Conference presentation
Introduction to climate change adaptation
EIANZ: From Discovery to Delivery, 2010 (Te Papa, New Zealand, 27-Oct-2010–29-Oct-2010)
Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand
2010
Abstract
The EIANZ is committed to helping environmental practitioners grapple with the challenges of climate change. The Institute has developed a Climate Change Skills training program that has a number of resources for use by practitioners. These resources introduce practitioners to planned adaptation and mitigation responses to projected impacts of climate change. They also offer a doorway into the rapidly evolving fields of knowledge that are emerging as we seek to reduce vulnerability to climate change and adapt our systems to cope with the challenges of Climate Change. This session will introduce you to these tools and the newly established Climate Change Special Interest Section. You will learn what's gone on to date and how to get involved in future. We are also privileged to have Professor Richard Warwick of CLIMsystems Ltd to participate in this session and speak to us about the groundbreaking SimCLIM modelling system and its application to climate change adaptation. His recent activities have focused on climate change related issues, particularly global climate and sea-level changes, as they pertain to research, training and sustainable development, and on the development of integrated models for assessing the effects of climate change and variability at national and regional scales. He led the FRST-funded Climpacts Programme for New Zealand and, internationally, has led the development of training packages for climate change vulnerability and adaptation assessment. He has been a major contributor to reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and has provided consultation on numerous occasions, including to UNDP, UNDP-GEF, UNEP, World Bank, APN, START, UNITAR, and SPREP.
Details
- Title
- Introduction to climate change adaptation
- Authors
- S Cavendish (Author)Richard A Warrick (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health and Education
- Conference details
- EIANZ: From Discovery to Delivery, 2010 (Te Papa, New Zealand, 27-Oct-2010–29-Oct-2010)
- Publisher
- Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand
- Date published
- 2010
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450129202621
- Output Type
- Conference presentation
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