Climate Adaptation

This page includes a calendar of upcoming adaptation-related events. It also describes past events, and points to locations where more information can be found on the events.

Upcoming Events
8-9 October 2010: Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Social dimensions of environmental change and governance.

21-22 October 2010: Asian Adaptation Forum: held in Bangkok.

8-10 November 2010: Nordic Adaptation to Climate Change: This conference will focus on Nordic Countries and explore the links between adaptation science, practice, and policy.

Past Events
16-22 August 2010: Second International Conference on Climate, Sustainability and Development in Semi-arid Regions (ICID II), A Rio + 20 Preparatory Meeting.  This meeting was held in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.

1-3 April 2010: Workshop: Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation: Methods and Cases. This workshop was hosted by the International Forestry Resources and Institutions research initiative and the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

26-27 April 2010: Mekong Environment and Climate Symposium: This meeting covered five thematic areas – (1) Methodology and tools for protecting and adapting, (2) Environmental knowledge-sharing and updates for the Mekong, (3) Bridging environmental policy and decision makers with stakeholders, (4) Preparedness and adaptive capacity to Mekong environmental changes and climate risks, (5) Partnership and collaboration for sustainable Mekong.

29 June – 1 July 2010:Climate Change Adaptation Futures: preparing for the unavoidable impacts of climate change held in Queensland, Australia. The next conference, scheduled for 2012, will be held in Arizona.

21-27 February 2010:4th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation

18-19 February 2010: Social Dimensions of Adaptation to Climate Change held in Venice, Italy, organised by the International Centre for Climate Governance.

11-13 February 2010: Workshop: Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation: Theories and Cases. This event was hosted by the SDEP Initiative of the Department of Geography, School of Earth Society and Environment and Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

9-10 July 2009: Economics of Climate Adaptation Summit, organised by Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, to be held in Rüschlikon, Switzerland.

22-24 June 2009: Global Environmental Change and Human Security Synthesis Conference, Oslo, Norway.

16-19 June 2009: Second Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, Switzerland.

13-15 May 2009: ProVention Forum 2009: Focus on Governance, Istanbul, Turkey.

22-26 February 2009: Third International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation. This event is held every two years by  IIED, CLACC and the RING.

10-12 March 2009: International Scientific Conference on Climate Change. This event was held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

25-28 August 2008: International Conference: Adaptation of Forests and Forest Management to Changing Climate with Emphasis on Forest Health: A Review of Science, Policies, and Practices. Umeå, Sweden.

3-5 June 2008: ‘FAO High-Level Conference on World Food Security and the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy’, held in Rome.

10-13 May 2008: ‘International Workshop on Evaluating Climate Change and Development’. Egypt.

14-17 April 2008: ‘RESILIENCE 2008 – Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times. International Science and Policy Conference‘ Stockholm, Sweden.

2-4 April 2008: ‘Food Security and Environmental Change: Linking Science, Development and Policy for Adaptation‘: Oxford University, UK. This conference addressed food security, environmental change and food policy to promote wider international discussion on these issues and to progress the joint development of adaptation options.

22-23 February 2008: ‘Long-Term Policies: Governing Social-Ecological Change’. Berlin, Germany. This 2008 Berlin Conference brought together trandisciplinary research results on long-term policies from various fields, with an aim to provide opportunities to advance social-ecological research into international debates and to discuss future perspectives of this field.

7-8 February 2008: ‘Living with climate change: are there limits to adaptation?‘ London, UK. Tyndall/GECHS/University of Oslo conference focused on strategies for adapting to climate change, in particular to explore the potential barriers to adaptation that may limit the ability of societies to adapt to climate change and to identify opportunities for overcoming these barriers.

17-20 January 2008: ‘The Re-Enchantment of Nature across Disciplines: Critical Intersections of Science, Ethics, and Metaphysics‘. This conference is organised by the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, and hosted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico, in Morelia, Mexico.  Questions for the conference to address include:
(1) Does the moral story of the “spiritual,” “the intangible,” and “the sacred” in contemporary environmentalism present particular opportunities and/or dilemmas for the critical inquiry of religion, nature, and culture?
(2) What do current developments tell us about the relationship between science, religion, and environmentalism in the contemporary world?
(3) To what extent is the quest to save nature also a quest to save individual subjectivities from the presumed meaninglessness of the modern condition?
(4) Are we witnessing a renewal of eco-centric and/or religious worldviews, or did they never decline?
(5) What is the role of indigenous traditional knowledge and indigenous religions in the Western re-enchantment of nature?
(6) Does the re-enchantment of nature provide an answer to the problem of meaning?
(7) Can we conceptualize emergent relations between the ethical, the religious and the political in ways that do not fit the paradigms of disenchantment/re-enchantment?23 November 2007: The Nation Climate Change Conference in Bangkok, Thailand. This one-day event was organised by Thailand’s English-language newspaper The Nation. The programme can be found here.

Past Events 2007

3-14 December 2007: ‘The UNFCCC 13th Conference of the Parties‘. Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. Among many other things the adaptation fund was adopted. Numerous side events were held in parallel, and the schedule can be found here.

4-5 October 2007: ‘Shift in Thinking: Perspectives on Vulnerability and Hazard Assessment’. Potsdam, Germany.

12-13 September 2007: ‘International Conference Climate changes Spatial Planning (CcSP)’. The Hague, Netherlands.

10-12 September 2007: ‘UNFCCC workshop on adaptation planning and practices under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change’. Rome, Italy. (Earth Negotiations Bulletin coverage)

3-5 September 2007: ‘Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG) stocktaking meeting on the preparation and implementation of National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA)’. Bangkok, Thailand.

18-20 June 2007: UNFCCC workshop on climate related risks and extreme events under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation

5-7 June 2007: Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (Earth Negotiations Bulletin coverage)

11-13 April 2007: UNFCCC regional workshop for Asia on adaptation (Earth Negotiations Bulletin coverage)

11-12 April 2007: Sharing Climate Adaptation Tools: Improving decision-making for development (workshop report)

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