2010 International Climate Change Adaptation Conference. (June 28, 2010)

This week Australia's first international conference on adapting to climate change begins on the Gold Coast.

Plenary speakers for the three-day conference, beginning tomorrow will be:

• Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Climate Change, Adaptation, and IPCC

• Martin Parry, Grantham Institute and Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College, UK. Professor Parry was co-chair of the IPCC's working group II on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability - The challenge for adaptation: the legacy from Copenhagen

• Stephen Schneider, Stanford University, USA. Recognised as one of the world's foremost experts in climate change, Professor Schneider has served as an advisor to the Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Sr., Clinton, Bush, Jr. and Obama administrations. - Uncertainty/limits to adaptation/adapting to +4^oC

Details and abstracts for the conference are given in the 360-page conference handbook .

The meeting is:

Co-hosted by Australia’s National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility and the CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship, and will be one of the first international forums to focus solely on climate impacts and adaptation. It will bring together scientists and decision makers from developed and developing countries 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. The Climate Adaptation Futures Conference will showcase leading impacts and adaptation research from around the world. It will explore the contribution of adaptation science to planning and policy making, and how robust adaptation decision making can proceed in the face of uncertainty about climate change and its impacts.

For those not inclined to download the full handbook below is the conference summary.