UNFCCC expert meeting on socio-economic information under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
10 to 12 March 2008

Introduction and overview

The SBSTA requested the secretariat to organize, under the guidance of the Chair of SBSTA, an expert meeting, before its twenty-eighth session, on ways and means to improve the integration of socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments, including as they relate to adaptation planning. The SBSTA requested the secretariat to take into into account information and views from Parties and relevant organizations on matters relating to the availability of information on the socio-economic aspects of climate change and improving the integration of socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments, including information on the development of socio-economic scenarios and for understanding adaptive capacity, including:

Existing approaches and available data
Needs, gaps, barriers and constraints
Ways and means to improve availability and access to relevant information, including information on costs and benefits, as well as its better integration into impact and vulnerability assessments

pdf-icon Final agenda (147 kB)

pdf-icon Background paper (192 kB)

Report on the expert meeting

International Institute for Sustainable Development - IISD coverage of the meeting

Submissions from Parties and organizations

FCCC/SBSTA/2007/MISC.21 and Add.1
Information and views on socio-economic information. Submissions from Parties.

FCCC/SBSTA/2007/MISC.22
Information and views on socio-economic information. Submissions from relevant organizations.

Submissions from admitted non-governmental organizations

Presentations

Introduction and overview

Presenter	Organization	Subject
Mr. Youssef Nassef	UNFCCC secretariat	Recent, ongoing and expected developments on adaptation under the UNFCCC (33 kB)
Mr. Festus Luboyera	UNFCCC secretariat	The Nairobi work programme and socio-economic information (40 kB)
Mr. Hugh Pitcher	IPCC Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis (TGICA)	Overview on socio-economic information (338 kB) in the context of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to the climate change

Stocktaking on what socio-economic information and approaches are available and in use

At different spatial scales

Presenter	Organization	Subject
Mr. Alex de Sherbinin	Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)	Regional scale (1124 kB)
Mr. Ainun Nishat	The World Conservation Union - IUCN	National Scale (379 kB)
Mr. Pradeep Kurukulasuriya	United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)	Local scale (172 kB)

In different sectors and systems

Presenter	Organization	Subject
Mr. Emil A. Cherrington	Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC)	Water resources (8245 kB)
Mr. Albert Binger	Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC)	Agriculture and food security (207 kB)
Mr. Hans-Martin Füssel	Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)	Health (1777 kB)
Mr. Espen Ronneberg	Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)	Coastal zones (265 kB)
Mr. Peter Poschen	International Labour Organization (ILO)	Employment and incomes (210 kB)

Ways and means to improve availability, accessibility and effectiveness of information on socio-economic aspects of climate change

Presenter	Party/ Organization	Subject
Ms. Heather McGray	World Resources Institute (WRI)	Framing socio-economic data priorities for impact and vulnerability assessments (68 kB)
Mr. Alex de Sherbinin	Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)	Gaps and needs - an information provider perspective (460 kB)
Ms. Malgosia Madajewicz	International Research Institute for Climate and Society	Information needs and gaps for assessing progress on adaptation (49 kB)
Ms. Pasha Carruthers	Cook Islands	Gaps and needs - a user perspective (918 kB)
Mr. Ken Johm	African Development Bank	Current gaps and needs of information on socio-economic aspects of climate change from the perspective of the information user (391 kB)

Integrating socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments

Presenter	Party/ Organization	Subject
Ms. Fernanda Zermoglio	Stockholm Environment Institute	Integrating socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments (744 kB)
Mr. Lawrence Flint	Environnement et développement du tiers-monde (ENDA-TM)	Integrating socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments (657 kB)
Ms. Martha Yvette de Aguilar	El Salvador	Experience from El Salvador (443 kB)
Ms. Maggie Opondo	Kenya	Experience from Kenya (200 kB)

Discussions and recommendations

On ways and means to improve availability, accessibility and effectiveness of information on socio-economic aspects of climate change

Group 1 on the provider perspective (231 kB) facilitated by Ms. Sharon Hutchinson, Trinidad and Tobago
Group 2 on the user perspective (31 kB) facilitated by Ms. Beth Lavender, Canada

On integrating socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments

Group 1 (53 kB) facilitated by Ms. Heather McGray, WRI
Group 2 (31 kB) facilitated by Mr. Lawrence Flint, ENDA-TM

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