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13 JUN 2023: Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos participitation in the IPCC's National focal point for Greece ,in the Second Forum of the Mission adaptation to climate change
Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos participated, as the IPCC's National focal point for Greece ,in the Second Forum of the Mission adaptation to climate change , held in Blekinge, Sweden :
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22 MAY 2023 - 24 MAY 2023 : 9th International Conference on Meteorology and Climatology of the Mediterranean
Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos participated in the 9th International Conference on Meteorology and Climatology of the Mediterranean (MetMed), held in Genoa (Italy), presenting two posters:
- Climate indices and return period analysis to assess the long-term impact of climate change on olive crops in Peloponnese, Greece
- Μicro-climate assessment of pilot areas through an installed meteorological network on Andros Island, Greece
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23 JAN 2023: Lecture by Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos , regarding Climate change impacts in Agriculture
Lecture by Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos , regarding Climate change impacts in Agriculture , to a Canadian group of adult students within the Rural Ontario Institute's Agricultural Leadership Program'' (Athens).
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19 OCT 2022 - 21 OCT 2022 : Climate Change projections for the Region of Western Macedonia
Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos participated in the 3-days workshop for Adaptation of climate change in the Region of Western Macedonia on the framework of LIFE-IP AdaptInGR project. Dr. Giannakopoulos had an oral presentation titled : Climate Change projections for the Region of Western Macedonia
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03 SEP 2022: Climate Change - Causes - Consequences -Municipal Measures and Plans to Reduce Carbon Emissions
Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos was one of the speakers in the 2-days conference of the PINDOS NETWORK, on the topic: "Climate Change - Causes - Consequences -Municipal Measures and Plans to Reduce Carbon Emissions" ,September 2, 3 and 4, 2022, Pyli, Trikala, Greece . Dr. Giannakopoulos' speech was titled : Climate Change, extreme phenomena and impacts on Mountainous Central Greece.
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15 JUN 2022: Climate Change and Cultural Heritage
Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos was one of the speakers in the webinar titled Climate Change and Cultural Heritage organised by the Ministry of Culture and Sports in the frame of the cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries.
Webinar in Greek language Webinar in English language
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27 MAY 2022 - 28 MAY 2022 : Climate Crisis, Biodiversity and Forest Ecosystems
Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos was one of the main speakers in the 2days event titled Climate Crisis, Biodiversity and Forest Ecosystems organised by the Association of Administrative Judges and held in Edipsos, Evia,Greece
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19 MAY 2022: MED-GOLD General Assembly 2022
MED-GOLD General Assembly 2022 Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos held, with the other MED-GOLD partners, the project’s final General Assembly on 19-20 May 2022 at the headquarters of CREA in Rome, Italy. The discussions focused on the lessons learnt during the project, the legacy of the climate services developed for agriculture and on future collaborations
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01 APR 2022: Christos Giannakopoulos was a participant in the opening events for the “Weather Engines” exhibition
Christos Giannakopoulos was a participant in the opening events for the “Weather Engines” exhibition in ONASSIS STEGI (Athens, Greece). “Weather Engines” explores the poetics, politics, and technologies of the environment from the ground to the sky, and from soil to atmosphere.
A talk, titled “What’s with the weather?”, on climate change, extreme events and their impact by Christos Giannakopoulos (National Observatory of ATHENS) Response and discussion with writer and artist James Bridle (Aegina)
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
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