12–15 May 2014
Fortaleza, Brazil
Specific sessions are planned on adapting infrastructure, urban growth and resilience, the role of local and central governance and cross-cutting challenges affecting the built environment.
- Adaptation Futures: More information, abstract submission and registration
Organised by UNEP’s programme of research on Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation (PROVIA) and CCST/INPE Brazil, this conference will focus on climate impacts and adaptation options. It aims to bring together scientists and decision makers, and practitioners to share research approaches, methods and results. It will explore the way forward in a world where impacts are increasingly observable and adaptation actions are increasingly required.
Sessions will be organised around five themes:
- Theme A: Impacts of climatic change on different sectors and implications for adaptation
- Theme B: Linking adaptation and development for human wellbeing
- Theme C: Integrated approaches across scales (local to global) towards transformation for a 4°C+ world
- Theme D: Adaptation at the edge, in regions most vulnerable to change
- Theme E: Understanding, measuring and communicating adaptation
