Europe is the fastest warming continent in the world, experiencing rapidly increasing amounts of extreme heat, drought, wildfires and flooding. And we are not prepared. The EU will need to step up its work on climate risk management.
- What does this mean for different actors?
- What must change in today’s climate risk management?
- How can tools like Climate risk dashboard help inform planning and policy making?
Please join us exploring these topical questions together with experts and practitioners.
When
Friday, 25 October 2024,10:00 Helsinki time (9 am CEST)
Where
Eurooppasali, Helsinki, Finland and virtually, streamed into YouTube
Please register by 22 October 2024.
Agenda
Coffee will be served ahead of the event.
10:00
Welcoming words
Ismo Ulvila, Head of Communications at the European Commission’s Representation in Finland
10:05
The status of climate risk management in Europe
Leena Ylä-Mononen, EEA Executive Director (virtual)
Key findings and recommendations from the first ever European Climate Risk
Assessment (EUCRA), and how they’re landing.
10:15
Identifying the avoidable, unavoidable and irreversible
Prof. Dr. Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Consortium Lead, Horizon 2020 PROVIDE project (virtual)
The PROVIDE climate risk dashboard is a new interactive online tool providing detailed information on different future global warming scenarios and expected impacts on the climate, natural, and human systems, aiming to inform policy making and planning.
Case study: Enhancing local capacity to meet future flooding in Bodø, Norway
Dr. Helena Gonzales Lindberg, Senior researcher (PhD), Nordland Research Institute (virtual)
10:35
Discussion: Stepping up – but how and by whom?
- How well do we know what to prepare for?
- What are we still missing and how could tools like Climate risk dashboard help?
- Owning the risks – expectations for different actors
Elina Väänänen, Climate Change Specialist, European Investment Bank (EIB)
Hilppa Gregow, Research Professor, Finnish Meteorological institute
Kirsi Mäkinen, Senior Ministerial Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Finland
Susanna Kankaanpää, Project Leader, City of Helsinki
Commentary: Maaria Parry, Chief Specialist, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, Finland
Chaired by: Kaisa Kosonen, Senior Policy Advisor, Greenpeace, member of the PROVIDE Stakeholder Advisory Board
11:30
Closing
The event is co-organised in co-operation with the European Commission Representation in Finland and Greenpeace Nordic.