9:00 – 10:30
Opening Ceremony
Chairs: Kyoji Sassa – ICL Secretary General and Veronica Tofani – ICL Vice President and WLF6 Secretary General
9:00 – 9:10
Opening address from the primary organizers
Nicola Casagli – ICL President and Chair of the 6th WLF
Paolo Canuti – UNESCO Chairholder prevention and sustainable mitigation of geo-hydrological hazard **
Greetings from United Nations organizations
Tshilidzi Marwala – Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations / Rector of the United Nations University *
Mami Mizutori – UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction *
Qu Dongyu – Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization FAO *
Elena Manaenkova – Deputy Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization WMO *
Lidia Brito – Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO **
Greetings from scientific organizations
Motoko Kotani – Vice-President for Science and Society of the International Science Council ISC *
Mustafa B. Shehu – President of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations WFEO *
John Ludden – President of the International Union of Geological Sciences IUGS
Chris Rizos – President of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics IUGG *
Welcome messages from host organizations in Italy
Marco Pierini – Vice Rector of Florence University
Nello Musumeci – Minister for Civil Protection *
Anna Maria Bernini – Minister of University and Research **
Gilberto Pichetto Fratin – Minister of Environment *
* video message
** written message
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 13:00
KLC2020 General Conference 2023 & High-Level Panel Discussion
Chair: John Ludden – IUGS President
Opening of the KLC2020 General Conference 2023
John Ludden – IUGS President and Chair of KLC2020 General Conference 2023
Signing ceremony of new KLC2020 signatories
Kyoji Sassa – Secretary General of KLC2020
Introduction of new KLC2020 partners:
Zhimin Wu – Director, Forestry Division at FAO
John Ludden – President, International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)
Fawu Wang – Professor, Tongji University, China
Jian Guo – Professor, Tsinghua University, China
Huiming Tang – Vice-President, China University of Geosciences, China *
Rajendra Ratnoo – Director, National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), India
Kaoru Takara – President, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Japan *
Taichi Minamitani – Director, Disaster Risk Reduction Team 1, Global Environment Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Japan **
Shinji Sassa – Head, Soil Dynamics Group, National Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology, Japan
Katsuo Sasahara – Professor, Kochi University, Japan *
Ryosuke Seko – Director, Chuo Kaihatu Cooperation, Japan
Yoshiyuki Yagiura – President, Kiso-Jiban Consultants Co., Ltd., Japan ***
Julijana Bojadjieva – Macedonian Association for Geotechnics, North Macedonia
Jagath Gunatilake – Director, Engineering Geology Research Group (EGRG), University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Jonathan Chambers – United Kingdom Research and Innovation as represented by the British Geological Survey, UK
Beena Ajmera – Iowa State University, USA
High-Level Panel discussion “KLC2020 Review and way forward”
Chairs: Matjaž Mikoš and Qunli Han – Global Promotion Committee of IPL and KLC2020
Panelists from KLC2020 partners:
Thomas Hofer – Senior Forestry Officer at FAO
Yuki Matsuoka – Head UNDRR office in Japan
Soichiro Yasukawa – Chief of Disaster Risk Reduction Unit at UNESCO
Satoru Nishikawa – International Institute of Disaster Science
Alexander Rudloff – Secretary General of IUGG
Hiroshi Kitazato – Treasurer of IUGS
Fabrizio Curcio – Department of Civil Protection Italian Government
Stefano Laporta – ISPRA, Geological Survey of Italy
Nicola Casagli – ICL President and Chair of the 6th WLF
Explanation of the Florence Declaration
Adoption of the Florence Declaration on Landslide Risk Reduction
John Ludden – IUGS President and Chair of KLC2020 General Conference 2023
Joint photo of the panelists and the new KLC2020 signatories
* represented by Kyoji Sassa
** represented by Satoru Nishikawa
*** represented by Kazuo Konagai
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch BREAK
14:00 – 16:00
WLF6 Plenary lectures
Chairs: Fausto Guzzetti – National Research Council and Vít Vilímek – ICL Vice-President
Olivier Dewitte – Royal Museum for Central Africa
Landslides in tropical environments: insight from the East African Rift
Xuanmei Fan – Chengdu University of Technology
Mechanisms and prediction of earthquake and climate change induced cascading hazards
Jonathan Godt – USGS
New US National Strategy for Landslide Loss Reduction
Giovanni B. Crosta – Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
Landslides impact on structures and infrastructures
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00
Recognition and Awards Ceremony
Chairs: Peter Bobrowsky – Chair IPL Awards Committee and Irasema Alcántara Ayala – Chair IPL Evaluation Committee
World Centers of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction
- Institute of Cold Regions Science and Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, China
- Croatian Landslide Group, Croatia
- Charles University, Czech Republic
- National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), India
- Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, India
- Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
- University of Calabria (UNICAL), Italy
- UNESCO Chair on Prevention and Sustainable Management of Geo-Hydrological Hazards, University of Florence, Italy
- CERI – Centre for Research on Prediction, Prevention, and Mitigation of Geological Risks, Italy
- Institute of Geography, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
- JSC “Hydroproject Institute”, Russia
- Laboratory of Engineering Geodynamics, Department of Engineering and Ecological Geology, Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Russia
- University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mining and Geology, Belgrade, Serbia
- University of Ljubljana -Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering (UL FGG) and the UNESCO Chair on Water-related Disaster Risk Reduction (WR DRR), Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Engineering Geology Research Group (EGRG), Department of Geology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
- British Geological Survey, U.K.
Varnes Medals
Charles Ng – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – 2022 Medal
Edward N. Bromhead – formerly Kingston University UK – 2022 Medal
Irasema Alcántara-Ayala – National Autonomous University of Mexico – 2023 Medal
IPL-KLC Award for Success
Maneesha V. Ramesh – 2021-2023 Award
Hiroshi Fukuoka IPL Award
Oldrich Hungr Awards
Clarence Choi – University of Hong Kong – 2022 Award
Tommaso Carlà – University of Florence – 2023 Award
18:00-19:00
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Parallel Sessions and closing plenary session
Discover all the Parallel Sessions on November 15th, 16th and 17th and the Closing Plenary Session on November 17th.