Adaptation to Extreme events in a hotter climate - IMPEL conference - Session 2 Floods

Europe in the second half of the century may face more river floods if global temperatures continue to rise. Something it needs to begin preparing for now. Severe floodings have hit Britain and Germany and Serbian Republic in recent years, and Paris was forced to evacuate 1,500 people when the Seine flooded. Cities can build large infrastructure such as reservoirs or flood barriers, or can make smaller incremental changes repeatedly.

There is a lot of extreme weather events that will hit us, so we have to really start thinking long term in terms of preparing and adapting for any sort of climate event. The floods can threat water supplies and states/regions/cities need to adapt long before a flood hits.Here you find the presentation of the conference held in Rome and organized by Water and Land Expert Team (W&L ET).

State of implementation of Floods Directive by Jill Michielssen (DG ENV)

State of implementation of Water Framework Directive by Jill Michielssen (DG ENV)

Applying the Water Framework Directive and Floods Management Directive in the Rhine transnational basin by Adrian Schmid-Breton (Internationale Kommission zum Schutz des Rheins)

Exploitation of satellite-to-earth microwave links to estimate rainfall by Daniele Caviglia, Luca Lanza (University of Genoa)

Monitoring floods in Lombardy: real time and planning by Matteo Cislaghi (ARPA Lombardy, SNPA)

Floods Directive: managing diversity by Barbara Lastoria (ISPRA, SNPA)

Weather alert system: floods and avalanches by Roberto Cremonini (ARPA Piedmont)

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Marco Falconi IMPEL Water and Land Expert Team