What can I still do about the climate legacy?

1 November 2022

This week is National Climate Week. In my new blog I will discuss the climate heritage. Each generation receives a legacy from the previous one: arisen through ignorance, inability, powerlessness and unwillingness. The younge...

Uniting Water, Energy and Food at the WFE summit at Expo2020 Dubai

25 May 2022

The Middle-East has specific water-energy-food challenges. Most Middle East countries are water scarce but have abundant fossil fuel reserves (e.g. Gulf Cooperation Council countries) and solar energy potential. Moreover, energy prices are often subsidized while…

Managing floods and droughts: the governance challenges

17 November 2021

Floods and drought are some of the most tangible and devastating consequences of climate change. Deltares and The World Bank organized a ‘session during the Stockholm International Water Week titled Managing Floods and Drou...

A Small window of opportunity to keep our planet liveable

23 August 2021

Roshanka Ranasinghe, Senior Specialist Deltares and IHE Delft’s Professor of Climate Change Impacts & Coastal Risk, contributed to the latest assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which ...

Olympics severely affected if next super typhoon hits Tokyo

16 June 2021

Typhoons (also known as tropical cyclones or hurricanes) are among the most destructive natural disasters worldwide. Typhoons can cause hazardous weather conditions including extreme rainfall and wind speeds, leading to coast...

People matters – Why quantifying inclusion is key to climate adaptation

7 February 2021

Climate change is expected to have major consequences for the availability and quality of water, and lead to more intense and frequent natural disasters. The impact on people with little capacity to adapt will be disastrous. ...

Dry, drier, drought – Assessing drought risks to support decision making, risk financing and disaster response

4 July 2019

Droughts are among the most far-reaching and yet some of the most elusive natural hazards to nature as well as to mankind. In recent years, countries around the world have been severely impacted by droughts that affect food s...

Safe and secure water resources for next generations

6 November 2018

The Kingdom of the Netherlands organized 26 October 2018 the ‘Arria-formula meeting’ in which UN Security Council and UN member countries discussed the links between water, peace and security, and the need for improved in...

Hidden secrets in the North Sea

19 July 2018

An expedition addressing sea-level rise, oxygen loss and microbial breakdown of methane...

Community mapping for flood modelling 2.0

5 July 2018

Dar es Salaam’s Ramani Huria 2.0 project is one of the most comprehensive community mapping projects currently ongoing. A large use case for the collected map data is improving knowledge on flood hazard, vulnerability and e...