Workshop summary
This webinar, jointly organised with the Asian Institute of Technology, explores urban heat risks in south Asia, including discussion of health implications, adaptation challenges, and tools which offer data on such work, namely the Climate risk dashboard. Participants will learn about the PROVIDE Climate Risk Dashboard, a dynamic tool providing information on Climate overshoot risks including urban heat projections for adaptation relevant use, as well as how it was made and the replicability of its approach. Islamabad’s case study, included in the dashboard, will be presented, along with other academic work on the health effects of extreme heat, and future further research needs.
Date: 28 November 2024
Time: 12:00-13:00 CET / 16:00-17:00 PKT / 18:00-19:00 ICT
Register Here: https://tinyurl.com/45nm7u6k
About PROVIDE
Under current GHG emissions trajectories, overshooting the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is a possibility. Even if 1.5°C is only temporarily exceeded in the near term, climate thresholds could be crossed, causing reversible and irreversible impacts, severely hindering adaptation options. PROVIDE aims to offer information on climate impacts, at country-to-local levels, to answer adaptation questions such as whether to adapt to peak or long-term temperatures.
The PROVIDE Climate risk dashboard, a climate services tool, offers concrete entry points for integrating overshoot risks into adaptation planning to strengthen resilience, reduce vulnerability, and avoid maladaptation with linked policy methodologies. This allows policymakers and adaptation practitioners to begin to integrate overshoot related risks into adaptation plans, to protect citizens and infrastructures from extreme and slow-onset climate change impacts.
Speakers
Dr. Carl Friedrich-Schleussner, IIASA
Dr. Mariam Saleh Khan, WCS
Dr. Fahad Saeed, CA
Dr. Niels Souverijns, VITO
Dr. Shobhakar Dhakal, AIT
Audience
Academic, scientific, and practitioners in the adaptation field, particularly with relevance to urban heat in Asia, are a primary audience for this webinar.
Workshop objectives
- Enhance capacity to use the climate risk dashboard and interpret scientific information for recognition of critical thresholds for adaptation
- Highlight the importance of further work on urban heat in South Asia, in relation to health and science based adaptation
- Discuss future work needed in relation to climate overshoot and urban heat
