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SUMMARY:CLIMACT Seminar Series - Bettina Schaefli & Nadav Peleg
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DESCRIPTION:Bettina Schaefli\nNadav Peleg\nThe CLIMACT seminar series 
 “How to move forward and act on climate change” is an interactive onl
 ine event. It takes place twice a month\, every second Monday during your 
 lunch break\, with two new speakers. Each episode aims to strengthen the d
 ialogue and collaboration between key UNIL and EPFL scientists\, swiss pol
 iticians\, entrepreneurs and various actors from the civil society\, throu
 gh collective reflection. A wide range of climate change-related topics wi
 ll be discussed\, integrating perspectives from all sectors and academic d
 isciplines in order to generate new leads and initiatives towards systemic
  solutions. Participants are welcome to take part in the discussion in Eng
 lish or French.\n\nWater resources in Switzerland: what is at stake?\nPres
 ented by Bettina Schaefli\, Professor and Head of the hydrology unit at 
 the Institute of Geography\, University of Bern\n\nWith recent climate ch
 ange impact scenarios\, the question regularly arises whether we are going
  to lack water in the near future. This question has to be analyzed in the
  wider context of the ongoing energy turn-around but also in the context o
 f evolving land use for agriculture\, industry and tourism. Prof. Bettina 
 Schaefli will shed light on some of the key challenges for water use in Sw
 itzerland\, thereby highlighting questions that arise on a wider scale in 
 Europe.\n\nHow climate change and urbanization will affect floods in futur
 e cities?\nPresented by Nadav Peleg\, Eccellenza Assistant Professor at 
 the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment I\, UNIL\n\nCurrently\, more 
 than half of the world’s population lives in cities\, and this proportio
 n is projected to rise to 66% by 2050. Rainfall is the primary cause of ur
 ban flooding\, which causes devastation in many cities around the world. C
 onsequently\, it is critical to study how changes in climate and urban for
 ms will affect rainfall properties. Through our research\, we aim to impro
 ve our ability to predict the magnitude and frequency of floods in future 
 cities. We investigate how the urban area affects rainfall properties and 
 what climate-dynamic processes are involved.
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63821341998
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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