Adapt4Coast Webinar: Tools to enhance climate change adaptation in coastal areas

Description

Climate change severely impacts coastal areas and communities, such as social and economic damage, Property and infrastructure damage, Coastal submersion and erosion, Threats to human health and safety, and Loss of coastal wetlands and biodiversity. Coastal resilience is thus a critical environmental mitigation strategy. 

Teaming up as the Adapt4Coast Cluster, 4 EU-funded projects (SCORE, CoCliCo, PROTECT, REST-COAST) have joined forces to enhance climate resilience in European coastal areas. In this webinar, representatives of the four projects will present some of the tools and platforms under development to help communities plan smart adaptation strategies and actively tackle climate-related challenges. We will also present the Adapt4Coast joint policy brief including critical findings and valuable insights for government climate policy. 

Date & Time

Tuesday, 21 May 2024, from 10:00am to 11:30am (CEST)

Agenda

• 10:00 – 10:05: Introduction and presentation of the Adapt4Coast cluster – Laura De Nale, Euronovia, France
• 10:05 – 10:20: SCORE participative tools to address local needs: the EbA catalogue and the low-cost sensors catalogue – Mar Riera, ENT, Spain & Tasneem Ahmed, ATU, Ireland
• 10:20 – 11:35: CoCliCo Coastal Climate Risk web platform – Gonéri Le Cozannet, BRGM, France
• 10:35 – 11:50:The PROTECT sea-level projection tool – Anne Chapuis, Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE), France
• 10:50 – 11:05: Towards restored and better managed coastal ecosystems: REST-COAST’s solutions for preservation of large-scale ecosystems – Boris Barov, Pensoft, Bulgaria
• 11:05 – 11:15: Adapt4Coast joint policy brief – Ananya Tiwari, ATU, Ireland
• 11:15 – 11:30: Q&A and closing remarks

1️⃣ Mar Riera Spiegelhalder, an environmental consultant and researcher at ENT and 2️⃣ Tasneem Ahmed, PhD student at ATU Sligo Innovation Centre. They will present SCORE – Smart Control of the Climate Resilience in European Coastal Cities’s participative tools to address local needs: the Ecosystem-based approaches catalogue and the low-cost sensors catalogue.

3️⃣ Gonéri Le Cozannet, CoCliCo’s coordinator, a PhD Senior Researcher, specialist in coastal risks at BRGM, will present the CoCliCo Coastal Climate Risk web platform. CoCliCo aims to inform decision-making on coastal risk and adaptation, by delivering an open web-platform. 

4️⃣ Anne Chapuis, a PhD in glaciology on the dynamics of iceberg calving in Svalbard who has several years of experience in science communication. She is working at institut des geosciences et de lenvironnement ige, a French PROTECT partner. Anne will present PROTECT sea-level projection webtool, still under construction. It will be an open-access interactive regional and coastal sea level rise web-map service.

5️⃣ Boris Barov, an Ecologist (MSc) who worked extensively in biodiversity conservation, restoration, partnerships building and as an independent consultant at Pensoft Publishers. Boris will present different examples from REST-COAST’s nine pilot sites, which demonstrate the benefits of nature restoration as a measure for coastal restoration (e.g. river to sea connectivity and sediments transportation as tools allowing coastal areas to be more resilient to climate change).

6️⃣ Ananya Tiwari, a PhD student at ATU Sligo Innovation Centre, a SCORE – Smart Control of the Climate Resilience in European Coastal Cities partner, currently working on developing the ‘Coastal City Living Lab’ framework, ecosystem-based adaptation as well as socio-economic issues pertaining to climate adaptation. Ananya will present the Adapt4Coast joint policy brief. This policy brief presents critical findings from the Adapt4Coast Cluster.