Piet Dircke on LinkedIn: Passionately creating awareness for inclusive, nature based urban climate… (2024)

What a week in Singapore!Looking back at a fantastic week in Singapore at the Singapore International Water Week (SIWW), discussing how we can make cities more climate resilient, and how we can better protect our coasts against the impacts climate change and sea level rise. But equally important: meeting old friends from around the world, and making new friends! Henk Ovink Laurian Farrell Matthijs Bouw David Erdman Prof. (Dr) Anusha Shah Marc Walraven Andy Batchelor Meike van Ginneken Tom Kendall Astrid Seegers Jane McKee Smith Vera Konings Ruud den Haak Ylva Veldhuis

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Climate adaptation and water resilience in cities: we need to do more and better - and yes, we can!This was the powerful message of our communique, from our workshop at the Singapore International Water Week (SIWW). Led by lead by Tony Wong, our team inspired a professional capacity -plus crowd to deliver the key message to all urban leaders at the conference and worldwide, that we need more well planned, integrated, holistic, inclusive, nature based and financially and socially equitable urban climate resilience! Arcadis Dr Mark Fletcher FREng Pritha Hariram Khoo Hazel Prof. (Dr) Anusha Shah Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Laurian Farrell David Erdman Sarah Hiong

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Today I participated in the Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) Hot Issues Workshop on Climate Adaptation and Urban Water Resilience, for a capacity crowd of about 150 people. A good start of an exciting week!

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I was proud to witness the kickstart, last week in Rotterdam, of the new Arcadis Global Climate Adaptation Team, energetically led with confidence and inspiration, by our new Global Director Roni Deitz, PE. Happy to see so many young, familiar faces, including several of my former "wing pilots"! It is time for the next generation to step up and battle the global impacts of climate change. Just turned 65 years old, the right moment for me to take a step back and give the floor to Roni as my successor. But I am not gone! In my new role as global advisor, I will now have more time to support Roni and Team, as well as our partners and clients, to come up with smarter, more sustainable, more resilient, more nature based and equitable climate adaptation solutions.

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Leading by example for tomorrow's UN World Water Day's motto: "Water for Peace"!I am proud to read the stories of our brave former Arcadis colleague Nynke Schaap, who left us 2 years ago, when she decided to follow her passion: connecting her water expertise to bring relief & peace to regions and communities in need. First with Cordaid, in Iraq, South Sudan and Yemen, and now with PAX for peace in Iraq. One year after the UN Water Conference in NYC, and one day ahead of United Nations World Water Day, she is a role model for us all, bringing the "Water for Peace" motto to action. This water world needs more Nynkes!https://lnkd.in/duvJBHeV

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Waterwerken zijn in orde, maar over de rest hebben we niet goed nagedachtzo vervolgde BNR Nieuwsradio het nieuws item met mij over klimaatadaptie van afgelopen week. Een prikkelende kop die aangeeft dat Nederland met het Deltaplan en het vervolg, Ruimte voor de Rivier en Maaswerken, onze waterschapswerken en waterwerken langs onze kust en in steden het prima op orde heeft, zoals recente hoogwaters aantoonden. Maar ook dat we als samenleving het hier niet bij kunnen laten, we zullen meer "resilient" moeten worden, robuuster, tegen een stootje kunnen, als er eens water op straat staat, het OV niet rijdt, de stroom uitvalt of een weg wordt afgesloten. Ook moeten we onze vitale infrastructuur, zoals ziekenhuizen, beter beschermen. Die moeten altijd veilig, toegankelijk en inzetbaar zijn, wat er ook gebeurd. Prepare for the unknown! https://lnkd.in/ef7a8EfP

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