MIT Urban Risk Lab at Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems workshop at MIT

October 6, 2022

Mayank Ojha, research associate at the MIT Urban Risk Lab, presented at the Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems workshop at MIT on October 6, 2022, during the session on "Climate, Life, Earth and Planet Systems". The topic of the presentation was "Localizing Climate Impacts for Sustainable Strategies". Ojha discussed the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, their disproportionate impact on vulnerable communities and the challenges they face in understanding and planning for future risks. He highlighted the need for more high-resolution data and better communication of information from climate science projections to enable these communities to participate in planning for near and long-term action. As part of the MIT Climate Grand Challenge, the Urban Risk Lab is working with communities to map local "consequence thresholds" and use this information to inform climate science projections and support collective planning and decision-making.