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
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Thomas Dermine
State Secretary for Economic Recovery and Strategic Investments, in charge of Science Policy
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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
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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
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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