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- Fighting climate change with circular economyPublication . Borrego, Carlos; Nunes, Maria Isabel; Felgueiras, Carlos; Caetano, Nídia; Dias, Marta Ferreira(Excerpt) Climate change has been internationally recognized as a global problem, caused by human action and intensified by national development. Global warming is its most known effect, affecting agricultural activity, increasing drought periods, and causing serious health conditions in worldwide population. Initiatives such as the IPCC have been established to prevent and mitigate climate change and global warming. The Paris Agreement signed by many nations in 2015 represents a significant recognition of the need for global policy actions, across all the activity sectors. Though progress is pursued by developed and developing countries, the scarcity of fossil energy sources and the need to develop in a sustainable way have led to new ideas about the use of natural resources, thus leading to what is nowadays called the circular economy. This Special Issue of Climate, with the theme ‘’Fighting Climate Change with Circular Economy’’, aims to publish research or review articles dealing with topics related to climate change and global warming, within the circular economy perspective, exploring the role and progress of energy policy in the mitigation and adaptation to climate change. (...)