Sea Level Rise Conference 2022

About the conference

The Sea Level Rise Conference aims to assess the available and required scientific knowledge on regional-local sea level change in Europe, policy development and implementation with up-to-date geographical and contextual detail, by bringing together researchers, stakeholders and policy professionals.

The intended key outcome will entail a first assessment report for easy access to regularly updated and usable knowledge on regional-local sea level change in Europe. This intends to complement existing global and European assessments by providing additional geographical and contextual detail, tailored to policy development and implementation. Through a diverse set of keynotes, panels, and other sessions, the conference will put the needs and involvement of policy making and coastal planning at the center of exchanges on regional to local sea level changes in Europe.

• Check out the Conference programme of this edition

• Discover the basin-specific scoping workshops that informed the Conference agenda

Presentation slides

Interested in the slides from presentations made at this conference? All available slides can be downloaded below!

• Ambitions of the Knowledge Hub on Sea Level Rise & Take-Away Messages

• Aims and activities of the Knowledge Hub on Sea Level Rise – Nadia Pinardi, Co-chair of the Knowledge Hub on Sea Level Rise and Chair of the UN Ocean Decade programme CoastPredict

• Main outcomes of the conference –Bart van den Hurk, Co-chair of the Knowledge Hub on Sea Level Rise, Deltares NL

• More than one global number

• What is a reasonable high-end estimate and how to get there? – Roderik van de Wal, Utrecht University, and Co-leader of Task Group: Physical Science, Knowledge Hub on Sea Level Rise

• How to get from global to local projections of sea level changes? – Angélique Melet, Mercator Ocean, and Co-leader of Task Group: Physical Science, Knowledge Hub on Sea Level Rise

• What extremes to expect? – Michalis Vousdoukas, European Joint Research Centre, European Commission

• More than rising water

• Multi-impacts in Venice: a case study – Piero Lionello, Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change

• Coastal erosion – Arjen Luijendijk, Deltares NL

• Coastal flooding and compound events – Paula Camus, University of Cantabria

• More than rising water part 2

• Salt intrusion – Gu Oude Essink, Deltares NL and Utrecht University

• Amplified risk areas: Estuaries – Joanna Staneva, Institute of Coastal Systems – Analysis and Modeling, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon

• Saltwater intrusion in Po Delta – Christian Ferrarin, Institute of Marine Science, National Research Council of Italy

• More than physics

• Decision making under uncertainties – Jochen Hinkel, Global Climate Forum

• Empowering governance to tackle sea-level rise: Reflections from Aotearoa New Zealand – Bruce Glavovic, Massey University, New Zealand

• The SEA’TIES UN Decade project – Lisa Devignol, Ocean & Climate Platform, SEA’TIES Initiative

Our Partners

The Conference was organized by the Knowledge Hub on Sea Level Rise, a joint effort by JPI Climate and JPI Oceans.

This event was made possible through the support of our partners and the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics of the University Ca’ Foscari Venice, and sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research.

Our partners

• CORILA
• EURO-MEDITERRANEAN CENTER ON CLIMATE CHANGE
• NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS

Endorsement

The 2022 Sea Level Rise Conference was endorsed as a UN Ocean Decade activity under the UN DECADE OF OCEAN SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. We contribute to the UN Ocean Decade Challenges and help further the science we need for the ocean we want.