23 March 2023 • 8:00AM-9:30AM In Person Flanders House - New York Times building 620 Eigth Avenue,, 38th floor, New York NY 10018 New York, US
Flanders State of the Art in Water Challenges (day 2): Nature Based Solutions and Resilience Against Flooding
In this side event we want to showcase how Flanders has recently implemented major resilience projects against flooding. We also highlight the programmatory framework of the Blue Deal: initially a financial instrument, which within a couple of years aims to a mindset shift in water management with all economic water...
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In this side event we want to showcase how Flanders has recently implemented major resilience projects against flooding. We also highlight the programmatory framework of the Blue Deal: initially a financial instrument, which within a couple of years aims to a mindset shift in water management with all economic water actors (industry, agriculture) and policy makers of all government levels.

The event will take place in Flanders House in New York and will exist in an exhibition during the UN Water Conference. The exhibition will present scale models, photographs, posters and movies on a wide variety of water projects, both national and international in which the Flemish government and our institutions are involved. The water projects are broadly conceived and cover different topics such as: climate resilience, international water cooperation, safe drinking water and sanitation, integrated water management, water security etc.

Program overview:

8.00: welcome and light breakfast

8.30: opening by Minister Demir & Minister Peeters

8.35: Start session

  • The Sigma plan for the Scheldt and Flood protection along the Meuse (Chris Danckaerts, De Vlaamse Waterweg)
  • Roadpaths to alternative & nature based solutions (Barbara Vael, VMM)
  • Living Labs in Flanders: Polders2C’s and Raversijde (Karim Bellafkih/Filip Boelaert, dep. MOW)
  • Waterinfo a digital water portal, helping you to prepare (Karim Bellafkih dep. MOW and Barbara Vael, VMM)
  • Vision on Coastal Protection (Alexander D’Hooghe, ORG, Belgium – New York, Department of Architecture, MIT, Cambridge)
  • Flood protection projects (Kristof Peperstraete, Arcadis)

9.30 Closing

Projects that will be showcased are:

  • Fresh4Cs, Alternative Watersources for coastal regions, including Nature based solutions.
  • B-Watersmart, deployment of storm water for irrigation robust water production.
  • Nereus, on closing the water-energy-materialcycle
  • F2agri, on the use of treated industrial wastewater in agriculture.
  • Sigma Project, on the protection of the Scheldt Estuary
  • Project Vision on Coastal Protection in Flanders
  • H2050, on facing the challenges of water in the future by asking other questions

 

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In this side event we want to showcase how Flanders has recently implemented major resilience projects against flooding. We also highlight the programmatory framework of the Blue Deal: initially a ...

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