Climate risk dashboard and future urban heat in South Asia

This webinar, jointly organised with the Asian Institute of Technology, explores urban heat risks in south Asia, including discussion of health implications, adaptation challenges, and tools which offer data on such work.

Participants will learn about the PROVIDE Climate Risk Dashboard, a dynamic tool providing information on climate overshoot risks including urban heat projections for adaptation relevant use, as well as how it was made and the replicability of its approach. Islamabad’s case study, included in the dashboard, will be presented, along with other academic work on the health effects of extreme heat, and future further research needs.

Under current greenhosue gas emissions trajectories, overshooting the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is a possibility. Even if 1.5°C is only temporarily exceeded in the near term, climate thresholds could be crossed, causing reversible and irreversible impacts, severely hindering adaptation options. PROVIDE aims to offer information on climate impacts, at country-to-local levels, to answer adaptation questions such as whether to adapt to peak or long-term temperatures.

The PROVIDE Climate risk dashboard allows policymakers and adaptation practitioners a way to integrate overshoot related risks into adaptation plans, to protect citizens and infrastructures from extreme and slow-onset climate change impacts.

Speakers

• Prof Dr Carl Friedrich-Schleussner, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Climate Analytics
• Dr Mariam Saleh Khan, Weather and Climate Services
• Dr Fahad Saeed, Climate Analytics
• Dr Niels Souverijns, VITO
• Prof Dr Shobhakar Dhakal, Asian Institute of Technology