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Global Conference on Global Warming-2011
Conference, Event, Lisbon
11 July 2011 - 14 July 2011
The Calouste Gulbenkian Congress Center
Lisbon, Portugal

The Global Conference on Global Warming is a multi-disciplinary international conference on global warming and climate change issues and potential solutions. The conference aims at bringing together researchers, scientists, engineers, practitioners, policy makers, and politicians from all over the world to exchange information, present new technologies and developments, and discuss the future directions, strategies and priorities in a global warming scenario, namely energy use and energy efficiency, mitigation and adaptation strategies.

The conference will be arranged in 3 main areas: (I) Earth System; (II) Energy use and new paradigms; (III) Vulnerabilities, impacts and mitigation. The conference will include plenary sessions, keynote lectures, and several specialized sessions on different topics related to global warming and potential solutions. The ambition is that the conference will lead to effective and fruitful communication between the research, government and industrial communities.

Agrobiodiversity to address climate change, agriculture and food security
agrobiodiversity, CGRFA13
19 July 2011
13:15 - 14:45
Austria Room, FAO
Rome, Italy

Side event to the Thirteenth Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA13), FAO. Scientists from CGIAR Centres and partnering organizations will introduce CCAFS and describe research investigating the role of agrobiodiversity to adapt agricultural production systems, particularly in developing countries, to climate change.