Webinar On-Demand

Climate Smart Utilities – Tools for adaptation under uncertainty

IWA

Climate adaptation

Target Audience

Water utility managers, consultants, academics, financiers

Description

IWA’s Climate Smart Utilities initiative is supporting utilities to strive towards achieving carbon neutrality while adapting to climate change. Adaptation to climate change impacts across a water system requires an understanding of the hazards that can affect the system and its vulnerabilities. This information can then be used as the basis for identifying and implementing adaptation measures.

This webinar showcases application of adaptation tools that can support utilities in adapting to climate change under uncertainty as an overall strategy to ensure climate resilience.

The focus in this webinar will be on bottom-up risk assessment approaches such as Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA) and the Decision tree framework (DTF) which provides stepwise planning guidance for water resources planners, managers, and engineers to implement robust water management. Examples will be shared on how such tools can be used to identify potential risks and vulnerabilities to municipal water supply systems and to propose concrete adaptation measures for reducing future risk to water security.

Learning objectives

Following this webinar, participants would be able to:

Attain an overview of the structure and application of tools such as CRIDA and DTF for water utilities to support robust decision-making on adaptation.
Gain an understanding of the application of bottom-up approaches to address climate uncertainty and risk reduction.
Inspired and see the benefit of learning more about these tools and applying them in practices

Webinar resources

Download the webinar presentation here

Please find below webinars resources suggested by the panelists:

Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA): collaborative water resources planning for an uncertain future (UNESCO, International Centre for Integrated Water Resources Management, 2018)
Ray, Patrick A.; Brown, Casey M.. 2015. Confronting Climate Uncertainty in Water Resources Planning and Project Design : The Decision Tree Framework. Washington, DC: World Bank. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/22544 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.
World Bank Group. 2018. Building the Resilience of WSS Utilities to Climate Change and Other Threats : A Road Map. World Bank, Washington, DC. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/31090 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO
World Bank. 2020. Resilient Water Infrastructure Design Brief. World Bank, Washington, DC. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/34448 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO

Panelists

Katharine Cross,

https://www.linkedin.com/in/katharine-cross-6251425/

Senior Advisor, Water-Cities

Kari Davis,

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kari-davis-b9a7b980/

Technical Director at Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA)

Diego Juan Rodriguez,

World Bank

Marc Tkach,

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marctkach/

Director, Infrastructure and Integrated Program Management Millennium Challenge Corporation

Andrew Warren,

Water resources & delta management, Deltares

Free

Start time 15:00

Language English

Format

Power point presentations, Moderated panel with Q&A, case studies

Certification

N/A