Researchers' Day - Climate Change Impact, Adaptation and Mitigation

Promotion of economic and social development and growth is a key objective of the new strategy for Danish development assistance. There is a close link between development and natural resources (land, water, energy, and forests) and its various social and health implications. These links and development potentials are critically affected by climate change. The impacts on living conditions for people, not least the poor in developing countries, are projected to be severe due to rising temperatures, drought, increasing weather variability and stronger and more frequent disasters.

How can research on various topics related to climate change risks reduce vulnerability and thereby contribute to social and economic development? Can climate change adaptation be a vehicle for better management of resources and improve the natural resource base, which is of utmost importance for development and progress, not least for poor communities, and can climate change mitigation go hand in hand with energy access, sustainable natural resource management, and thereby development?

With this overarching theme, a one-day meeting with presentations and discussions on research within climate change was held  by the Climate Change Task Force.

Date: October 7, 2010 - 8:30-16:30
Venue: GEUS, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark

Presentations

Programme

Concept note

Abstracts:

All abstracts

Climate change and security

Sujan Saha, Action Aid, Denmark: Assessing the Security Implications of Climate Change as a challenge to international peace and security: Country Case Studies of Bangladesh

Climate change, land and water

Jens Raunsø Jensen, KU-Life: Climate change uncertainty and most appropriate actions

Annalisa Savaresi, KU Faculty of Law: Reducing emissions from deforestation under the UNFCCC. A new opportunity for forest governance

Ole Mertz, Geography, University of Copenhagen: Importance of climate factor, such as declining rainfall,  as drivers of land use and livelihood change in West Africa

Neil Mackellar, DMI: Regional climate models, DMI activities in developing countries and capacity development

Anthony Hogan, The Australian National University: A study of Australian farmers’ attitudes to climate risk and adaptation

Torsten Mandal, Independent consultant: Climate change increases incidents of extreme and/or unpredictable rainfall

Ole Fryd, LIFE, University of Copenhagen: Defining water sensitive urban landscapes for developing countries - water & sanitation

Disaster Risk Reduction

Karen G. Villholth, GEUS: Ensuring sustainable use, management, and protection of groundwater resources for disaster risk reduction

Andrew Crabtree, RUC: Climate Change and the Psychological Consequences of Flooding, experiences from Rajni, India

Frank Sejersen, KU, Faculty of humanities: Responses to climate change disasters such as the melting of ice in the Arctic and accelerating desertification in large parts of Africa

Climate change, health, urban development and transfer of technology

Sara Lærke Meltofte Trærup, UNEP Risø, DTU: The Health Impacts of Climate Change, flooding and rising temperatures, a Study of Cholera in Tanzania

Janine Wichmann, University of Copenhagen: Apparent temperature and cause-specific mortality in Greater Copenhagen, Denmark

Søren Lütken, Risø DTU: Technology transfer as a tool for adaptation to climate change. An element of the Bali Action Plan