DriDanube Drought Risk in the Danube Region

Final Conference

DriDanube Final Conference, Danube Drought Conference, took place on 7-8 May 2019 in Vienna.

To emphasize importance of cooperation and joint actions in the area of drought management, the conference was co-organized together with the Drought Management Center for Southeastern Europe and the Integrated Drought Management Programme in Central and Eastern Europe.

As the programme was very enriching and offered a lot of ideas for lively discussions, you can get back to the conference presentations in this section:

Tuesday, 7 May 2019

Session 1: Opening and setting the scene

• What else needs to be said on Climate change and Drought: Future challenges - Klemen Bergant, Slovenian Environment Agency
• The path to better drought management in the Danube Region - Andreja Sušnik, DriDanube Lead Partner, Slovenian Environment Agency

Session 2: Battling drought - what have we learnt?

• Drought Watch – an online service for drought monitoring in the Danube Region - Aleš Grlj, SPACE-SI
• Slovak National Drought Action Plan - Richard Muller, Slovak Environment Agency
• New approaches and changes in drought management - Joris Bouve, Crisis Center of the Government of Flanders 
• Experiences with droughts in Alpine region - Ernst Ueberreiter, Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism, Austria

Session 3: Drought risk and cross-sectoral impacts

• Drought impact inventories: experiences and trends - Kerstin Stahl, University of Freiburg
• National reporting networks for agricultural sector - Monika Blahova, CzechGlobe
• DriDanube Drought risk assessments - Gregor Gregoric, Slovenian Environment Agency

Session 4: From preparing drought data to communicating drought

• MARKETPLACE: Existing Drought platforms and Youth poster session “New perspectives on drought”
  Drought platforms:
  DroughtWatch - www.droughtwatch.eu
  IDMP HelpDesk - www.droughtmanagement.info
  NIDIS - www.drought.gov/drought
  DMCSEE - www.dmcsee.org
  
  Youth posters:
  Wetlands - source of energy in a drought period, University of mining and geology "St. Ivan Rilski", Sofia; Milena Georgieva, Rosen Valeriev Ivanov
  Reducing drought impact on endangered RAMSAR sites using multi-criteria analysis, University of Novi Sad; Ilić Milica, Bubulj Senka
  Drought risk assessment for area of Slovenia using program RED, University of Ljubljana; Žiga Ščukov
  Drought and dry spells over Croatia, Meteorological and Hydrological Service Croatia: Ivana Marinovic

Wednesday, 8 May 2019

Session 5: Strategic planning for drought

• DriDanube Strategy - Andreja Moderc, Slovenian Environment Agency
• Drought risk management in the US - Roger Pulwarty, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  
  Strategic planning and future plans for drought mitigation - presentations and discussion live streamed
  • Laszlo Balatonyi, EU Strategy for Danube Region, Priority Area 5 - presentation
  • Edith Hoedl, International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River - presentation
  • Raimund Mair, World Bank - presentation
  • Bob Stefanski, World Meteorological Organization - presentation
  Facilitator: Roger Pulwarty, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Economic case: benefit of action / cost of inaction - Frederik Pischke, Global Water Partnership/World Meteorological Organization
• Insurance perspective on drought - Johann Fank, Die Osterreichische Hagelversicherung
• Contribution to Integrated Water Resource Management (including droughts) with Danube Transnational Programme funded projects - Csomor Gusztav, Danube Transnational Programme
  
  Drought management capacity in the region - policy level round table
  • Aniko Juhasz, Deputy State Secretariat, Ministry of Agriculture, Hungary
  • Marija Vihovanec Sabo, Senior Adviser, UNCCD focal point, Ministry of Environment and Energy, Croatia
  • Rada Cosmina Craciun, Director of the Cabinet of Minister of Environment, Romania
  • Richard Muller, Director of Slovak Environment Agency, Slovakia
  • Gordana Rokvic, Advisor to Minister, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, Republic of Srpska
  • Klemen Bergant, Director of Meteorology and Hydrology Office, Slovenian Environmental Agency
  Facilitator: Elena Mateescu, Director General of National Meteorological Administration, Romania

Conclusions

• Conclusions/Joint messages - Andreja Sušnik, DriDanube Lead Partner, Slovenian Environment Agency

We were happy to host the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Chief Scientist on Weather, Water and Climate Extremes, Roger Pulwarty, at the Danube Drought Conference. See how he summarized the conference and what he thinks that DriDanube project brings to the world!