date: Wed Jan 16 13:27:37 2002 from: Mike Hulme subject: Re: Int Dev Comm. to: Nick Brooks , Neil Adger ,k.brown@uea.ac.uk,Alex Haxeltine , d.conway@uea.ac.uk Nick, I cannot make the 29th either. Maybe Neil/Kate could. In the meantime, all should know that Warrilow in DEFRA gave evidence to the IDC on Monday and was asked a question by one MP about what work Tyndall was doing re. developing countries (he said 'what was the world-class centre of excellence at the Tyndall Centre doing?' - !). Since, as a civil servant he has to reply to such questions, Warrilow asked me for some summary information. The attached file therefore picks out the six main activities Tyndall is currently doing with developing countries. Mike At 16:29 15/01/02 +0000, Nick Brooks wrote: Dear All As many of us no doubt suspected, Tyndall have been asked if we can provide people for the panel for the oral evidence session on climate change and sustainable development. This is scheduled for 10:30 am on Tuesday 29 January. Declan can't make it, and most of the rest of you are away as I write, so Alex and I decided that we should promise at least two people, whose identities are to be confirmed. If no-one else is available we will do this - Tyndall should certainly be represented. Please let me now at some point in the very near future whether you can/want to participate. At present the session is likely to be split in two, with the first part addressing (i) vulnerability and (ii) impacts, lasting some 30-40 minutes. The second part will bring the conclusions of the first together with issues of (iii) adaptation, and (iv) sustainable lives and risk management. The committee are thinking of calling one or two witnesses for each of these four topics. Saleemul Huq will be on the panel, and they are waiting to hear from Sari Kovats. If there are only four of us, they may run the two parts together and use all of us throughout. The entire session will last for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. If they have trouble finding panel members, the session will probably be postponed, and we'll all be asked again. If I can promise 3 or 4 people from Tyndall I suspect the session will go ahead regardless of their success finding members in addition to us and Saleem. Cheers Nick Dr Nick Brooks Centre for Social and Economic Research in the Global Environment (CSERGE) and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ Tel: +44 (0)1603 593904 (direct line) Fax: +44 (0)1603 593901 Email: n.brooks@uea.ac.uk Personal web site: [1]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~e118/welcome.html Tyndall Centre website: [2]http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/ CSERGE: [3]http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/cserge/