El Niño Is Here: How Global Cities Are Preparing for an Inevitable Threat
Could this year's intense climate pattern offer a window to how we should prepare for the future?
A strong El Niño event is anticipated in the coming months, creating a unique opportunity to examine implications for climate risk, city preparedness, and community resilience. El Niño can affect weather, precipitation, temperature, storms, drought, air quality, food systems, supply chains, energy use, and health outcomes. It is also likely to cause a marked rise in global average surface temperatures, intensifying existing climate-related stressors.
This webinar will focus on what global cities are doing to prepare, what systems are ready, where gaps remain, and what can be done to overcome them. It will feature opening remarks from Columbia Global Executive Vice President Wafaa El-Sadr.
The event will be hosted by the NYC Preparedness & Recovery Institute, in collaboration with Columbia Global and the Columbia Climate School.
Speakers
- Wafaa El-Sadr, Executive Vice President, Columbia Global
- Jeffrey Shaman, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Professor of Climate, Climate School
- Mitch Stripling, Director, NYC Preparedness & Recovery Institute
- Caroline Costa, International Relations Analyst, Resilience and Operations Center of the City of Rio
- Avinash Dhakane, Additional Municipal Commissioner (Eastern Suburbs) at the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
- Joyce Kimutai, Climate Scientist at Kenya Meteorological Services Authority and World Weather Attribution, Imperial College London
- Shada El-Sarif, Founder & CEO – SustainMENA
