Speaker
Description
Just transition has emerged as a key concept in climate adaptation in the last years due to growing evidence on how the most vulnerable people and systems are disproportionally at risk from climate change. Socially vulnerable groups, such as older people, children and low-income groups, are disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change and do not always benefit fairly from adaptation responses to these impacts.
The climate modelling team of VITO has developed climate services that aim to play a role in just transition and adaptation planning to shape a climate-resilient society. One of our focus areas is urban heat, for which VITO has developed a street-level scale urban climate model to quantify the impact of climate change and adaptation measures for vulnerable groups. Combined with citizen-science data collection and stakeholder workshops, we help to support local climate adaptation management and shape policy frameworks. Examples and lessons learned from past projects in Africa, India and Europe will be presented.
A second focus area of our team is sustainable food production, for which we combine key crop and high-resolution climate data to estimate present and future yields. In several projects in Africa, we have assessed the performance of local adaptive management practices in delivering robust yields and better coping with future climatic conditions. Through workshops and training visits we support local communities, national experts and scientists to jointly address the climate adaptation issues by disseminating the findings and promoting collaboration and co-creation.
| If your abstract is not accepted for an oral presentation, would you be interested in presenting it as a poster instead? | Yes |
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| If accepted by the Scientific Board, I agree to have my presentation/poster and abstract published on the Belgian Climate Centre websites and social media. | Yes |
