The Northern Hemisphere is seeing a spate of extreme flooding this year, from Asia through Europe, from Iran to Arizona. Surreal scenes have unfolded, like the iconic situation in Blessem, Germany, where floodwaters seemed to carve a vast sinkhole that swallowed a neighborhood. A closer look shows the town was poised for disaster. A sand and gravel pit expanded a few hundred meters away. A host of studies of Germany's flood history show this deluge was well within what's possible. And of course, human-driven global warming is likely adding to rain totals.

What steps can cut climate vulnerability now while the world also focuses on cutting greenhouse gases for long-haul safety?

Join Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School in a solution-focused brainstorm with top experts on ways to build forward better - designing communities for flooding, giving rivers the space physics requires, and pulling back where necessary.

Guests include:

Katie Walsh, Head of Cities, States and Regions for CDP North America, which has a new report on cities’ climate vulnerability planning: [ Ссылка ]

Upmanu Lall, director of the Columbia Water Center, which is home to the Global Floods Inititiatve: [ Ссылка ]

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Max Ricker of the Nature Conservancy (invited), which just published a much-needed “Global assessment of current and future river flooding and the role of nature-based solutions for risk management”: [ Ссылка ]

Read more on Andy Revkin's new Sustain What dispatch: [ Ссылка ]

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