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10Mar2008
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13Mar2008
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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:
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Existing approaches and available data
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Needs, gaps, barriers and constraints
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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
Final agenda (147 kB)
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
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Presenter |
Organization |
Subject |
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Mr. Youssef Nassef |
UNFCCC secretariat |
Recent, ongoing and expected developments on adaptation under the UNFCCC (33 kB) |
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Mr. Festus Luboyera |
UNFCCC secretariat |
The Nairobi work programme and socio-economic information (40 kB) |
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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
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At different spatial scales
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Presenter |
Organization |
Subject |
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Mr. Alex de Sherbinin |
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) |
Regional scale (1124 kB) |
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Mr. Ainun Nishat |
The World Conservation Union - IUCN |
National Scale (379 kB) |
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Mr. Pradeep Kurukulasuriya |
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) |
Local scale (172 kB) |
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In different sectors and systems
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Presenter |
Organization |
Subject |
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Mr. Emil A. Cherrington |
Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC) |
Water resources (8245 kB) |
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Mr. Albert Binger |
Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) |
Agriculture and food security (207 kB) |
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Mr. Hans-Martin Füssel |
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) |
Health (1777 kB) |
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Mr. Espen Ronneberg |
Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) |
Coastal zones (265 kB) |
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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
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Presenter |
Party/ Organization |
Subject |
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Ms. Heather McGray |
World Resources Institute (WRI) |
Framing socio-economic data priorities for impact and vulnerability assessments (68 kB) |
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Mr. Alex de Sherbinin |
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) |
Gaps and needs - an information provider perspective (460 kB) |
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Ms. Malgosia Madajewicz |
International Research Institute for Climate and |
Information needs and gaps for assessing progress on adaptation (49 kB) |
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Ms. Pasha Carruthers |
Cook Islands |
Gaps and needs - a user perspective (918 kB) |
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Mr. Ken Johm |
African Development Bank |
Integrating socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments
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Presenter |
Party/ Organization |
Subject |
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Ms. Fernanda Zermoglio |
Stockholm Environment Institute |
Integrating socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments (744 kB) |
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Mr. Lawrence Flint |
Environnement et développement du tiers-monde |
Integrating socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments (657 kB) |
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Ms. Martha Yvette de Aguilar |
El Salvador |
Experience from El Salvador (443 kB) |
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Ms. Maggie Opondo |
Kenya |
Experience from Kenya (200 kB) |
Discussions and recommendations
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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