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| | Tackling the Climate Change - Urban |
| | Nexus: |
| | Will Global Warming Destroy New |
| (Embedded image moved | York |
| to file: pic04449.jpg) | 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. |
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
3:00 - 4:45 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
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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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