Webinar: UBC TALKS about water as a resource in a climate-resilient city

Water management and climate adaptation: approaching water as a resource in a climate-resilient city

At the webinar on 25 May 2021 at 9.30-11.00 CET we will be talking about cities' resilience in relation to the water management. Ensuring that the city is adapted to the climate change consequences is crucial, and it's also important to ensure the efficiency of the water sector in the city.

"Both passive and active climate change mitigation and adaption measures are needed to reduce the flooding risks and increase the overall resilience of the urban areas,"
— Ivar Annus, Tallinn University of Technology

Our speakers from ICLEI, Finland, Estonia and the Netherlands will approach the subject from both regional and local perspectives, bringing the visions for urban resilience, solution examples from around the Baltic Sea and inspiration beyond, as well as practical tools developed in transnational projects.

"Promoting green and blue urban spaces by citizen science based tools results in raising awareness and capacity building. The Climatescan map with 6000 locations of nature-based solutions from over 1000 active users is just one example that puts a big smile on our faces,"

— Floris Boogaard, Hanze University of Applied Sciences

Generic information

UBC TALKS is a series of webinars launched by the UBC Sustainable Cities Commission to discuss various topics of the sustainable development in the Baltic Sea Region.

Quarterly organized in 2021, the webinars traditionally take place on the last Tuesday of the month, 9.30-11.00 CET.

The webinar is May is built on the experiences and knowledge accumulated in the BSR WATER platform.