Adaptation Futures 2014
The Third International Climate Change Adaptation Conference 'Adaptation Futures 2014' will be held in Fortaleza, Brazil 12-16 May
This conference will focus on climate impacts and adaptation options. The conference is co-hosted and convened by the Earth System Science Center of the National Institute for Space Studies (CCST-INPE) from Brazil and by UNEP’s Programme of Research on Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation (PROVIA) and will bring together researchers, policy makers, and practitioners from developed and developing countries to share insights into the challenges and opportunities that adaptation presentes, and to share strategies for decision making from the international to the local scale.
Adaptation Futures 2014 follows on the success of the pioneering Climate Adaptation Futures Conference, co-hosted by Australia’s National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility and the CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship in Australia in 2010, and the Adaptation Futures 2012 International Conference on Climate Adaptation in Arizona in 2012.
The Adaptation Futures 2014 Conference will :
- showcase leading impacts and adaptation research from around the world.
- explore the contribution of adaptation science to planning and policy making,
- investigate how robust adaptation decision making can proceed in the face of uncertainty about climate change and its impacts.
- showcase cutting-edge research focusing on themes of equity and risk, learning, capacity building, methodology, adaptation finance and investment, and ecosystem based adaptation approaches.
- explore practical adaptation policies and approaches, and share strategies for decision making from the international to the local scale.
- introduce and examine new tools and methodolgies for adaptation finance tracking monitoring and evaluation.
The venue of the conference is the Centro de Eventos do Ceará, in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil.