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4Opening Plenary Session Jan Hendrik Dronkers, Rijkswaterstaat, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, Netherlands Donald Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, currently on assignment to the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President of the United States, Washington, D.C., USA Lori Tavasszy, Delft University of Technology and TNO, Delft, Netherlands Keynote Presentation 1 resilient transPort system: an ongoing and multistaKeholder resPonsibility Jan Hendrik Dronkers Jan Hendrik Dronkers discussed transport resiliency in the Netherlands. He described the role of the Rijkswaterstaat, the executive agency of the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment in the Netherlands, and highlighted examples of transport vulnerability to extreme weather events and adaptive approaches.
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5o p e n i n g p l e n a r y s e s s i o n objective to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 60% by 2050 (compared with 1990 levels)
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6 t r a n s p o r t a t i o n r e s i l i e n c e noted that the project includes reinforcing the dyke to cope with sea level rise, and, at the same time, improving opportunities for road haulage, recreation, and nature. A passage to aid fish migration has also been added.
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