Podcasts
Episode 1. From Burning to Blooming: CARMINE's work at the University of Birmingham
How can the city of Birmingham shift from avoiding extreme heat, with 40° temperatures and burning in the air at Lickey Hills, to becoming a climate-resilient UK Nature City filled with big strong trees, all while mitigating their flood risk?
On this first episode of the CARMINE podcast, Stephen Flynn (United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network – SDSN) hears from Emma Ferranti, Associate Professor in Civil Engineering (University of Birmingham) about all the work being done to make Birmingham more resilient to future climate.
Episode 2. Fighting Fire with Fire: Preparing Barcelona for a hotter future
We can’t predict the future with certainty—but we can better understand the conditions that make catastrophic wildfires more likely, and even anticipate how a fire could spread across a landscape.
In this episode of the CARMINE podcast, Stephen Flynn (United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network – SDSN) speaks with Eleftheria Exarchou (Mitiga Solutions) and Guillem Canaleta (Pau Costa Foundation) from the Barcelona case study area about how scientists and practitioners are combining climate modelling, digital twins, local knowledge and nature-based solutions to help the Barcelona metropolitan area prepare for a hotter, drier future. From prescribed burning and grazing to machine learning and stakeholder-led Living Labs, they explore how understanding tomorrow’s risks can help communities make better decisions today.