The Hotspot Stoplight: Integrated Modeling and Mapping of Climate Risk, Biodiversity Loss, and Urban Expansion
UN-Habitat, the University of Pennsylvania, and the government of Costa Rica will share early lessons from application of their latest risk mapping. Its algorithms project urban growth, biodiversity loss, and climate change over time and create geospatial indicies of risk and urban development suitability. San José will demonstrate how it is able to choose the most optimal development patterns that preserve, conserve, and restore biodiversity, and how this can be scaled up to buffer and serve rapidly-growing urban areas in biodiverse regions from the impacts of climate change. An interactive digital platform will survey the challenges faced in practice by attendees and cluster then into small common-interest groups for discussions of how risk mapping might help accelerate and prioritize problem solving in their respective contexts.
Organized by: UN-Habitat + McHarg Center at University of Pennsylvania
