Climate Adaptation & Resilience – how can the Danish water sector play a role? And what are the business potentials?
Some of the most devastating consequences of climate changes are too much, too little, or polluted water. And the disasters hit in first line the World’s poorest and least developed countries. Increased financial assistance to handle climate adaptation & resilience is therefore raised as a key priority by the third world in the discussions of stricter global targets on climate mitigation. As support from the World’s poorest and least developed countries are needed to enter agreement on more ambitious climate mitigation targets, we expect the funds available for climate adaptation & resilience to raise substantially in the future.
In this webinar we will try to uncover the term “climate adaptation & resilience”, hear the needs from some of the affected countries – and not least how the Danish Ministry of Foreign Ministry estimates the potentials?
Teams-link will be send an hour before the webinar starts.
Program
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13.00-13.05 Welcome by Mads Helleberg Dorff, Director at Confederation of Danish Industry; Head of DI Water
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13.05-13.25 Introduction and status on climate adaptation by Kirsten Halsnæs, professor at DTU
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13.25-13.45 Status on climate adaptation projects, initiatives, and allocated funds by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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13.45-13.55 Challenges and possibilities in Burkina Faso by Embassy of Burkina Faso in Copenhagen
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13.55-14.05 Challenges and possibilities in Ghana by Embassy of Ghana in Copenhagen
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14.05-14.30 Discussion and Q&A
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Background:
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines climate adaptation as "a response to existing or expected effects of climate change. Climate adaptation moderates the damage or harnesses the benefits of climate change. There are different types of adaptation, including natural and planned adaptation".
There are many ways to adapt and create resilience, but there is no doubt that climate adaptation and resilience initiatives should be closely linked to improved water management, as this is where the challenges of climate change are particularly visible in the form of too much, too little, or too polluted water. How these challenges present themselves and how urgent the call for action is, differs across the globe, but we are only going to see a rise in urgency in the years to come.
Denmark has a position of strength in water technology, so the question is how we leverage this position to drive adaptation and resilience initiatives internationally so we can protect ourselves and our communities in the future.
At the webinar we will get an overview on climate changes in terms of water followed by an introduction to the term 'climate adaptation and resilience'. Then we will get an insight into how the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs relates to the topic and what funds have been and will be allocated to the area. Lastly, we will get some perspectives on specific challenges and solutions from representatives of countries who are hit the hardest by climate changes, to gain insight into the water issues they face as a result and the demand it leaves for technology that adapts to these.
The aim of this webinar is to give the members of DI Water some new perspective on climate adaption and resilience and give some inspiration to their next step towards new solutions and potential new markets.
