The third INSeaPTION User Workshop was held in Haarlem, The Netherlands, on Sept 25-26, 2018. The workshop provides a basis to identify key user needs of global users and potential scientific methods that INSeaPTION can develop and apply to address these needs. Global users refer to organisations with global concerns such as international organisations supporting development and adaptation, as well as to users whose activity is distributed in many places worldwide, so that the same type of sea level and impact and information is needed in many places.
22 participants from different organisations participated to the workshop. présentations from international organisations (OECD), coastal consulting or reinsurance companies (Royal Haskonning, Deltares, Munich Re), energy supply industry (Electricité de France) presented their views on future potential coastal climate services supporting their activies. Then, break-out groups further discussed needs of sea level and coastal impacts information to support adaptation of critical infrastructures (e.g. Thames River Estuary). The workshop was openened and concluded by Robert Nicholls, scientific Advisor of the INSeaPTION project. Three INSeaPTION project partners were involved in the organisation of this event: IMAU (Erwin Lambert and Roderik Van De Wal), GCF (Sandy Bisaro), and BRGM (Gonéri Le Cozannet).
Links to présentations:
Session 1 : The INSeaPTION project
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Sea Level rise: state of knowledge: Roderik Van De Wal (no available PDF) |
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INSeaPTION project introduction - Gonéri Le Cozannet |
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Coastal impacts of sea-level rise: a global perspective - Robert Nicholls |
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Case study: the Maldives: Sandy Bisaro |
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Case study: French Polynesia: Gonéri Le Cozannet |
Session 2: Global decision-making
Introduction to adaptation finance - Sandy Bisaro
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Public approaches to mobilising private adaptation finance; Lisa Danielson (OECD Climate Adaptation Team) |
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Decision-making from an engineering perspective; Filip Schuurman (HaskoningDHV) - (no available PDF) |
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Decision-making: global sea-level rise information needs; Eberhard Faust (Munich Reinsurance) - (no available PDF) |
Session 3: National and local decision-making
Introduction - Roderik Van De Wal
Perspectives - Robert Nicholls (University of Southampton)
Lessons learned for INSeaPTION Gonéri Le Cozannet
News written by: Sandy Bisaro, Erwin Lambert, Roderik Van De Wal, Gonéri Le Cozannet