Programme

Time

Session

8.30-9.30

Registration & Coffee

9.30-9.40

Welcome

Baroness Tessa Blackstone, Vice-Chancellor University of Greenwich.

Professor John Morton, Natural Resources Institute

Professor Kate Brown, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

9.45-11.00

Keynote speakers:

The trouble with growth: human development in a carbon constrained world
Andrew Simms, Policy Director, New Economics Foundation

Sustainable Energy Pathways for the SADC Region [PDF 1.7Mb]
Boaventura Cuamba, Director of SouthSouthNorth and Country Lead for Mozambique

DFID’s Approach to Meeting the Climate Change Challenge [PDF 31Kb]
Elwyn Grainger-Jones, Head of Climate and Environment, DFID

11.00–11.30

Coffee

11.30-12.30

Mini case studies:

Darfur Conflict, Environment and Climate Change [PDF 813Kb]
Helen Young, Tufts University

Climate change mitigation in low-cost housing in South Africa
Adele Arendse, SouthSouthNorth

Agricultural adaption and technological innovation in Nepal [PDF 1.3Kb]
Netra Chettri, Arizona State University

12.30–14.00

Lunch

Discussion Group sessions

14.00-15.00

Discussion Groups Session 1 (join group of choice)

Environmental change, insecurity, conflict and migration
Phil Champain (International Alert) & Ken Webster (Independent Consultant)
Should climate change alter the way we see the relations between development, security policy and migration policy?  What are the implications of this for development agencies?
Background Papers [PDF 223Kb]
Summary Report of the Discussion [PDF 55Kb]

Adaptation and adaptive capacity
Richard Lamboll (NRI, UoG) & Adele Arendse (SSN)
Is building adaptive capacity for climate change what development does anyway, something to be mainstreamed, or something new? How does this affect the practice of capacity-building in development?
Backgound Papers [PDF 254Kb]
Summary Report of the Discussion [PDF 50Kb]

Climate change and disasters
John Morton (NRI, UoG) & Terry Cannon (Humanities, UoG)
Does an emphasis on extreme events obscure the need to adapt to longer-term trends in climate change and its impacts? How can development agencies further integrate disaster response and management with development?
Background Papers [PDF 151Kb]
Summary Report of the Discussion [PDF 39Kb]

Developing countries and a post-Kyoto global deal
Chuks Okereke (Tyndall, UEA) & Heike Schroeder (ECI & Tyndall)
How can the objectives of justice, development and climate change mitigation be reconciled in the treatment of developing countries in a post-Kyoto settlement?
Background Papers [PDF 55Kb]
Summary Report of the Discussion [PDF 48Kb]

Mitigation and new sources of development finance
Jim Watson (Tyndall, SPRU, Sussex) & Tao Wang (Tyndall, SPRU, Sussex)
Does the concern to mitigate climate change provide innovative opportunities to fund development? Will this result in development that is more sustainable at a local level? What are the implications for equity and justice? How can we ensure that mitigation funding does not crowd out other funding?
Background Papers [PDF 146Kb]

Biofuels and energy development
Steve Wiggins, Overseas Development Institute
Should biofuel production (in developing and industrialised countries) be promoted on mitigation grounds? Are there positive opportunities for poor people’s livelihoods? How can we ensure there are not negative impacts on the rural and urban poor? Is the rapid expansion in biofuel production and trade likely to lead to reinforce the very kinds of development pathways that have contributed to climate change?
Background Papers [PDF 392Kb]
Summary Report of the Discussion [PDF 28Kb]

Development Futures
Natasha Grist (Tyndall, UEA, ODG) & Nick Brooks (Tyndall, UEA)
What is the future of development in the light of climate change? What tenets of current development theory and practice are challenged and need to be re-structured?  How far beyond climate mainstreaming do we need to go in order to ensure improvements in human wellbeing? What tools can assist with thinking and planning?
Background Papers [PDF 148Kb]
Summary Report of the Discussion [PDF 115Kb]

15.00-15.30

Coffee

15.30-16.30

Discussion Groups Session 2

(as above, with participants joining a second group)

16.40-16.50

Wrap-up session

Professor Robert Watson, Chief Scientist, DEFRA and Director of Strategic Development, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

16.50-17.00

Closing remarks and thanks

Professor John Morton & Professor Kate Brown

17.00–19.00

Reception