Leveraging Geospatial Technologies to Solve the Climate Crisis
A series of webinars produced by SERVIR-Mekong promote understanding of the application of geospatial technologies in addressing climate change.
SERVIR-Mekong conducted a series webinars to increase understanding of geospatial technologies in addressing climate change. Access recordings of the webinars below.
- Opening Plenary: Climate Change
- Floods and Water Resource Management
- Droughts and Food Security
- Land Cover, land Use Change and Ecosystems
- Air Quality and Health
About SERVIR-Mekong
SERVIR-Mekong is one of the five hubs under SERVIR, a joint development initiative of USAID and NASA. SERVIR-Mekog is implemented by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center and its consortium partners: Deltares, Spatial Informatics Group and Stockholm Environment Institute. It uses geospatial data to enhance climate change adaptation and mitigation and helps address the regional challenge of managing shared natural resources.
Background
Earth’s climate is changing and Asia is expected to be impacted severely with rising temperatures, droughts, changes in precipitation, rising sea levels and loss of natural capital. Rising temperatures in the future will drastically change our lives impacting the way we live and work, grow our food, build infrastructure and interact with our environment. People, physical assets, and national economies are at risk from climate change in Asia. According to a recent McKinsey analysis, damage to physical assets and infrastructure in Asia from riverine flooding in a given year could reach $1.2 trillion by 2050.
How Can Geospatial Technologies Help Countries Deal with Climate Change?
Geospatial technologies help address adverse effects of climate change, including reducing human losses from climatic disasters, by informing decisions, policies and actions. Use of geospatial technologies has grown exponentially over recent years and these technologies will continue to provide innovative ways of collecting data, analyzing data, and applying the insights to inform decision-making.