Adaptation to the Consequences of Climate Change Process:
Progress Achieved and Capacity Building Needed

Facilitating effective adaptation to the consequences of climate change
and capacity building in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe, Belarus, the Russian Federation, Turkey and Ukraine

19-20 November 2007, Budapest, Hungary

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• Agenda (pdf - 184 KB)
• List of Participants (pdf - 312 KB)

Presentations:

• Introduction of Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe
  Zsuzsanna Ivanyi, REC, Head of Climate Change Department
  (ppt - 1.2 MB)
• Opening remarks from the Italian Government as co-funder of the workshop
  Stefania Romano, Coordinator of the Italian Trust Fund, REC, Hungary
  (ppt - 468 KB)
• Climate change: impact, adaptation and vulnerability on the european resource base
  Nováky Béla, IPCC expert, Associate Professor, Landscape Ecology, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary
  (ppt - 4 MB)
• Nairobi Work Programme on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change
  Paul V. Desanker, Head of Capacity Building and Outreach Unit, UNFCCC Secretariat, Bonn, Germany
  (ppt - 6.1 MB)
• EU Green Paper “Adapting to Climate Change in Europe”
  Ms. Rosario Bento Pais, Policy Coordinator, DG Environment, EC, Brussels, Belgium
  (ppt - 4.4 MB)
• EEA activities on adaptation: progress achieved and cooperation ahead
  Ms. Michaela Schaller, Senior Scientist, Climate Change/ETC/ACC, German Environment Agency, Dessau Germany
  (ppt - 4.4 MB)
• “Finland’s National Adaptation Strategy”: stages of preparation and lessons learnt –
  best practices to share
  Ms. Susanna Kankaanpää, Research Programme for Global Change,
  Finnish Environment Institute, Finland
  (ppt - 4.9 MB)
• Hungarian first steps towards adaptation strategy: meeting the challenges of adaptation -
  VAHAVA project
  Pr. Zsolt Harnos, Head of Department, Faculty of Horticultural Science Corvinus University of Budapest
  (ppt - 2.2 MB)
• Climate Change Effects and Assessment of Adaptation Potential in the Russian Federation
  Yulia Dobroljubova, Expert on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol, RREC, Russian Federation
  (ppt - 1.3 MB)
• GEF Funding for Adaptation to Climate Change
  Lars Christiansen, Junior Professional officer, Climate & Chemicals – Adaptation, GEF, Washington, USA
  (ppt - 4.7 MB)
• Recent IPCC findings: Working Group III – mitigation
  Alexandra Novikova, Research Assistant, Environmental Sciences & Policy Department, CEU,
  Budapest, Hungary
  (ppt - 4.1 MB)
• ERA-Net CIRCLEClimate Impact Research Coordination for a Larger Europe
  Sugárka Kelecsényi, Scientific Counselor, Department for Research Education and Innovation, Ministry of Environment and Water, Hungary
  (ppt - 2.4 MB)
• Climate change and water issues: “EU Framework Water Directive” and climate change
  Ms. Jovanka Ignjatovic, Project Manager, Environmental Policy Department, REC, Hungary
  (ppt - 3.6 MB)
• Impacts of climate change to the power sector and adaptation response measures in the Mati River catchment's area
  Besim Islami, Team Leader of the Albanian GHG Inventory, Climate Change Unit, Ministry
  of Environment, Forests and Water Management, Tirana, Albania
  (ppt - 27 MB)
• Lake Balaton Integrated Vulnerability Assessment, Early Warning and Adaptation Strategies
  Gábor Molnár, Lake Balaton Development Coordination Agency, Siófok, Hungary
  (ppt - 10 MB)
• Strategic Environmental Assessment for integrating climate change issues into the national
  (sectoral and territorial) development
  Henrieta Martonakova, UNDP Bratislava, Slovakia
  (ppt - 98 KB)
• Agriculture and food security: “Study for Climate Chang Iimpact Assessment on Agriculture and Adaptations Strategy Development in Bosnia & Herzegovina”
  Goran Trbic, Head of Geography Department, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Banja Luka,
  Bosnia and Herzegovina
  (ppt - 1 MB)
• Housing and Industry: “Adaptation to Climate Change in Urban Water Management in Turkey”
  Ms. Hande Gülten Özüt, REC Country Office, Turkey
  (ppt - 2.8 MB)
• Forestry: “Preparatory Study for Development of the Adaptation Strategy for Forestry Sector in Republic of Serbia”
  Professor Ratko Kadovic, Faculty of Forestry, Belgrade University, Serbia,
  Pr. Aleksandar Vasiljevic, Director, Directorate for Forestry, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, Belgrade, Serbia
  (ppt - 195 KB)
• Adaptation in the Region: the beginning of the process. Capacity Building ahead?
  Maria Khovanskaya, REC, Climate Change Department
  (ppt - 89 KB)
• Creation of three working groups brainstorming about the concrete needs in capacity building in SEE, CEE and Turkey, Presentation of the working groups’ conclusions
  (ppt - 20 KB)
  

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