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26 May 2022, Online
Sustainability Webinar | Green and Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change – Resilient Infrastructure
For the last two decades, water security and climate-resilient infrastructure have been in the spotlight as key concepts for sustainable development. Almost two-thirds of cities around the world believe that climate change will negatively affect their water resilience. Infrastructure will be affected by the physical impacts of climate variability and change, but will also play an essential role in building resilience to those impacts. Extreme events illustrate the extent of this potential exposure. Water and waste companies and administrations are under increasing pressure to invest in new ways to meet new demands due to population growth, climate change and tightening environmental standards. Many companies are concerned about business risks related to water supplies. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused profound changes in the way we live and work, and digitalization is playing an important role globally in the water and waste sectors and beyond, boosting knowledge sharing and collaboration to address these challenges.
Against the backdrop of growing global urbanization and climate change and unforeseen challenges such as those we have recently seen with the COVID-19 pandemic, this webinar focuses on innovative initiatives to address climate-resilient infrastructure and water resilience, as well as the socio-economic factors influencing vulnerability to climate change, and the wider adoption and replication of green and nature-based solutions for climate change, resilient infrastructure and water security.
The aim of this webinar is to provide evidence of the opportunities that blue-green infrastructures and ecosystems-based approaches bring towards climate-resilient infrastructure and water security. Three prominent keynote speakers will talk about the antecedents of the LIFE GREEN ADAPT PROJECT co-funded with the contribution of the LIFE Programme of the European Union under grant agreement No LIFE20 CCA/ES/00179, that will be used as a case study, the technology advances, global experiences as well as barriers and enablers to accelerate adoption and replication of innovation.
The following experts will be present and talk:
- Prof. Dr. Blanca Antizar, European Director of Consultancy, Isle, Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in Environmental Security and Resilience, UCL, United Kingdom
- Ms. Luz Herrero, Coordinator Environment Unit, AIMEN, Spain
- Prof. Dr. Jordi Morato, Professor, Càtedra UNESCO de Sostenibilitat, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Dr. Carlos Alberto Arias, Senior Researcher, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Dr. Elvira Serra, Senior Technology Consultant, ISLE, United Kingdom
When? 26 May 2022 at 4:00 pm CEST | 10:00 am EDT | 10:00 pm CST Asia
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