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Climate Compass Task Force Meetings - webinars
20-22 February 2024 - online webinars
'Regionally relevant case studies showing opportunities and gaps for
surveying and climate': Climate Compass Task Force Annual Meeting and
Seminar Series Feb 2024
Join to meet, learn, inspire and share your expertise
The FIG
Climate Compass Task Force is holding a series of three virtual seminars
across different global time zones across February 20-22, 2024 with:
- Diverse global expert surveying/geospatial practitioners providing
case studies of climate impacts and resilience
- Audience-driven brainstorming livescribed to inform the FIG
Climate Compass Task Force’s latest FIG publication
- Extensive audience involvement and interactivity for learning,
sharing and problem-solving discussions
The Task force on Climate compass is excited to be holding three
preeminent seminars, each with an inaugural task force meeting on 20-22
February 2024. You can attend at the one that matches your time zone
best. It will be one week of interactive, participatory conversations
bringing together surveyors with an interest in climate from around the
world to map the scope of where our expertise can catalyse a better
future for our people, planet and economies. We need your expertise and
experience!
For each of these seminars, we'll be starting off with presentations
from each of our global expert speakers, followed by the exciting part -
active audience participation in both small breakout rooms as well as
large-scale discussion across countries, surveying themes and climatic
themes within the plenary room, allowing each of you to share your voice
on how surveyors can combat the climate crisis.
Our role in this task force is to bring together the everyday
surveyors from around the world to gather a view of the knowledge areas
and gaps in how we, as a profession, can remain relevant and take
proactive roles as specialists and generalists to be integral and
impactful in combatting the climate crisis. We hope that these seminars
provide an exciting opportunity to hear from as many diverse people
around the world working in surveying with an interest in climate.
We need your voice on how spatial intelligence, space technologies,
digital transformation and innovation come together for surveyors for
climate action. It’s about using geospatial technology and innovations to
protect our planet by improving data capture, maintenance, modeling,
analysis, maintenance and use for climate action.
Join us
Together, we will be defining and assessing what the big global land,
carbon and biodiversity issues are that are relevant for surveyors working
at national and local levels. This means thinking about what the legal,
policy, financial, and capacity implications are for rolling out new
solutions at the scale necessary. Opportunities will be identified for the
development of the future of the surveying profession, including technical
opportunities and how surveying education needs to be rethought.
Tue Feb 20, 2024 0900 GMT: Europe/Africa (0900 CET start) Asia Pacific
(1900 AEDT start) -
https://bit.ly/FIG-CCTF-TF-Meeting-Seminar-01-EurAfrOc
- Dr. Paul van Asperen works as Advisor, Digital
Systems Environmental Act, National Water, the Netherlands. He has a
Ph.D in land administration. His presentation will cover the
Netherlands experience with their new environmental planning act and
how the digital land administration system has been adapted to support
it.
- Dr. Eranda Gunathilaka, Senior Lecturer at
Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University, Sri Lanka. He has a
Ph.D in tidal monitoring and is Chair of FIG Commission 4 on
Hydrography. He will speak on Sri Lanka’s national environmental plan
(NDC) and surveying challenges and opportunities.
- Ms. Rumbidzai Chivizhe has an Engineering Masters
(Geomatics) and is a Lecturer at Midlands State University in
Zimbabwe. She will speak on how to use a range of survey tools to
monitor flooding from tropical cyclones.
Wed Feb 21, 2024 2300 GMT: Asia Pacific (0900 AEDT start) Americas
(1700 EST start) -
https://bit.ly/FIG-CCTF-TF-Meeting-Seminar-01-APAC-Ams
- Dr. Charisse Griffith-Charles is a Senior
Lecturer at the Department of Geomatics Engineering and Land
Management at the University of West Indies in the Caribbean. She will
speak on informal settlement regularisation, disaster management and
small island developing states (SIDS) using the extensive work she has
done on this in the field.
- Ms. Kate Fairlie, with a Masters from Oxford
University in Sustainable Development, works for a globally respected
Australian surveying company, Land Equity International, as a land
administration specialist. From their work in the region she will
present 4 case studies from Asia-Pacific linking land and climate.
- Prof. Chen Ruishan from Shanghai Jiaotong
University, China, will speak on landscape architecture and
nature-based solutions to climate change.
Thur Feb 22, 2024 1500 GMT: Americas (0900 EST start) Europe/Africa
(1500 CET start) -
https://bit.ly/FIG-CCTF-TF-Meeting-Seminar-01-AmsEurAfr
- Ms. Usue Donezar is the Expert Lead of Copernicus
at the European Environment Agency. She has 2 Masters degrees
(Geoinformation Science; Law and political science). She will speak on
Copernicus’ climate change service, its free data sets and dashboards
used by the world on climate, land, water and marine.
- Mr. Simon Mwesigye is a Land Tenure specialist at
UN-Habitat supporting Ugandan country operations. He is a valuer with
a Land Management Masters. He will talk on customary tenure and local
forms of land certificates within the national land administration
system linked to natural resource certificates for access to wetlands.
- Mr. Nelson Nieto
is an environmental engineer specialising in GIS and climate
change. He is a researcher in the field of Earth Observation
Technologies of the Research and Prospective Directorate of the
Geographic Institute Agustín Codazzi. In his professional and
research career he has developed and led research projects in
cooperation with international entities in the study and
monitoring of natural resources, strategic ecosystems, territorial
studies, and risk management.
More
information about the Task Force
Co-chairs of the task force
Roshni Sharma and Clarissa Augustinus
February 2024
