According to the European Union and the PNACC - National Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change - monitoring and evaluating strategies and actions for the mitigation of climate-altering emissions and for adaptation to current and future climate impacts are fundamental tools for evaluating actual progress in addressing the climate crisis at any political and territorial level.

The challenge of evaluating how effective climate change interventions actually are is particularly difficult and is the main reason why the IndicaMi project was born. The local level is in fact the dimension in which many climate adaptation actions of communities and natural and anthropic ecosystems are carried out.

In order to monitor, evaluate and report the levels of adaptation achieved at the local or municipal level, a metric, a model and a conceptual path were sought that could be adapted to the various local contexts and were simple enough to allow Municipal Administrations to formulate measurable short-medium-long term objectives.

An applicative reading of the current and future climate status is accompanied by other sectoral territorial information, updated periodically, in order to feed a set of sectoral indicators, multidisciplinary indices and related mitigation and adaptation targets.

In order for this methodology to be used over time by the Municipal Administrations of a wider area , an operational sharing of data, indicators and vision of climate transition must be triggered on the superordinate and municipal plans by explicitly specifying objectives/indicators that can be monitored in terms of performance in the relevant territorial government tools.