Conference on Asia Pacific Climate Risk and Adaptation
While many solutions to climate change problems take long periods of time to work, many of the Asia Pacific region’s problems need to be addressed now. The Asia Pacific Climate Risk and Adaptation Conference, to be held between May 26 and 29 in Beijing, China, intends to explore these questions. The conference will bring together different minds, experiences, and perspectives to exchange ideas and brainstorm solutions.
| What | Conference, Asia |
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| When |
May 26, 2008 11:00 AM
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May 29, 2008 07:00 PM |
| Where | Beijing, PR China |
| Contact Name | Paul Chan |
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The mission of the conference is to:
- Inform stakeholders on the impacts of climate change on Asia Pacific regions and the regions’ vulnerabilities (population, agriculture/food supply, infrastructure, natural environment, economics) to climate-change induced hazards (e.g., droughts, floods)
- Develop long-term regional and subregional cooperative efforts to apply risk management of these hazards to reduce vulnerability and improve adaptive capacity and to consider regional climate change to guide future development of infrastructure and economic activity
The conference program will be developed from the following themes:
- Current and emerging regional climate hazards and their impact
- Lessons from recent hazards and adaptation strategies (e.g., earthquake, tsunami, tropical cyclones, droughts, inundation)
- Vulnerable sectors and how they are vulnerable (e.g., population, public health, economic activities, infrastructure, natural environment) to natural hazards
- How to reduce vulnerabilities through adaptation and to use climate information for decision making
- Costs and benefits of adaptation
- Developing regional and subregional cooperation for adaptation (e.g., regional cooperatives like the Mekong River Commission
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