Investing in Climate Resilience: What Europe can learn from Israel’s DeserTech Innovation

🌐 Language: English

💶 Event free of charge

🎟️ Hosted by: DeserTech - Climate Technologies Community Israel

As climate change accelerates, more regions around the world are becoming hotter, drier and increasingly valuable to extreme weather. As such, Europe is the fastest-warming continent, warming more than twice as fast as the global average. What once considered a challenge unique to desert regions is quickly becoming a global reality.

For decades, Israel has developed breakthrough technologies designed to succeed in desert conditions, where water is scarce, temperatures are extreme, and every resource matters. Today, those innovations are helping industries and communities around the world adapt to a changing climate, from water and energy to resilient infrastructure, advanced materials, food systems, and industrial decarbonization. Technologies born in the desert are helping shape a more resilient future for the world.

On the Agenda:

17:00-17:30 - Doors Open

17:30-18:00 - Welcome and keynote about 'The State of DeserTech - Findings from a recent study about applied innovation in arid and climate-vulnerable regions'

18:00-19:00 - Resilience Under Pressure Panel: Turning Water, Energy and Infrastructure Risk into Investable Opportunities

19:00-20:00 - Networking