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| | Adapting to Climate Change: |
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| pic20675.jpg) | The Experience of the UK and What We Can |
| Chris West | Learn From It |
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| | 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. |
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| | 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. |
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
1:30 - 3:30 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium JB1-080
701 18th Street NW
Washington, DC
For non bank staff, 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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