Climate Change: Anticipating to Adapt

More than 400 participants, on-site and on line, have attended this international conference: scientists and climate experts, socio-economic actors, elected officials and institutional leaders, representatives of the academic world, students, think-tanks, NGOs and journalists.

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Symposium hosted by Carine ROCCHESANI Journalist
09:15 – Opening session
Jean CHAMBAZ President of Sorbonne Université
Jean JOUZEL President of Météo et Climat

09:30 – Introduction
Hervé LE TREUT Professor at Sorbonne University and Ecole Polytechnique & Chairman of the Scientific Committee

10:00 – Guest speaker – Virginie SCHWARZ CEO of Météo-France (French Meteorological Service) on the theme “From knowledge to decision support”

Session 1 – Water management in climate change adaptation strategies

10:30 – Keynote 1
Belynda PETRIE CEO OneWorld Sustainable Investments
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11:00 – Round Table 1
Hosted by Valéry LARAMÉE DE TANNENBERG Editor-in-Chief of Journal de l’environnement
Speakers: Stéphanie BIDAULT Managing Director at the European Flood Risk Prevention Centre (CEPRI), Sarah FEUILLETTE Evaluation & Prospective Planning Manager at Agence de l’eau Seine-Normandie, Christian HUYGHE Scientific Director for Agriculture at INRAE (French National Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research), Sylvie PAREY Senior Research Engineer at EDF Lab Paris-Saclay, Denis SALLES Research Director in Sociology at the INRAE (French National Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research).

12:00 – Lunch break

13:30 – Guest speaker – Bettina LAVILLE President of Comité 21

Session 2 – Rethinking cities to face current and future climate changes

14:00 – Keynote 2
Luc ABBADIE Professor and Director of the Institut de la Transition Environnementale de Sorbonne University

14:30 – Round Table 2
Hosted by Aline ROBERT Co-founder of Climatico
Speakers: Célia BLAUEL Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of Paris 2030 Foresight and Resilience, Sabine DESNAULT Executive Director R & D, Innovation and CSR at Gecina, Valéry MASSON Researcher at the CNRM (National Centre for Meteorological Research), Météo-France & CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), Johan RANSQUIN Director of Adaptation, Development and Low Carbon Trajectories, Director of the Sophia-Antipolis site of the ADEME (French Environment and Energy Management Agency), Gilles VERMOT DESROCHES Sustainable Development Director, Schneider Electric, member of C3D.

Session 3 – Anticipating and managing climate change in the most vulnerable territories

15:30 – Keynote 3
Dr. Cynthia ROSENZWEIG Head of Climate Impacts Group, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
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16:00 – Round Table 3
Hosted by Anne-Cécile BRAS Journalist & producer at RFI
Speakers : Alain BRONDEAU Overseas Delegate to the Conservatoire du littoral (Coastal Protection Agency), Christophe BUFFET Program manager of Adapt’Action Facility at French Agency for Development (AFD), Renaud LAGRAVE Vice-President of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, in charge of Infrastructures, Transport and Mobility, President of the GIP Littoral, Alexandre MAGNAN Senior Researcher, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change at IDDRI (Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations).

17:00 – Conclusion

17:20 – Closing session

Chair

Hervé Le TREUT Professor at Sorbonne University and École Polytechnique

Members

Alima MARIE-MALIKITÉ Director of Communications at Météo-France
Véronique MARIOTTI Climate risk expert at EcoAct
Claude NAHON Former Director of Sustainable Development at EDF and member of the Meteo et Climat Board
Vivian DÉPOUES Project Manager Climate Change Adaptation at I4CE
Alexandre MAGNAN Senior Researcher, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change at IDDRI
Philippe ROUDIER Research Fellow – Agriculture and Climate Risks at AFD

Climate change is now a well underway process, with some consequences that are clearly visible and some that will inevitably become so in the coming years or decades. A strong link is now needed between mitigation and adaptation approaches, both of which are becoming essential to anticipate what the future world will look like and help build it. Protecting our territories implies in particular a long-term vision of our infrastructures, a capacity for solidarity in the face of very different vulnerabilities from one region to another, or the articulation of the climate change stakes with those of biodiversity or our societies.
The conference will be an opportunity to discuss what science’s contribution to these new issues should be, to measure the effort of anticipation they imply, and to illustrate them with specific examples.