& Europe and Central Asia Region Vice Presidency
invite you to a presentation
Adapting to Climate Change:
What Can We Actually Do?
The Experience of the UK and What We Can Learn From It
Chris West, head of the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP), will discuss his
experience working with different actors and agencies in the UK to identify
concrete approaches to adapting to climate change. He and his team at UKCIP
have been working since 2002 at making climate research useful to decision
makers. In the process, they have helped develop tools and programs for local
governments, including the city of London; for UK businesses in general, and for
builders and developers in particular; and for several other agencies.
A particularly useful contribution has been a report entitled Climate
Adaptation: Risk, Uncertainty and Decision-making that provides a step-by-step
framework to help planners, businesses, and government assess the risk posed by
climate change and work out how best to respond.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
1:30 - 3:30 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium JB1-080
701 18th Street NW
Washington, DC
Please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org
INTRODUCED BY
Pradeep Mitra
Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia Region Vice Presidency, World Bank
Prior to his current position, Mr. Mitra was Chief of country operations for
Russia during the mid 1990s and then served as Director of the Poverty Reduction
and Economic Management department in the Europe and Central Asia region at the
World Bank. He has published widely on public economics, macroeconomics, and
development economics.
PRESENTED BY
Chris West
Director, UK Climate Impacts Programme
Mr. West is the Director of UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) and a Senior
Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University. He
trained as a zoologist and joined the Natural Environment Research Council in
1991, where he worked on marine science and on international research
co-operation.
COMMENTS BY
Ko Barrett
Acting Deputy Director/Division Chief, Climate Assessments Services,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ms. Barrett is the Acting Deputy Director/Division Chief of the Climate
Assessments Services division of the United States government's National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Prior to that she was the Director of
the Climate Change Program at the U.S. Agency for International Development,
where she managed climate-related activities in more than 40 countries and
regions around the world.
Dennis Ojima
Senior Scholar, Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment
Mr. Ojima is a senior scholar at the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and
the Environment, where he is involved in the Global Change Program. He is also a
senior research scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) at
Colorado State University. His research areas include global change effects on
ecosystem dynamics, and adaptation and mitigation strategies to climate change.
He was among the IPCC set of contributors awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
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About UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP)
UKCIP helps organizations assess how they might be affected by climate change,
so they can prepare for its impacts. It was set up by the British Government in
1997 and is based at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment. It works
by promoting stakeholder-led impact research and developing a range of common
tools and datasets to help organizations adapt to the impacts of unavoidable
climate change. These tools and reports discussing challenges of and
methodologies for coping with climate change are available at:
http://www.ukcip.org.uk/resources/
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