Incorporating Climate Risks into Decision Making Through CRIDA: Perspectives from Zambia and Chile
Thursday, 24 September 2020
15:30–17:00 CEST / 13:30-15:00 UTC
You are invited to the second installment of the ongoing webinar series “Climate-Resilient Water Management Approaches: Adaptation in an Age of Uncertainty,” co-organized by UNESCO, AGWA, and ICIWaRM.
Water managers face mounting risks from climate change and other drivers of uncertainty. Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA) is a collaborative framework meant to help decision makers, stakeholders, and water managers assess and address the risk and impacts of climate change on water resources. This webinar will introduce participants to real-life examples of case studies that were performed within CRIDA framework in vastly different contexts.
During the dry season, low levels of water in the Kafue Gorge reservoir affects both water availability and power availability, making Zambia’s capital of Lusaka especially vulnerable to climate-related risks. This CRIDA case study explores the approaches that would increase the Iolanda Water Treatment Plant's ability to deliver acceptable levels of water supply to the utility that serves Lusaka while incorporating plausible climate change risks into decision making.
In recent years, an unusually long drought in Chile’s Limarí Basin has led to increasing water security challenges, with a significant impact on the region’s booming agriculture sector. With input from local stakeholders, water managers have used CRIDA to identify specific climate-related risks and chart a path towards developing adaptation strategies at a watershed scale that ensure continued performance of key systems.
Q&A sessions will be run after each case study presentation, featuring interventions and questions from local project partners. The Q&A will also feature questions from the audience in order to facilitate an open discussion and provide for an interactive webinar.
PROGRAM
Opening Comments and Event Moderator
Anil Mishra, Programme Specialist, Division of Water Sciences, UNESCO
SpeakersMarc Tkach, Director, Infrastructure and Integrated Program Management, Millennium Challenge Corporation
Ad Jeuken, Expert Advisor on Climate Change Adaptation and Water, Deltares
Koen Verbist, Programme Specialist, UNESCO
Panel LeadsChipili Chikamba, Infrastructure Development Director (WatSan), Millennium Project Completion Agency Zambia
Gabriel Mancilla, Executive Director, CAZALAC
Closing RemarksWill Logan, Director, ICIWaRM