Programme
Provisional programme with
panel descriptions and speakers
(last update: 15/02/2024)
Day One
19/2
08:30 - 09:30
Registration
with welcoming coffee and pastries
09:30 - 9:40
Conference Opening
09:40 - 10:40
Clair Barnes
Environmental statistician, World Weather Attribution, Imperial College London
Thomas Dermine
State Secretary for Economic Recovery and Strategic Investments, in charge of Science Policy
Bas Smets
Architect, Professor in Practice at the GSD of Harvard University
11:00 - 12:00
Compounding events and tipping points
Warning systems: lessons learned from 2021 floods
Nature-based solutions for climate extremes
Nonlinear processes: compounding events
& tipping points
12:15 - 12:45
Artistic Performance
12:45 - 14:00
Lunch Time
14:00 - 15:00
Resilience of transport infrastructure
to climate extremes
Systems thinking for climate risks
Biodiversity and agricultural resilience to climate extremes
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30
Resilience of energy infrastructure to climate extremes
Inequities in exposure to climate extremes
Navigating the climate research funding landscape
16:30 - 17:30
17:30 - 18:30
Drinks & Networking
Day Two
20/2
09:00 - 10:00
Registration
with welcoming coffee and pastries
10:00 - 11:00
Paleoclimatologist, Research Director CEA, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Paris Saclay
Captain of Transition, Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:30
Physical and mental health impacts of climate extremes
Climate risk
assessments: perspectives
Sea-level extremes and marine heatwaves
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Time
14:00 - 15:00
Impacts of climate extremes on the carbon cycle
Insuring climate risks: towards public-private partnerships
How to create a (media) impact with your research
14:00 - 15:00
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30
Parallel Sessions - 3 -
Attribution of climate extremes
Q&A with the Belgian Climate Centre
Cities and climate extremes
16:30 - 17:30
Poster Presentation
17:30 - 18:30
Closing Ceremony