{"id":4312,"date":"2026-09-14T16:16:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2026-09-14T17:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:00:21","slug":"response-to-climate-change-under-the-greenport-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/news-greenport-congress\/response-to-climate-change-under-the-greenport-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to climate change under the GreenPort spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 21<sup>st<\/sup> GreenPort Congress, in common with all its predecessors, will seek to balance environmental challenges with economic demand and operational reality.<\/p>\n<p>And along with the crucial environmental ambitions explored, next month\u2019s edition will also home in on how they are facing up to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>In the session <em>Spotlighting practical action to address climate resilience, water scarcity &amp; adaptation,<\/em> the panel will discuss how ports are adapting to long-term environmental change. From resilience planning and lifecycle integration to real-world lessons from drought and adaptation projects, they will spotlight practical action for a more sustainable future.<\/p>\n<p>Moderated by Christopher Wooldridge, Science Coordinator with ECOPorts EcoSLC, the session will hear from chemical engineer Chrysanthi Kontogiourgi and Paula Sengo, Head of Studies and Planning, representing the ports of Piraeus and Lisbon respectively, Ingrid Lambert, Green Ports and Climate Resilience Consultant at Haskoning, and Maria Eduarda Medeiros, a Mechanical Engineer and Naval\u00a0Construction Technologist who will highlight the response to the ongoing Amazon drought.<\/p>\n<p>By any measure, the 21<sup>st<\/sup> GreenPort Congress \u2013 7-9 October 2026 \u2013 is one\u00a0 not to miss\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/book\/\">Secure your delegate place today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real-life resilience and adaptation is part of the solution, the Congress will hear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-greenport-congress"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4320,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}