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
Background paper
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
Stocktaking on what socio-economic information and approaches are available and in use
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Presenter
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Organization
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Subject
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Mr. Alex de Sherbinin
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Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
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Regional scale
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Mr. Ainun Nishat
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The World Conservation Union - IUCN
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National Scale
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Mr. Pradeep Kurukulasuriya
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Local scale
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Presenter
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Organization
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Subject
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Mr. Emil A. Cherrington
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Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC)
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Water resources
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Mr. Albert Binger
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Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC)
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Agriculture and food security
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Mr. Hans-Martin Füssel
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
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Health
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Mr. Espen Ronneberg
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Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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Coastal zones
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Mr. Peter Poschen
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International Labour Organization (ILO)
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Employment and incomes
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Ways and means to improve availability, accessibility and effectiveness of information on socio-economic aspects of climate change
Integrating socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments
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 facilitated by Ms. Sharon Hutchinson, Trinidad and Tobago
Group 2 on the user perspective facilitated by Ms. Beth Lavender, Canada