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RESPONDING TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE CARIBBEAN
June 13th‐14th 2011
Preliminary Conference Programme – Subject to change prior to the event
DAY ONE
10.00‐10.30 Registration
10.30‐10.45 Chair's opening remarks: welcome and introduction
• Paul Sutton, London Metropolitan University
10.45‐11.15 Keynote speaker: the challenge of climate change across the region
• Kenrick Leslie, Executive Director, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belize
11.15‐11.30 Tea and coffee
11.30‐1.00 PANEL 1. The impact of climate change in the Caribbean
• Modelling the costs of adaptation and disaster risk management
Murray Simpson, University of Oxford
• How can we make use of uncertain climate projections for the Caribbean?
Carol McSweeney, Met Office, Hadley Centre, UK
• Economic and social impact: today and tomorrow
David Dodman, International Institute for Environment and Development
1.00‐2.00 LUNCH
2.00‐4.30 PANEL 2. Sustainable livelihoods: building resilience and adaptation
2.00‐3.30 Agriculture and fisheries: food security
• Initiatives in sustainable agriculture: Cuba
Fernando Funes Monzote, Indio Hatuey Research Centre, Matanzas, Cuba; Latin American
Scientific Society of Agroecology (SOCLA); Ibero American Network for the Development of
Agricultural Systems Resilient to Climate Change (REDAGRES)
• Addressing the impacts of climate change on forest‐based livelihoods in the Caribbean
Neila Bobb‐Prescott, Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI), Trinidad
• Fisheries livelihoods
Nicholas Watts, London Metropolitan University
3.30‐3.45 Short break
3.45‐4.40 Employment: tourism and community‐based responses
• The economics of tourism adaptation to climate change: the Caribbean case
Tom Birch, Caribsave
• Community‐based adaptation on a small island: exploring the perceptions of climate change
in St Lucia
Franziska Mannke, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Research and Transfer Centre
• The corporate contribution: the tour operator's role
Rachel McCaffery, Virgin Holidays Limited
4.40‐5.00 Tea and coffee
5.00‐6.00 PANEL 3. Round table: Economies and livelihoods: what can be done ?
DAY TWO
10.00‐10.30 Registration
10.30.10.45 Chair's welcome and opening remarks
10.45‐12.00 PANEL 4. Infrastructure and investment financing
• The Caricom regional framework and implementation plan: investment implications
John Firth, Acclimatise; Project Consultant, Caricom regional framework and implementation
plan
• Energy futures: what role for renewables in the Caribbean?
Keron Niles, University of Otago, New Zealand
• The Caribbean habitat: learning from global adaptation strategies
Muhua Mukerjee, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Rourkee
12.00‐1.00 LUNCH
1.00‐3.40 PANEL 5. For the future: the politics and economics of climate change adaptation
in the Caribbean
1.00‐2.20 Negotiating challenges
• Making international climate politics work: towards a building blocks approach
Robert Falkner, London School of Economics
• Issues for negotiators: Cancun to Durban
Wendy Wyver, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Deputy Head, Climate Change and
Energy Department, Prosperity Directorate
• Ecological debt and compensation
Andrew Simms, New Economics Foundation
2.20‐3.40 Financing adaptation
• Insuring against climate risk
Andrew Dlugolecki, University of East Anglia
David Forrest, Kay International PLC
• Reduced emissions from deforestation initiative (REDD+): implications for the Caribbean
Graham Woodgate, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London
3.40‐4.00 Break. Tea and coffee
4.00‐4.45 PANEL 6. Closing panel: Round table: What can be done, who can do it, and who
should be paying for it?
4.45‐5.00 Chair's concluding remarks
5.00 Conference closes