date: Fri Jan 24 09:28:51 2003 from: Mike Hulme subject: Re: Fw: IPCC Exploratory Meeting on Adaptation to Climate Change, to: "Neil Adger" Neil, Thanks for this. Of course it is worth noting, and perhaps the point can be made in the meeting itself, that all of the scientists here - Arnell, Adger, Nicholls, Berkhout, Cannell and Kovats - are either Tyndall scientists or working for Tyndall, i.e., Tyndall Centre is helping to fund much of this research activity in the UK. It is certainly a point I will be making to the research councils in our Annual Report. The presumably means Martin is not attending our meeting the following day? Mike At 15:44 23/01/03 +0000, you wrote: Mike FYI. Neil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Van Der Linden, Paul" To: "Maskell, Kathy" ; "Harrison, Mike" ; "'DEFRA - Diana Wilkins'" ; ; ; ; ; "'lshtm.ac.uk'" ; Cc: "'Parry, Martin'" Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 3:41 PM Subject: IPCC Exploratory Meeting on Adaptation to Climate Change, DEFRA,29th Jan 14:00 to 17:00 > Message from Martin Parry: > > Dear Colleagues: > > EXPLORATORY MEETING ON ADAPTATION, WEDNESDAY 29th January 2003 at DEFRA, > 1400-1700 > > Thank you for agreeing to attend this meeting. The Venue is Room 3A, 3rd > Floor, 3/B4 Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE. Entrance > passes can be collected at the reception area. Please visit > [1]http://streetmap.co.uk and type in SW1E 6DE for the exact location of > Ashdown House. > > The purpose of the meeting is to consider how best the IPCC, which is now > beginning to think about the structure of the Fourth Assessment (AR4), > should handle the issue of adaptation to climate change. In particular, > there is the need to evaluate adaptive capacity more effectively than was > achieved in the TAR, and to consider the limits and costs of adaptation. > Ultimately, AR4 would also wish to achieve a more integrated analysis of > the mutual roles that adaptation and mitigation can play (including some > analysis of their relative costs). > > This is not a formal IPCC meeting, but one of several informal discussions > on different topics, prior to more formal consultations planned for > mid-2003. > > I think we should treat this as a very informal discussion but, to give you > an idea of what to think about beforehand, may I suggest the following as a > rough agenda (there will be ppt and an overhead available): > > 1. Introduction. Martin Parry > > 2. How adaptation was treated in the IPCC Third assessment. Neil Adger (10 > mins) > > 3. Next steps (5 mins each participant): i) (in your field) what new > knowledge on adaptation can be expected for AR4, from current post-TAR > research? ii) what new areas of research should be fostered? iii) measuring > adaptive capacity, and its limits (eg with respect to Article 2 of the > UNFCCC since, when adaptive limits are exceeded, then climate change becomes > more 'dangerous'?) ; iv) measuring the costs of adaptation. > > 4. Treating adaptation as an issue in AR4. What are the alternative ways of > tackling this? Who are the 'new names' in addition to IPCC-known scientists > that AR4 should involve? (General discussion). > > The following will be attending the meeting: > Chris West > Nigel Arnell > Robert Nicholls > Neil Adger > Frans Berkhout > Sari Kovats > Melvin Cannell > Martin Parry > Mike Harrison > Paul van der Linden > Kathy Maskell > Diana Wilkins > > I look forward to seeing you on the 29th. > > Yours, > Martin Parry > > > > Professor Martin Parry, > Co-Chair Working Group 2 (Impacts and Adaptation), > Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, > School of Environmental Sciences, > University of East Anglia, > Norwich NR4 7TJ, > United Kingdom. > Tel +44 1986 781437 > Fax +44 1986 781437 > e-mail: parryml@aol.com > or: martin.parry@uea.ac.uk > > > > > >