Webinar - In my region: Urban heat adaptation in Southern, Central and Northern Europe
CLARTIY 4 Climate Resilience - Europe/HomeOffice
This is the fourth "Climate Thursdays" and also the third "CLARITY for Climate Resilience" (Clarity4CR) webinar. It is dedicated to future (urban) heat waves and possible adaptation options that can mitigate the risks and generally improve the quality of life in European urban areas.
Climate Thursdays is a joint initiative of CLARITY (https://clarity-h2020.eu/), CLARA (http://www.clara-project.eu/) and Climateurope (https://www.climateurope.eu/), that is open for all stakeholders interested in contributing and offers a weekly update on key Climate Change and Climate Adaptation developments in Europe.
Clarity4ClimateResilience is a complementary initiative by CLARITY project aiming to bring together the climate experts, companies offering climate adaptation solutions, city/regional planners, project managers and owners of the vulnerable urban and traffic infrastructure. The webinars will be co-organised with other research projects and organisations interested in climate resilience and climate adaptation and cover the following topics: "Climate Services Marketplace", "Climate impact check - In My Region" and "Climate Adaptation Policy & Technology" in European regions and EU as a whole.
Agenda
Urban heat waves are increasing in the whole Europe. CLARITY has produced a set of 21 climate hazard indicators that show regional variability of the climate change. In basic screening, these indicators are overlayed on high-resolution land cover data to get a first impression of the extent of future risk changes.
In Advanced Urban Screening, characteristics of different land cover types are used to estimate the heat hazard, population exposure and extent of impact of heat waves on population for different time periods and different Representative Concentration Pathway scenarios.
Expert studies in Naples (Italy), Linz (Austria), Stockholm and Jönköping (Sweden) show how different European regions in the Southern, Central and Northern Europe will be affected by heat waves in the future and what kind of adaptation options are appropriate for each of the regions.