Room: Plenary

• Janet Sanz (Barcelona City Council)
• Marc Velasco (Co-chair, Aquatec-SUEZ Advanced Solutions)
• Esteban León (Co-chair, UN-Habitat)

Room: Plenary

Speakers:
• Rafaela Saldanha Matos (LNEC - Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil)
• Philippe Quevauviller (European Commission)
• Juan Francisco Arrazola (MITECO - Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition)
• Maria Salamero (Aigües de Barcelona)

Assessing urban resilience: Innovative approaches and success stories
Room 1

In a framework of close collaboration among city departments, urban service managers and other important local stakeholders, the analysis of cascade effects and connections between critical sectors and infrastructures are key elements to achieve a realistic and of holistic resilience assessment. This session presents some innovative approaches to assess and improve urban resilience and interesting implementation in several European cities.

Climate impacts assessment
Room 2

In order to have a complete and accurate assessment of climate impacts, a risk assessment should consider both tangible and intangible impacts related to extreme events, as well as direct and also indirect damages that are induced by the direct impacts and may occur – in space or time – outside the event. This session presents cutting edge methodologies to perform comprehensive climate-related risk assessment and implementations in real cases with a different scale.

Challenges to public health due to climate change impacts in urban areas
Room 3

One of the major challenges that climate change is posing to urban areas, is related to public health. The concentration of population in small areas is increasing the vulnerability of citizens, and especially to those that are already more vulnerable. Urban areas have to include climate change impacts to public health as part of their future planning, so cities can also shelter the most vulnerable when extreme events occur. This session deals with some of the major challenges related to public health while presenting how to be more resilient to them.

Innovative ways to undertake climate change
Room 4

This session will expose, with concrete examples, different ways of planning and addressing sustainability issues. How can we take advantage of co-creation to build resilience in water infrastructure? The session will explore also the participatory processes to involve citizens as key actors co-responsible for the implementation of innovative urban resilience solutions.

How can cities be harmonized in order to cope with climate challenges while ensuring that no one is left behind?
Room 1

Different examples will be exposed to showcase the importance of the collaboration within departments, networks, cities and citizens to better deal with the adversities of climate change. The experience of different cities such as Barcelona or Paris, which set an example for other cities to be inspired and replicates will be shown.

Climate resilience and community engagement
Room 2

Different examples of citizen engagement will be exposed during this session to demonstrate the key role that society plays in the planning and the governance of the city. Cases such as the Teresina city will demonstrate that new ideas need to be incorporated into urban policies and future projects to shape a more resilient, sustainable and inclusive city.

Climate change resilience in urban and peri-urban transport systems
Room 3

Urban areas require, due to the concentration of population and economic activities, robust multi-functional transport systems that are able to function no matter what happens. Climate change may pose important challenges to the mobility systems existent in cities and their surroundings, and thus, adaptation strategies have to be included in future planning in order to be more resilient. This session presents different approaches on that matter, considering different transport networks being affected by various kinds of climate hazards.

Decision support system to manage climate risk in real-time
Room 4

Hydro-meteorological information and early warning systems save several hundreds of lives per year, avoid disaster asset losses and produce additional benefits through the optimization of economic production in weather-sensitive sectors (agriculture, energy, etc.). This session presents several implementations and success stories of EWS and decision support systems to manage climate-related risks.