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International conference

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 ?

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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 investme nt 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