Coping with Climate Change — How the Vulnerable Must Adapt: International Development Research Centre

When (begins) : 2008-06-10 7:00 (Ottawa) 2008-06-10 16:00 (Ottawa) -
Where : Hotel Hilton Bonaventure, Montreal, Canada

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Climate change is already threatening vulnerable areas such as the Arctic and Sub-Saharan Africa and undermining traditional ways of life. Vulnerable populations in the developing world are facing more droughts and extreme temperatures resulting in increased food and water insecurity, deepening poverty and greater mortality and disease.

Urgent action is needed to find ways to face what many feel is the most critical issue facing the world today. What can be done to cope with the scourge of global warming? Hear from those already trying to adjust to climate change as well as those researching the best ways to adapt to the challenge.

June 10, 2008

10:15 to noon

Hotel Hilton Bonaventure

Montreal, Canada

Chair: Maureen O’Neil, President, IDRC

Moderator:

Steven Guilbeault, Co-founder Equiterre, spokesperson for the Climate and Energy Campaign; columnist for many publications, including le Journal Métro, Transcontinental and Voir.

Speakers:

John M.R. Stone, Vice-chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s Working Group II, Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies Department, Carleton University; Senior Fellow, IDRC

Patricia Cochran, Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Council, Alaska

Nathalie Beaulieu, Senior Program Officer, Climate Change Adaptation Program, IDRC, Senegal

Salamatu Garba, Coordinator, Women Farmers Advancement Network, Nigeria

Kaia Ambrose, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager, Care Canada

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