V Cross border conference on climate and coastal change
Focussed on action and communication against climate emergency
SESSION I
SESSION II
SESSION III
SESSION IV
Official opening
Opening
Adolfo Uriarte, Strategic Value Director AZTI
OPENING KEYNOTE LECTURE
The only possible scenario for achieving the Paris commitment to keep the temperature of the planet between 1.5-2°C above pre-industrial values by the end of the century is to combine drastic emission reductions with the capture of greenhouse gases, through "negative emission technologies". We will analyse what these challenges are, both from a scientific and a governance point of view, including their potential and risks.
Javier Arístegui
Institute of Oceanography and Global Change. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
GUEST SPEAKER
The Basque coast is exposed to energetic open ocean swells from the North Atlantic. Due to the irregular underwater rock formations, the wave processes are highly subject to the local bathymetry. We have utilized the phase-resolving numerical model BOSZ, developed within the E2S chair HPC-Waves at UPPA, to compute a variety of typical wave scenarios along the Basque coast. We will explain the numerical background of the model and highlight its applicability to study nearshore wave processes. The results along the Basque Coast exhibit strong local refraction patterns nearshore, which lead to a significant variation of wave energy along the coast. Infra-gravity wave processes often dominate the wave runup and show substantial energy levels even in long-period bands over 5 min.
Volker Roeber
The University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour
Iñaki de Santiago
AZTI
Guillem Chust
AZTI
Arantza Murillas
AZTI
11:10 | Coffee break
Moisés Álvarez Cuesta.
IH Cantabria
Elisa Sainz de Murieta
BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change
Almudena Fontán
AZTI
Luis Torres
Sigillum Veri S.L.
12:30 | Coloquium
GUEST SPEAKER
The paper analyses the impact of the sea level rise due to climate change on different CPR 4.5 and 8.5 hypotheses in the year 2045 and 2100 from the point of view of the territorial organisation of the Basque Country's coastline both due to the high tides themselves and to the impact of sea storms, river floods and storms of short duration but high intensity. All these impacts are reflected both in the urban environment and in the green network (beaches, marshes and dunes).
Introduction: Ignacio de la Puerta, Director of Territorial Planning, Urbanism and Urban Regeneration. Basque Government.
Amaia Salaberria
Salaberria Engineering. Directorate of Territorial Planning, Urbanism and Urban Regeneration. Basque Government.
GUEST SPEAKER
Climate change monitoring and surveying, and in particular the evolution of sea level rising and coastal wave climate and coastal hazards, as well as to promote adaptation actions are priority objectives of the Gipuzkoa Climate Change Strategy (Klima-2050). The Gipuzkoa Coastal Observing and Monitoring System aims to strengthen and support the Strategy through the dissemination of data and advanced knowledge of the local and regional coastal system and how they advance in the context of global climate change.
Dorleta Orue-Echevarría
Gipuzkoa Climate Change Foundation, NATURKLIMA
13:30 | Coloquium
14:00 | Lunch
GUEST SPEAKER
David Gutierrez Bakio Town Council
Denis Morichon
The University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour
Arthur Mouragues
EPOC- CNRS- University of Bordeaux
Efren Feliu
Tecnalia
Santiago Gaztelumendi
Tecnalia and Basque Meteorology Agency (Euskalmet)
Nicanor Prendes Rubiera
MITERD-OECC
16:15 | Coloquium
GUEST SPEAKER
The Coastal Video Network of Gipuzkoa is a regional service for monitoring important indicators for the public management of Gipuzkoa's beaches, in the short, medium and long term, also with attention to the effects of climate change. The Network currently has 12 stations located in all the coastal municipalities and is managed with the collaboration of the AZTI Foundation and the local councils. The data exploitation is based on the Kostasystem.
Gabriel López Martín
Environment Area. Direction General of Environment. Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa
16:55 | Colloquium
End of the first working day
Opening
Opening keynote lecture
Day two
The term "Blue Carbon" was introduced as a metaphor to highlight that coastal ecosystems, in addition to terrestrial forests (named green carbon), contribute significantly to organic carbon (C) sequestration.
María José Sanz
BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change
GUEST SPEAKER
The aim of the project is to provide information and tools to organizations responsible for the planning and management of coastal areas in relation to Climate Change (CC). The work is articulated on the necessary information for the evaluation of the Vulnerability and the Risk; the construction of an integrative Geographic Information System that is a tool for the dissemination of the conclusions and it is also decision-making oriented; the Draft of the plans of adaptation to CC in the Terrestrial Maritime Public Domain areas belonging to the Basque Country and, finally, to elaborate orientations for the adaptation by increasing the resilience of the coast to face the CC (goods, services, environmental, socioeconomic, cultural values, etc.).
Manuel González
AZTI
Jonas Pinault
The University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour - SIAME-UPPA.
Fatima Zahra Mihami
The University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour
José Jiménez
Laboratory of Maritime Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalonia
Stephane Abadie
The University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour - SIAME, E2S
Iñigo Aniel Quiroga
IH Cantabria, University of Cantabria
Matthias Delpey
SUEZ Eau France - Center Rivages Pro Tech
11:10 | Colloquium
11:30 | Coffe break
GUEST SPEAKER
Seagrass meadows are intense natural carbon sinks wile providing other key ecosystem services such are coastal protection, food provision and seawater quality. Distributed globally, seagrasses rank amongst the most threatened ecosystems in the biosphere. The loss of seagrass vegetation not only involve the loss of carbon sequestration capacity, it puts at risk of erosion carbon stored over millennia in the sediment that may result in CO2 emissions. Conservation and restoration of seagrass meadows are recognised as an effective strategy for climate change (CC) mitigation. Interventions through Blue Carbon strategies would provide additional benefits (CC adaptation) beyond CC mitigation.
Nuria Marbá
IMEDEA
Leire Arantzamendi
AZTI
Irene Arcelay
University of the Basque Country
Diego Fernández Fernández
Red Eléctrica de España
12:55 | Coloquium
GUEST SPEAKER
The UrbanKlima 2050 project for the deployment of the Basque Climate Change Strategy (KLIMA 2050) has been approved by the European Union within the Integrated Projects Area for mitigation of and/or adaptation to climate change. It has a budget of almost €20 million (52% funded by the EU) and is to last over 5 years. It is led by the Department of the Environment, Territorial Planning and Housing via its publicly run environmental management company Ihobe. The consortium also includes around 20 other institutions and entities from all over the Basque Country (the Basque Government, the 3 provincial councils, 7 municipal councils, including those of the provincial capitals, URA, EVE, 5 technology centres and Naturklima).
Mª Mar Alonso Martín
Ihobe
13:45 | Lunch
Alberto Hernández Salinas
Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur les Amérique (IHEAL-CREDA), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Fernando José Leon Mateos
University of Vigo
Jorge Molines
Polytechnic University of Valencia
Milo Villain
The University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour
Adrien Prenveille
Surfrider Foundation Europe
David Rosebery
Office National des Forêts
16:00 | Colloquium
GUEST SPEAKER
If the 1954 storm and associated floods are often identified as a turning point in flood risk management doctrine in Holland, what about the changes in France following Storm Xynthia? To answer this question, we conducted a two-stage analysis. First, we compiled, categorized and analysed all the recommendations and other "lessons learned" that were made public following Storm Xynthia. Secondly, we analysed local risk management plans and strategies and conducted a series of semi-structured interviews in Charente Maritime to identify current flood risk mitigation practices. We analysed these interviews according to the recommendations identified. These analyses allow us to have an outcome of the past ten years and to identify both the acceleration effects due to storm Xynthia, the hinge effects, as well as the lock-in effects related to the history of flood risk management in Charente, and the challenges of optimisation under budgetary constraints.
Estelle Rouhaud
CEARC Laboratory
17:00 | CLOSURE
Posters
SESSION I
SESSION II
SESSION III
SESSION IV
Javier Arístegui
Professor of Ecology, member of the Institute of Oceanography and Global Change at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Professor and Researcher in Biological Oceanography and Climate Change. He was vice-president of the International Global Change Programme "IMBeR" (Integrated Marine Biosphere Research) during 2008-2013. He has been "Contributing author" and "Reviewer" for the Assessment Report AR5 (2014) of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and more recently "Lead author" for the IPCC's special report (2019) on Oceans and the Cryosphere. In 2015 he was awarded the "Helmholtz International Fellow Award" by the association of German centres of excellence in research. In recent years he has been participating in international programmes on artificial fertilisation and ocean alkalinisation, such as CO2 capture technologies.
María José Sanz
BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change.
Dr María J. Sanz is Professor IKERBASQUE and Scientific Director of the Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3), a centre of excellence of the Basque Government and Maria de Maeztu Unit of Excellence. She leads a multidisciplinary research team. She was Director of the Air Pollution Effects and Carbon Cycle Programme at the Centre for Environmental Studies of the Mediterranean (CEAM) in Valencia, while advising the Spanish Government on Land Use and Forest Affairs in the multilateral negotiations of the UNFCCC. She also advised the EU Commission and the US EPA on air quality regulations for seven years. She is Member of the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the UNFCCC. She worked at the UNFCCC Secretariat in Bonn for five years and she was the Coordinator of the UNREDD programme at the FAO for another five years. She received the 2007 Noble Peace Prize as author of the IPCC, to which she has contributed since 2003 in several reports, until today. She is an advisor to the Green Climate Fund, the World Bank, CIFOR, FAO and several developing country governments on forestry and land use issues.
Volker Roeber
The University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour
Volker Roeber is responsible for the E2S chair HPC-Waves at the University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour. Volker is specialized in numerical modeling of nearshore waves with experience in laboratory and field experiments.
His research focuses on the development of numerical solutions for operational nearshore wave models and the application of these models to explain coastal processes.
Volker received his PhD in Ocean & Resources Engineering from the University of Hawaii and was Assistant Professor at Tohoku University, Japan, where he worked on wave-driven catastrophic events for the goal of disaster mitigation. He is also Affiliated Research Faculty in the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii.
Amaia Salaberria
Salaberria Engineering. Directorate of Territorial Planning, Urbanism and Urban Regeneration. Basque Government.
Amaia Salaberria, Civil Engineer and Master BIM, has extensive experience in hydraulics and river modelling. Currently, she works in Salaberria Engineering as Project Manager and writer of the Partial Territorial Plan of Donostialdea-Bajo Bidasoa, so besides having the engineering vision, she also has the vision of territorial planning so necessary to address a cross-cutting issue such as climate change.
Dorleta Orue-Echevarría
Gipuzkoa Climate Change Foundation, NATURKLIMA
PhD in Marine Sciences from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Currently a technician at the Observatory for Climate Change of the Gipuzkoa Climate Change Foundation, NATURKLIMA.
The foundation's work focuses on the analysis of data series and the diagnosis of the vulnerability and impact of climate change in Gipuzkoa.
David Gutierrez
Bakio Town Council
Urban architect specialised in urban and territorial planning as well as in advising town councils on urban and environmental matters. Since 2015, he has been advising Bakio Town Council on the redefinition of its urban and environmental model, developed through a large participatory process.
Among the different tasks provided, the advice and coordination of work carried out related to this change of model, developed by different teams, stands out. Of particular note is the change in the town planning model, expressed mainly through its General Planning; the forestry model, through the Public Forest Management Plan and extensive reforestation carried out in parallel with its writing; or mobility, through the Mobility Plan.
The work carried out includes the coordination of the process of redefining river dynamics and flooding problems through the recovery of their natural processes. Amongst these, the coordination of the creation of an inland marsh and floodable forest in Bakio, integrated in the LIFE IP URBAN KLIMA 2050, stands out. We are also currently advising on the incorporation of flooding problems caused by marine phenomena into urban planning (in collaboration with Ihobe and Azti).
Gabriel López Martín
Provincial council of Gipuzkoa
Degree in Environmental Sciences. Technician at the Direction General of Environment of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa.
Manuel González
AZTI
Civil Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), specialising in Port, Oceanography, Hydraulics and Energy Engineering. Diploma of Advanced Studies in 2010 by the UPC in numerical modelling.
He has 25 years of experience in marine dynamics projects, analysis of oceanographic and meteorological data series and numerical modelling of currents, waves, tides and transport.
Mª Mar Alonso Martín
Ihobe
Degree in Chemistry from the University of the Basque Country. She has more than 25 years of experience as a professional in the environmental area in Ihobe.
From 2002 to September 2019: he has coordinated local sustainable development processes in the municipalities of the Basque Country through Udalsarea 2030. She was responsible for carrying out network management, developing management and planning methodologies, generating support tools, technical training, encouraging innovation at a local level and promoting dissemination actions, as well as exchanging experiences and identifying best practices.
Since September 2019 it coordinates the Climate Action Area in Ihobe.
Estelle Rouhaud
CEARC Laboratory
Estelle Rouhaud is an Associate Researcher at the Cultures, Environments, Arctic, Representations, Climate (CEARC) research laboratory at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. She is also a Project Manager in the Consulting and Strategy Department of Suez Consulting. With a profile in the social sciences, she has been working on the theme of the Xynthia storm and the management of the risk of marine submersion in France since 2018. Estelle has more than 10 years of experience in the field of climate change and has specialised in climate change adaptation in the context of developing countries and France since 2014. Prior to CEARC, she worked in the climate research teams of the London School of Economics and the British think-tank Chatham House.
Nuria Marbá
Scientific researcher at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (CSIC-UIB).
Biologist conducting research on marine ecology and global change. Her research interests are to know the function and services provided by marine ecosystems (mostly related to climate change mitigation and adaptation), the coastal ecosystem responses to pressures and to the release of pressures as well as to provide scientific basis to define marine ecosystem conservation policies.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish, English and French will be provided for all sessions
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