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Climate Compass Task Force Webinar
11 October 2023 9am GMT
FIG Climate Compass Task Force is launching its first webinar for
building capacity in surveyors to undertake climate action with the
title "Let's Move Beyond Business-as-usual: Talking about Climate
Resilience and Fit-for-purpose surveying for Land, Water & Marine".
Join this International Federation of Surveyors Climate Compass Task
Force webinar to hear about the latest thinking on climate resilience
and fit-for-purpose surveying for land, water and marine. The
fit-for-purpose approach for land has been around in surveying since
2014. It is about designing systems to manage current land issues,
rather than simply following more advanced technical standards.
Key terms are: flexible; reliable; affordable and attainable – rapid
establishment of the system within available resources; upgradeable;
participatory and inclusive; and fit the regulatory framework.
We have knowledge gaps to fill
- Linking fit-for-purpose to climate resilience: which is the
capacity of systems to cope with a hazardous trend, responding or
reorganizing to maintain their essential function, identity, and
structure.
- Going beyond geospatial data and climate resilience to cover all
types of surveying and the 3 Rio Conventions on the environment, all
of which need land.
- New knowledge on climate resilient fit-for-purpose surveying for
land, water and marine.
Speakers
Honorary Associate Professor David Mitchell will talk about
fit-for-purpose approaches for small island states coping with sea level
rise. He will draw from his work on surveying and climate, including
disaster risk management in small island states.
Associate Professor
Eugene Chigbu will explore the link between land tenure, land use
planning, land restoration and climate in the global south. He has
worked on tenure responsive land use planning and a key aspect of
climate - land restoration.
Paula Dijkstra will describe the UN SDGS
goals and their link to our climate goals and the roles of surveyors.
She chairs FIG’s Task Force on the SDGs and is the Director of the Dutch
Kadaster’s International arm providing worldwide advisory services.
Their presentations will be followed by QNA as we share knowledge and
identify climate actions that surveyors can and should be doing.
The webinar will be held on October 11, 2023 at 9am GMT. Register now
for this zoom meeting at:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpdeyurzIrGtX1HFPX0OQopGsTA6XLXkxm
Roshni Sharma and Clarissa Augustinus
Co-chairs of FIG Climate Compass Task Force
15 August 2023
