{"id":2780,"date":"2025-08-14T19:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climaerel.ipta.demokritos.gr\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2025-08-14T22:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:51:54","slug":"sitias-path-to-climate-resilient-olive-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climaerel.ipta.demokritos.gr\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/sitias-path-to-climate-resilient-olive-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitia\u2019s Path to Climate-Resilient Olive Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sitia, Crete, is pioneering ways to safeguard its famous extra-virgin olive oil against heat, droughts, and wildfires. In <strong>Regions4Climate<\/strong>, Dr. Thanasis Sfetsos (NCSR Demokritos) presented new <strong>eco-friendly pest control<\/strong> methods using pheromones to combat the olive fruit fly and plans to make a local olive oil factory <strong>carbon neutral<\/strong> with heat pumps and energy reuse. Alongside, <strong>Med-IREN<\/strong> applies nature-based solutions to reduce drought and flood risks. These initiatives show how tradition and innovation can work together to build resilience in one of Europe\u2019s climate hotspots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-essential-blocks-button\"><div class=\"eb-parent-wrapper eb-parent-eb-button-lv5jd \"><div class=\"eb-button-wrapper eb-button-alignment eb-button-lv5jd\"><div class=\"eb-button\"><a class=\"eb-button-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/revolve.media\/features\/sitias-olive-cultivation-climate-resilience-nature-based-solutions\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more here<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitia, Crete, is pioneering ways to safeguard its famous extra-virgin olive oil against heat, droughts, and wildfires. In Regions4Climate, Dr. Thanasis Sfetsos (NCSR Demokritos) presented new eco-friendly pest control methods using pheromones to combat the olive fruit fly and plans to make a local olive oil factory carbon neutral with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,12,107,268],"tags":[161,23,88,24,501,85,248,237,236,167,276],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-med-iren","category-news","category-regions4climate","category-sitia","tag-climateaction","tag-climatechange","tag-climateimpact","tag-climateresilience","tag-creta","tag-demokritos","tag-med-iren","tag-mediren","tag-naturebasedsolutions","tag-regions4climate","tag-sitia-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climaerel.ipta.demokritos.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climaerel.ipta.demokritos.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climaerel.ipta.demokritos.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climaerel.ipta.demokritos.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climaerel.ipta.demokritos.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/climaerel.ipta.demokritos.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/climaerel.ipta.demokritos.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climaerel.ipta.demokritos.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climaerel.ipta.demokritos.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climaerel.ipta.demokritos.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climaerel.ipta.demokritos.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}