João Dinis

João Dinis (Geographer) has been developing climate change action and sustainable development strategies through innovative approaches on spatial planning, technology and governance models for the last 15 years. By managing local strategies for climate change, partnerships and stakeholders are brought in a multi-specialist and multi-institutional approach to develop a roadmap towards a resilient future. This resulted in a frontrunning experience which led to the implementation of over 40 climate actions in the last 5 years for the city of Cascais, the development of monitoring and digital tools which help both citizens and risk related stakeholders, nature-based solutions which significantly contributed to the quality of life of citizens and also for smooth mobility solutions, governance models with established processes and a comprehensive set of communication tools aiming towards environmental awareness for all socio-demographic target audiences. This integrated approach has also been leveraged by an extensive and broad experience in leading pilot cases for EU financed projects (Horizon 2020/Europe, EEA Grants and FP7) as well as Portuguese funding (Environmental Fund, POSEUR program) with over 20 financed projects in the last decade alone.