Invite you to a presentation
Tackling the Climate Change - Urban Nexus: Will Global Warming Destroy New York
or will Jake Gyllenhaal rescue it again?
Or if not Mr. Gyllenhaal, perhaps Ms. Cynthia Rosenzweig from NASA will. Ms
Rosenzweig has conducted a pioneering study of climate change impacts and
adaptation in the New York Metropolitan region. Dubbed the "Metro East Coast
(MEC) Regional Assessment" this study assessed how a major urban area is
affected by climate variability and change. Seven sector studies form the core
of the interacting elements: Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Infrastructure,
Wetlands, Water Supply, Public Health, Energy Demand, and Institutional
Decision-Making. The MEC Assessment has spurred Mayor Bloomberg and NYC
management in adopting and implementing a climate change adaptation strategy for
New York. Ms Rosenzweig, who has also served on the Nobel-winning IPCC, led the
MEC assessment, and will discuss the methodology, lessons learned, and role of
the IPCC in focusing on urban-level impacts.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
3:00 - 4:45 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
For non bank staff, please RSVP to infoShopevents@worldbank.org
PRESENTED BY
Cynthia Rosenzweig
Head, Climate Impacts Group, NASA
Ms. Cynthia Rosenzweig heads the Climate Impacts Group at NASA?s Goddard
Institute of Space Studies, whose mission is to investigate the interactions of
climate on systems and sectors important to human well-being. Ms. Rosenzweig has
organized and led large-scale interdisciplinary regional, national, and
international studies of climate change impacts and adaptation. She is a
Coordinating Lead Author of the chapter on observed changes for the
Nobel-winning IPCC Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report, and served on the
IPCC Task Group on Data and Scenarios for Impact and Climate Assessment. Ms.
Rosenzweig's research involves the development of interdisciplinary
methodologies by which to assess the potential impacts of and adaptations to
global environmental change. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she has
joined impact models with global and regional climate models to predict future
outcomes of both land-based and urban systems under altered climate conditions.
DISCUSSED BY
Eric Schwartz
Executive Director, Connect US Fund.
Prior to joining the Fund, Eric Schwartz served as UN Secretary-General Kofi
Annan's Deputy Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery. Among other positions, he
served as a lead expert for the congressionally mandated Mitchell-Gingrich Task
Force on United Nations Reform, second-ranking official at the Office of the UN
High Commissioner for Human Rights, and a member of the US National Security
Council staff with responsibilities for a range of UN, peacekeeping,
humanitarian, and refugee issues. He has held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson
Center, the US Institute of Peace and the Council on Foreign Relations, and was
a contributor to the Responsibility to Protect Project of the International
Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty.
Zmarak Shalizi
Former Senior Manager, World Bank.
Mr. Zmarak Shalizi was recently the Senior Manager for Infrastructure and
Environment Research in the Development Economics Vice Presidency at the World
Bank. In 2001 he was Director and Lead Author of the World Development Report
2003, which was presented at the World Summit of Sustainable Development in
Johannesburg in 2002. Mr. Shalizi has held numerous senior positions in the
Bank, and prior to joining the Bank, worked in private consulting and taught
courses on economics and on regional and urban planning techniques at MIT.
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. He holds degrees in physics and economics, and his doctoral
dissertation, from the University of Chicago, was on the economic impact of
global warming.
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