"Adapting to the Changing Climate in the Bank on Climate Change" discussed in the InfoShop on Wednesday, January 9 at 3:30pm in Preston Auditorium

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& Sustainable Development in East Asia & Pacific

*ADDITIONAL PANELIST* Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development

Adapting to the Changing Climate in the Bank on Climate Change

Curious about the buzz surrounding climate change talk? Just can?t get away from
it, can you? Wondering what all the talk on climate change impact, mitigation,
and adaptation means?

If you have pondered over these issues then you are invited to come hear
Professor Robert Mendelsohn from Yale University, who will share his thoughts on
climate change impacts and adaptation. He is a leading authority on the
economics of climate change and policy. Over the last decade, he has developed
insightful techniques for measuring the impacts from climate change that capture
adaptation. Results of his research have been used to calibrate global impact
models that predict the consequences of various climate scenarios. This research
finds that climate change will hit low latitude countries especially hard but
the net harmful effects of climate change will only become evident in the second
half of this century.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
3:30 - 5:15 pm
Due to high demand, please arrive 10 minutes early. The event will start
promptly at 3:30pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium JB1-080

Please RSVP TO infoShopevents@worldbank.org

PRESENTED BY
Robert Mendelsohn
Professor of Economics, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale
University
Mr. Mendelsohn holds dual appointments at the Yale School of Forestry and
Environmental Sciences, and the Yale School of Management. His area of interest
is resource economics, with special emphasis in valuing the environment. Over
the last decade, he has been involved in measuring the impacts from climate
change. Mr. Mendelsohn has also worked on valuing natural ecosystems, from
valuing nontimber forest products and ecotourism in tropical rainforests, to
coral reefs in the Caribbean and Australia, to measuring recreation in the
Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

DISCUSSED BY
Nancy Birdsall
President, Center for Global Development
Ms. Birdsall is the founding president of the Center for Global Development.
Prior to launching the center, Ms. Birdsall served for three years as Senior
Associate and Director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace. Her work at Carnegie focused on issues of globalization
and inequality, as well as on the reform of the international financial
institutions. From 1993 to 1998, Ms. Birdsall was Executive Vice-President of
the Inter-American Development Bank, the largest of the regional development
banks. Before joining the IDB, Ms. Birdsall spent 14 years in research, policy,
and management positions at the World Bank, most recently as Director of the
Policy Research Department.

Shanta Devarajan
Chief Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank
Mr. Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank?s South Asia Region, and
also maintains a popular web blog open to public opinion:
"http://endpovertyinsouthasia.worldbank.org/". Since joining the World Bank in
1991, he has been a Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public
Economics in the Development Research Group, as well as the Chief Economist of
the Human Development Network. He was the Director of the World Development
Report 2004, Making Services Work for Poor People. Before 1991, he was on the
faculty of Harvard University?s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Shantayanan Devarajan's research covers public economics, trade policy, natural
resources and the environment, and general-equilibrium modeling of developing
countries.

Homi Kharas
Senior Fellow, Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings Institution
Mr. Kharas is a Senior Fellow at the Wolfensohn Center for Development at
Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. He is a member of the Working Group
for the Commission on Growth and Development, chaired by Michael Spence.
Previously, Mr. Kharas served as Chief Economist for the World Bank?s East Asia
and Pacific region, and as Director for Poverty Reduction and Economic
Management, Finance and Private Sector Development, responsible for the Bank?s
advice on structural and economic policies, fiscal issues, debt, trade,
governance and financial markets. In 1990-91, he was a Senior Partner with Jeff
Sachs and Associates, advising governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet
Union on transition. His research interests are now focused on global trends,
East Asian growth and development, and international aid for the poorest
countries.

MODERATED BY
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist, World Bank
Prior to joining the East Asia and Pacific Sustainable Development Department of
the Bank, Mr. Sanghi worked on development topics ranging from infrastructure
and climate change to microfinance and agricultural economics. He has also
worked in private sector consulting, for the Thailand Development Research
Institute, a non-profit think-tank, and has held teaching and research positions
at the University of Chicago, Thammasat University in Bangkok, and Yale
University. His research has focused on the economic impact of global warming in
Brazil and India.
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