Event Summary
Organization: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre & International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University
Session Leads
- Erin Coughlan de Perez, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
- Lisa Goddard, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University
- Pietro Ceccato, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University
- Andrew Kruczkiewicz, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University
Speakers
- Jemilah Mahmood, Under Secretary General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- Paul Block, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Philip Ward, Institute of Environmental Studies, VU University
Description
Does society really understand the risks and potential impacts associated with El Niño and La Niña? This session addressed major misconceptions around these large-scale climate events, including the common belief that El Niño and La Niña pose greater risk for major disasters worldwide. In this session, several climate forecasting institutes engaged each other in a controversial Map Slam, first pitching the risk information that is available about El Niño and La Niña and engaging each other on how risks can be best represented to decision makers. This was followed by an interactive Peer Learning Conversation, in which risk modelers and risk managers discussed what levels of risk trigger what actions, which risks are least understood, and what could be done to address this in the coming seasons.
Ignite
By Lisa Goddard, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University
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