Meetings and conferences
Foreseeable Future - Data integration for climate & disaster risk reduction
Organizer(s)
Tonkin + Taylor
Format
Online
Date
Climate change and disaster risks pose a serious threat to communities physical, social, economic, and environmental conditions.
About this event
Climate change and disaster risks pose a serious threat to the physical, social, economic, and environmental conditions of our communities. The potential increase in the occurrence and intensity of extreme weather events as a result of climate change, coupled with increasing population in vulnerable areas reinforces the need for improved prediction and forecasting for the foreseeable future.
Join us and experts from the Asian Development Bank, Green Climate Fund, UNDRR at United Nations and GIZ in this free webinar where we’ll cover:
- The role of the Green Climate Fund in accelerating climate action
- Climate risk country profiles and risk assessment for investment
- Coherence for disaster risk reduction and climate change
- Climate change risk assessment in Asia and the Pacific
- New Zealand’s National Climate Change Risk Assessment
Speakers
- Dr. Bapon Fakhruddin, Tonkin + Taylor
- Charles Andrew Rogers, Asian Development Bank
- Kevin Horsburgh, Green Climate Fund
- Manea Sweeney, Tonkin +Taylor
- Richard Reinen-Hamill, Tonkin + Taylor
- Jenty Kirsch-Wood, UNDRR at United Nations
- Dr. Sandra Schuster, Deutsche Gesellschaft feur intl. Zusammen arbeit (GIZ)
Time
08:00 - 10:00 CEST