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Wednesday 03 December
ADAPTATION & MITIGATION |
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| 13:00-13:15
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Opening Remarks
Adam Bumpus, Programme Coordinator
Responding the Climate Change (RTCC)
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| 13:15-13:30
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Adaptation and Mitigation
Saleemul Huq, Director, Climate Change Programme
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Adaptation and Mitigation are two possible response options
to the problem of human induced climate change. While Mitigation deals with the
reduction of the emissions of greenhouse gases adaptation deals with coping with
the impacts of human induced climate change. In the last ten years or so of the
UNFCCC negotiations the focus has been almost exclusively on mitigation (in order
to prevent the problem from getting too big) but in recent years (specially since
COP7 in Marrakech and COP8 in Delhi) the issue of Adaptation as an important
response option has been highlighted (specially by the developing countries-e.g.
in the Delhi Declaration at COP8). The discussion will bring out some of the
aspects of similarities and differences between Adaptation and Mitigation as
response options to the climate change problem. |
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13:30-13:45
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Vulnerability to Climate change - Priorizing Adaptation. Policy
Options in Peru and the Andean region
Valetin Barta,
´Instituto Lex Terrae´, Lima, Perú
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| 13:45-14:00
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Climate change and the challenges for the water and wastewater sector
Jacob Tompkins, Head of Policy
Water UK
Climate change is the most important issue facing the water
sector. This presentation outlines the impacts that the sector is already facing
and details how operators are factoring climate change into their future plans.
The presentation also discusses how the sector contributes to climate change
and how this can be mitigated. |
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| 14:15-14:30
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Mitigation through communication
Sarah Peake, Publications Editor
Responding to Climate Change (RTCC)
One of the barriers to dealing with climate change and its
associated impacts has been a lack of information and poor communication. Responding
to Climate Change (RTCC) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting
effective actions to mitigate, and adapt to, the effects of global climatic change.
The responses of a broad range of stakeholders to the climate challenge are communicated
through various media, in the context of the COP meetings (and more broadly)
with a view to finding workable solutions for all. |
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| 14:45-15:00
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Adaptation of water resources management to climate change
Brett Orlando, Policy Advisor on Climate Change
IUCN - The World Conservation Union
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