ideal habitat for everyday life and social interactions.

The CADI-BE is an experimental tool, useful for defining the environmental performance of an urban open space in response to the increase in temperatures as a consequence of climate change, whose field of experimentation was the city of Naples. If you want to contribute to the project, you can do it by defining some of the specific evaluation parameters for the different Italian or world cities.