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  1. 41. 19 OCT 2023: Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos was one of the Keynote speakers, in the PanCypriot conference ''Is Climate Change a threat to Tourism ?''

    Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos was one of the Keynote speakers, in the PanCypriot conference ''Is Climate Change a threat to Tourism ?'', held on October 19 in Nicosia, Cyprus under the auspices of the President of the Republic of Cyprus Mr. Nikos Christodoulidis.
    Title of the speech: Climate Change Impacts on Tourism.
    In the framework of the PanCypriot conference, Dr. C. Giannakopoulos gave a radio interview at the Cyprus News Digest program about tourism and sustainability.


  2. 42. 18 OCT 2023 - 20 OCT 2023 : Giannis Lemesios and Tim van der Schriek , from the CLIMADAPT team, attended the kick off meeting of LIFE MareNatura Project

    Giannis Lemesios and Tim van der Schriek , from the CLIMADAPT team, attended the kick off meeting of LIFE MareNatura Project (Conservation of priority species of marine megafauna in Greece and Italy), which took place in HCMR quarters ‘’Thalassokosmos’’ in Crete, Greece. The CLIMADAPT research team made 2 presentations about the NOA institute, our group and our activities related to Climate change models and their use in the LIFE MareNatura project.


  3. 43. 02 OCT 2023 - 05 OCT 2023 : Tim van der Schriek , from the CLIMADAPT team, attended and presented our results at the final workshop of the MediterRE3 Project

    Tim van der Schriek , from the CLIMADAPT team, attended and presented our results at the final workshop of the MediterRE3 Project (REstoring REsilience of Mediterranean landscapes to REduce GHG emissions from wildfires). The CLIMADAPT research group developed a statistical modelling approach to estimate future Burnt Area and Greenhouse Gas emissions associated with wildfires under future climate scenarios. The workshop took place in the Luberon National Park (France). For a detailed explanation of the project and its results, see here


  4. 44. 26 SEP 2023 - 27 SEP 2023 : Tim van der Schriek was one of the Keynote speakers at the international conference “The importance of wetlands”

    Tim van der Schriek , from the CLIMADAPT team, was one of the Keynote speakers at the international conference “The importance of wetlands”, that took place 26-27 September 2023 in Pyli (Prespa), organized by NECCA (Natural Environment & Climate Change Agency of Greece). The invited key-note presentation titled as “The impact of climate change on the water level of the Prespa Lakes: observations and future projections” presented at SESSION 2: Wetlands in the context of Climate Change.


  5. 45. 03 SEP 2023 - 08 SEP 2023 : Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos and Gianna Kitsara, from CLIMADAPT team,participated in the EMS (European Meteorological Society) Annual Meeting 2023

    Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos and Gianna Kitsara, from CLIMADAPT team,participated in the EMS (European Meteorological Society) Annual Meeting 2023 - European Conference for Applied Meteorology and Climatology, which took place at the University of Economics Bratislava (EUBA), Slovakia, from 3 to 8 September 2023. CLIMADAPT team had 2 oral presentations titled as: Implementation of Climate Change adaptation strategies in lake-wetland management and agriculture in the Prespa National Park (Greece) and Climate-Resilient Urban Regeneration: Transforming School Yards for a Sustainable and Adaptive Future in the framework of the LIFE Prespa Waterbirds and LIFE-IP AdaptInGR projects , respectively.

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  6. 46. 14 AUG 2023: Comments by Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung

    Comments by Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung regarding the summer wildfires on the island of Rhodes


  7. 47. 25 JUL 2023 - 28 JUL 2023 : Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos participated, as the IPCC's focal point for Greece ,in the Fifty-ninth Session of the IPCC (IPCC-59)

    Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos participated, as the IPCC's focal point for Greece ,in the Fifty-ninth Session of the IPCC (IPCC-59) ,which took place at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya, from 25 to 28 July 2023. The main agenda item of the Fifty-ninth Session of the IPCC was the election of the IPCC Chair, members of the IPCC Bureau and the Task Force Bureau (TFB) of the seventh assessment cycle

    Ch. Giannakopoulos with
    the Greek Ambassador in Kenya IPCC-59
    Ch. Giannakopoulos in the
    59th Session of the IPCC
    		 Voting badge of Greece
    for the IPCC's elections


  8. 48. 24 JUL 2023: Comments by Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos in Kathimerini newspaper

    Comments by Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos in Kathimerini newspaper, regarding forest fires and their link to climate change, with reference to the results of a scientific paper.


  9. 49. 05 JUL 2023 - 07 JUL 2023 : 3-days workshop for Climate Change Adaptation in the Region of North Aegean

    Gianna Kitsara and Giannis Lemesios, from CLIMADAPT team, participated in the 3-days workshop for Climate Change Adaptation in the Region of North Aegean , held on the islands of Lesvos, Chios and Samos in the framework of LIFE-IP AdaptInGR project . CLIMADAPT team had 2 oral presentations titled as: 'Climate Change projections in the Region of North Aegean' and 'Online tools and use of climate indices'

     


  10. 50. 19 JUN 2023 - 21 JUN 2023 : Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos participated in the 6th European Climate Change Adaptation Conference 2023 (ECCA 2023)

    Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos participated in the 6th European Climate Change Adaptation Conference 2023 (ECCA 2023) , held in Dublin (Ireland), presenting a poster  Ecca Poster 2023






TV/Radio Interviews
  • Rethink: Summer Holidays on BBC Radio 4 in the UK (live at 8pm ,2025-06-30). Dr Christos Giannakopoulos had an insightful conversation with the BBC radio presenter Ben Ansell, an Oxford University professor, about overtourism, climate change and the pressures of the traditional "summer holiday" model with a particular interest in Mediteranean destinations, which are affected by many of these issues. Dr Christos Giannakopoulos talked about the challenges of climate change for Greek tourism, about how the tourist economy is changing to get around the twin pressures of climate change (heat stress, energy for cooling) and overtourism, and about what Greek tourism might look like in 30 years time
  • Interviews of Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos in the German media, regarding the summer 2024 forest fires in Northeast Attica and their consequences, September 2004
    Audio and Podcasts in German (Link1 , Link2)
  • Interview of Dr Christos Giannakopoulos in HELLENIC PARLIAMENT TV in the frame of the CLIMACT project, 26/09/2020
  • On Sunday, November 14, 2021, Hellenic Link–Midwest presented Dr. Giannakopoulos in an online lecture titled "Climate Change, Extreme Events and Impacts for Greece in the Near and Distant Future ”. This lecture was supported by the Hellenic Foundation, Chicago.


Articles in press

  • Interview of Dr Christos Giannakopoulos in Suddeutsche Zeitung (German Newspaper), Article Title ‘’Überleben auf dem Hotspot’’, October 23, 2021
  • Article of Christos Giannakopoulos in a special issue of the newspaper ‘’Efimerida ton Syntakton’’ dedicated to Climate Change , June 2021


Newsletters

  • Six newsletters, in the frame of the MED-GOLD project, that can be found here
  • Five newsletters, in the frame of the CLIMACT project, that can be found here (2021)

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