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Download from the OSS Website at the Following Address: U INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE WMO UNEP _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL IPCC-XXIX/INF.2 ON CLIMATE CHANGE (20.VIII.2008) TWENTY-NINTH SESSION Agenda item: 9 Geneva, 31 August - 4 September 2008 ENGLISH ONLY PROGRESS REPORT ON OUTREACH Detailed list of activities submitted by the Technical Support Units of Working Groups 2 and 3 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ IPCC Secretariat, c/o WMO, 7bis, Avenue de la Paix, C.P. N° 2300, 1211 Geneva 2, SWITZERLAND Phone: +41 22 730 8208/8254/8284 Fax: +41 22 730 8025/8013 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.ipcc.ch WORKINGU GROUP II REPORT Outreach Activities by Participants in the IPCC Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report 27 June 2008 Name: Neil Adger Conferences and workshops: • IPCC WG2 results, University of East Anglia, Norwich 17/9/07 • Adger, W. N. (2008) Are there limits to adaptation? Opening Lecture, ‘Living with Climate Change: Are there Limits to Adaptation?’ Royal Geographical Society, London, 7-8th February. • Adger, W. N. (2007) Can we Adapt to the Climate Crisis? Inaugural Gene and Carol Willeke Frontiers in Environmental Science Distinguished Lecture, Miami University, Oxford Ohio, 7th November. • Adger, W. N. (2007) The Science of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation. Presented at the Launch Meeting of the Northern Ireland Climate Change Coalition, Stormont Assembly, Belfast, 22nd October. • Adger, W. N. (2007) Adapting to Climate Change: Governance Challenges. Presented at DFID Headquarters, London, 11th September. • Adger, W. N. (2007) Governments, responsibilities, barriers and actors in adaptation action for climate change. Presented at National Summit on Coping with Climate Change, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan, 8-10 May Name: Rais Akhtar Briefings: • After the announcement of Nobel Prize to the IPCC, Reporter of Indian Express interviewed me about the IPCC activities, and impact on India. The write up along with my profile was published on 21st October, 2007. Name: Abdelkader Allali Briefings: • Conceptualizing and preparing technical and policy documents on climate change and food security. International Expert on Climate Change under the direct supervision of the FAO Assistant Director-General and Director of the Natural Resources Management and Environment Department (NRD), and in coordination with the ad hoc Inter-Departmental Task Force on Global Challenges and its Core Group. Name: Samar Attaher Publications: • Attaher, S. M., Medany, M. A., Abdel Aziz, A.A. and El-Gindy, A.,2007, Assessment of Irrigated Agriculture Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Egypt, Proc. of the international conference on "climate change and their impacts on costal zones and River Deltas", Alexandria-Egypt, 23-25 April , 2007 (in press). • Attaher, S. M. and Medany, M. A., 2007, Climate Change and Irrigation in Mediterranean Region, Proc. of the international conference on "climate change and their impacts on costal zones and River Deltas", Alexandria-Egypt, 23-25 April, 2007 (in press). 1 • Medany, M. A., Attaher, S. M. and Abou-Hadid, A. F., 2007, Socio-economical analysis of agricultural stakeholders in relation to adapting capacity to climate change in Egypt, Proc. of the international conference on "climate change and their impacts on costal zones and River Deltas", Alexandria-Egypt, 23-25 April , 2007 (in press). • Medany, M. A., Hassanien, M.K. and Attaher, S. M., 2007, Analysis and Mitigation Options of Methane Emissions from Egyptian Paddy Rice, Proc. of the international conference on "climate change and their impacts on costal zones and River Deltas", Alexandria-Egypt, 23-25 April, 2007 (in press). • Reports: Shared as an assistant editor in Chapter 9 of " Impact of Climate Change on Arab Countries" included in the special report of the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) of " ARAB ENVIRONMENT: FUTURE CHALLENGES", 2007 (in press). The following papers abstracts are accepted and shared in the international conference on "climate change and Agriculture", that will be held in April 8-11, 2008, in Sadat Acadamy of envirionmental science, Minofya, Egypt: • Attaher, S. M. and Medany, M. A., Analysis of crop water use efficiencies in Egypt under climate change. • Medany, M. A. and Attaher, S. M., Vulnerability Assessment of agriculture sector in the Nile Delta Region. • Khalil, A. A., Hassanien, M.K., Attaher, S. M. and Medany, M. A., Observed changes in surface air temperature over Egypt. Conferences and workshops: • The International Conference on Climate Changes and Their Impacts on Costal Zones and River Deltas: Vulnerability, Mitigation and Adaptation. 23-25 April 2007, Alexandria, Egypt. • UNFCCC Workshop on Climate Related Risks and Extreme events under the Nairobi Work Programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, 18-20 June 2007, Cairo, Egypt. • UNFCCC Workshop on Exchange of Experiences and Good Practices Among Non-Annex I Parties in Preparing National Communication and Cross Cutting Issues, 20-22 September 2007, Cairo, Egypt. Name: Richard Betts Conferences and workshops: • Many of my public talks include many AR4 results. eg: South West Chamber of Rural Enterprise, various local environmental groups or visitors to the Met Office. • I gave a presentation on WGII stuff at the House of Commons to the All-Party working group on climate change, and one to the board and staff of the Eden Project on both WGI and WGII. I wrote one on WG1 and WG11 for the Climate Group to give by videoconference but the technology failed and their boss had to give it on my behalf! • I gave a briefing to the Live Earth production team on AR4 results (both WG1 and WG11). Briefings: • At the Bali conference, I publicly debunked Viscount Monckton's outrageous claims about the IPCC review process being flawed - fortunately he only attracted an audience of 9 people, including some of his cronies, but at least the media saw an IPCC author setting the record straight. Name: Marco Bindi 2 Publications: • F. Miglietta, M. Bindi, F. Vaccari, M. Moriondo, 2008. Chapter 5: Impact of climate change on agriculture. In: Vulnerability and Impacts of climate change in Italy: elements for possible national adaptation strategies (Eds. S. Castellari, V. Artale) (in press) (in Italian) • M. Moriondo, M. Bindi, 2008. Impact of climate change on the phenology of typical Mediterranean crops, Italian Journal of Agrometeorology, (in press) (in English) • M.Bindi and J.E. Olesen, 2008. The responses of the agriculture in Europe to climate change. In “Climate impact hotspots – Key vulnerable regions and climate change” (Eds. B.Hare, A. Battaglini, C. Jaeger and Wolfgang Cramer) (in press) (in English) • S. Orlandini, M. Bindi, M. Howden, 2008. Chapter 6: Plant Biometeorology and adaptation. In: Biometeorology for Adaptation to climate Vulnerability and Change: Research Frontiers and Perspectives (Eds. K.L. Ebi, I. Burton, and G. McGregor) (in press) (in English) • M. Moriondo, C. Giannakopoulos, M. Bindi, 2008. The role of climate extremes in crop yield climaye change impacts assessments. Climatic change (submitted) (in English) Conferences and workshops: In the conferences or workshops reported below, I presented results reported in the IPCC report or the main outputs of WGI, WGII and WGIII: • M. Bindi, "Climate change and Agriculture: Impacts, Uncertainties and Adaptation Options" at Expert JRC Meeting on Climate Change impacts on European Agriculture, 8-9 March 2007, Ispra (Italy) (in English) • M. Bindi, M. Moriondo, "Impact of climate change on agricultural ecosystems: status and perspective of research" at Convegno Nazionale di Fisica della Terra Fluida e Problematiche Affini: Sezione n. 5 - Climatologia Applicata e Storica, 11-15 June 2007, Ischia (Italy) (in Italian) • M. Bindi, "Climate change and cultural ecosystems vulnerability" at Workshop: Vulnerabilità dei sistemi colturali ai cambiamenti climatici, 18-19 October, Bari (Italy) (in Italian) • M. Bindi, "Agronomic techniques to cope with climate change" at Workshop: Le giornate di Studio di GranoItalia, III SESSIONE: Le Ripercussioni Tecniche dei Cambiamenti Climatici nel Settore dei Seminativi: Ipotesi e Scenari Futuri, 27-28 Septeber 2007, Bologna (Italy) (in Italian) • M. Bindi, J. Olesen, "IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Climate change Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for agricultural ecosystems", at XXXVII Convegno della Società Italiana di Agronomia, 13-14 September, Catania (Italy) • M. Bindi, "Adaptation strategies to climate change in agriculture: the role of climate extreme events", at National Conference on Climate Change, 12-13 September 2007, Roma (Italy) (in Italian) • M. Bindi, "ADAPT OR DIE: The response of agriculture to address climate change", at Preparing Workshop for the National Conference on Climate Change, 20 July 2007, Bridisi (Italy) (in Italian) Briefings: • Interviews in Local and National newspaper, magazine, and TV channels Name: Michel Boko Conferences and workshops: • I attended an African Regional Workshop on Water Resources in changing climate context in June 2007 in Cotonou (Benin). During this meeting I gave an oral presentation (PowerPoint) on the outlines of our Chapter 9 (Africa and Climate change). 3 • Presently, the Beninese minister in charge of Environment issues and Natural Resource Protection is preparing a sub-regional
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