Climate change is among the major challenges of modern times. As the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has shown, there are still many challenges ahead and many needs to be met, calling from action not only from government, but also from various stakeholders.
Apart from the knowledge offered by modelling and forecasts which allows us to understand the problem and how it develops in the future, we need to know more about approaches, methods and tools, which may help us to cope with the social, economic and political problems posed by climate change now. In order words, we need to speed up developments in the field of climate change adaptation.
It is against this background that the "World Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation" is being organised. The event is a joint initiative by Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), the Research and Transfer Centre "Applications of Life Sciences" of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and the Baltic University Programme in Uppsala (Sweden), in cooperation with the International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP) and the United Nations University initiative "Regional Centres of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development" (RCE). The Symposium will be a truly interdisciplinary event, covering some of the key areas in the field of climate change adaptation.
The "World Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation" will focus on "innovative approaches to implement climate change adaptation", and will contribute to the further development of this fast-growing field.
Details of the Symposium are available here.
An abstract submission form and guidelines are available here
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The abstract submission deadline is 20 December 2014
The early bird registration deadline for the symposium is 30 January 2015
The deadline for submission of full papers is 30 March 2015
The symposium registration deadline is 30 May 2015