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SERVIR-Mekong Symposium: Leveraging Geospatial Technologies for Solving the Climate Crisis

USAID SERVIR-Mekong
Thu,  Oct
07
Add to Calendar 2021-10-07 01:00:00 2021-10-07 02:00:00 SERVIR-Mekong Symposium: Leveraging Geospatial Technologies for Solving the Climate Crisis Earth’s climate is changing and Asia is expected to be impacted severely with rising temperatures, droughts, changes in precipitation, rising sea levels, and loss of natural capital. Rising temperatures in the future will drastically change our lives impacting the way we live and work, grow our food, build infrastructure and interact with our environment. People, physical assets, and national economies are at risk from climate change in Asia. According to a recent McKinsey analysis, damage to physical assets and infrastructure in Asia from riverine flooding in a given year could reach $1.2 Trillion by 2050. Geospatial technologies help address adverse effects of climate change, including reducing human losses from climatic disasters, by informing decisions, policies and actions. Use of geospatial technologies has grown exponentially over recent years and these technologies will continue to provide innovative ways of collecting data, analyzing data, and applying the insights to inform decision-making. This webinar series aims to provide a platform for organizations working to address adverse effects of climate change to come together and share experiences and ideas on 1) strengthening the use of existing geospatial technologies for climate change applications and 2) increasing the uptake of such technologies with decision makers in the region. About SERVIR-Mekong: SERVIR-Mekong is one of the five hubs under SERVIR - a joint development initiative of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). SERVIR-Mekog is implemented by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) and its consortium partners: Deltares, Spatial Informatics Group (SIG), and Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). It uses geospatial data to enhance climate change adaptation and mitigation and helps address the regional challenge of managing shared natural resources. Global Climate Change team@climatelinks.org UTC public

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Earth’s climate is changing and Asia is expected to be impacted severely with rising temperatures, droughts, changes in precipitation, rising sea levels, and loss of natural capital. Rising temperatures in the future will drastically change our lives impacting the way we live and work, grow our food, build infrastructure and interact with our environment. People, physical assets, and national economies are at risk from climate change in Asia. According to a recent McKinsey analysis, damage to physical assets and infrastructure in Asia from riverine flooding in a given year could reach $1.2 Trillion by 2050.

Geospatial technologies help address adverse effects of climate change, including reducing human losses from climatic disasters, by informing decisions, policies and actions. Use of geospatial technologies has grown exponentially over recent years and these technologies will continue to provide innovative ways of collecting data, analyzing data, and applying the insights to inform decision-making.

This webinar series aims to provide a platform for organizations working to address adverse effects of climate change to come together and share experiences and ideas on 1) strengthening the use of existing geospatial technologies for climate change applications and 2) increasing the uptake of such technologies with decision makers in the region.

About SERVIR-Mekong: SERVIR-Mekong is one of the five hubs under SERVIR - a joint development initiative of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). SERVIR-Mekog is implemented by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) and its consortium partners: Deltares, Spatial Informatics Group (SIG), and Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). It uses geospatial data to enhance climate change adaptation and mitigation and helps address the regional challenge of managing shared natural resources.

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