World Parks Academy Webinar: Managing Biodiversity in a Changing Climate

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World Parks Academy Webinar: The State of Our World's Cities - Emerging and Industrialized Cities

Join City Parks Alliance, World Urban Parks and World Parks Academy for a webinar exploring strategies for managing biodiversity in a changing climate. Speakers, German A. Enriquez Flores and Yvonne Lynch, will share strategies from their work in three geographically diverse cities -- Leon, Riyadh, and Melbourne. The speakers will share how they are using parks and urban forests as laboratories to understand the impacts of climate change and test effective adaptation and management strategies. Although each city faces unique climate challenges, their approaches to climate adaptation, education and research offer similar lessons for how to plan and manage parks and public spaces in a way that supports biodiversity in a rapidly changing climate. Speakers will share strategies for training and redeploying staff to engage them in ecological monitoring through their routine maintenance tasks, how to plan for and adapt flora, particularly trees, in anticipation of climate changes, and how to collect and share data regionally and internationally to inform adaptation efforts.

Presenters

German A. Enriquez Flores, General Director of Parque Metropolitano de Leon (Mexico)

Yvonne Lynch, Urban Greening and Climate Resilience Strategist, Royal Commission for Riyadh City

Webcast Format

This webcast is conducted through online conferencing software and captured for future viewing. This webcast includes a digital recording of the presentation and a download of the presentation.

Course Completion

To be awarded an electronic certificate of completion for attending or viewing this webcast, you must successfully complete a brief assessment to demonstrate your understanding of key course concepts.

Learning Objectives

After attending this webinar, participants should be able to:

1. Participants will learn strategies for managing and adapting urban ecosystems to be more resilient and to support the evolving needs of biodiversity in a changing climate.
2. How to collaborate regionally and globally to collect and share data critical for understanding and responding to climate change.
3. How to train and support staff at all levels to understand local ecology and to contribute to monitoring, data collection, and adaption efforts.

When

Date and Time: August 13, 2020, 2:00 PM EDT (New York Time)

Webinar URL

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