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DAY 1: Thursday, 2nd April 2009
DAY 2: Friday, 3rd April 2009
Program
[
Printable
Program with Participant's List][last updated: 1st April
2009]DAY 1: Thursday, 2nd April 2009
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome Address |
| Carlo CARRARO - University of Venice, FEEM and CMCC, Italy | |
| Shardul AGRAWALA - OECD, Paris | |
| 09:15 - 11:00 | Opening Lectures: Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate Change |
| Chair: Carlo CARRARO - University of Venice, FEEM and CMCC, Italy |
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| 09:15 - 09:50 | A Policy Take on the Economics of Adaption |
| Shardul AGRAWALA - OECD, Paris | |
| 09:50 - 10:25 | Adaptation: Why Is It Important, What Do We Know About It, and What Is Still Missing? |
| Robert MENDELSOHN - Yale University, USA | |
| 10:25 - 11:00 | Open Discussion |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Session 1: Mitigation and Adaptation: an Integrated Approach to Climate Change Policy |
| Chair: Shardul AGRAWALA - OECD, Paris | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | |
| Carlo CARRARO - University of Venice, FEEM and CMCC, Italy | |
| Enrica DE CIAN - FEEM, Italy | |
| Francesco BOSELLO - University of Milan and FEEM, Italy | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Act or React? Anticipatory vs. Reactive Adaptation from an IAM Perspective |
| Robert DELLINK - OECD, Paris | |
| Kelly DE BRUIN - Wageningen University, The Netherlands | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Discussion Coordinated by Laurence TUBIANA - IDDRI, France |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 17:30 | Session 2: Adaptation Sectoral Damage Estimates/Functions |
| Chair: Samuel FANKHAUSER - London School of Economics, UK | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Recent Developments in Ricardian Methods to Estimate Damage Functions in the Agricultural Sector |
| Emanuele MASSETTI - FEEM, Italy | |
| Robert MENDELSOHN - Yale University, USA | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | The Impact of Climate Change on Coastal Zones |
| Robert NICHOLLS - University of Southampton, UK | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | The Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources: a Computable General Equilibrium Analysis |
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| Richard TOL - ESRI, Ireland and Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Extreme Events: Risk Managements in a Climate Change Context [ presentation
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| Stephane HALLEGATTE - CIRED and Meteo-France, France | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Discussion Coordinated by James MACGREGOR - International Institute for Environment and Development, UK |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Closing Remarks |
| 20:00 | Social Dinner  |
DAY 2: Friday, 3rd April 2009
| 9:00 - 13:00 | Session 3: Economy Wide Effects of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Measures |
| Chair: Franck LECOCQ - AgroParisTech and INRA, France | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Adapting Forests and Ecosystems to Climate Change |
| Brent SOHNGEN - Ohio State University and RFF, USA | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Adaptation to Temperature Extremes |
| Wolfram SCHLENKER - Columbia University, USA | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Adapting to Climate Change: Challenges and Options for Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Rashid M. HASSAN – University of Pretoria, South Africa | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Costs of Adaptation for Infrastructure in the Developing World: Methods and Preliminary Results |
| Gordon HUGHES – University of Edinburgh, UK | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Climate Change Impacts and the Role of Autonomous Adaptation |
| Francesco BOSELLO - University of Milan and FEEM, Italy | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Discussion Coordinated by Samuel FANKHAUSER - London School of Economics, UK |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 16:15 | Session 4: What Adaptations Should Occur and When? |
| Chair: Robert MENDELSOHN - Yale University, USA | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Overview of Types and Timing of Adaptations |
| Joel SMITH - Stratus Consulting, USA | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Mapping Adaptation Funding Flows. The RFF Global Adaptation Atlas Project [ presentation
2,8 MB] [ paper 136 kb] |
| Shalini VAJJHALA - RFF, USA | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Global Climate Change and the Funding of Adaptation |
| Seraina BUOB - University of Bern, Switzerland | |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Discussion Coordinated by Franck LECOCQ – AgroParisTech and INRA, France |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Closing Remarks |
| Shardul AGRAWALA - OECD, Paris | |
| Carlo CARRARO - University of Venice, FEEM and CMCC, Italy |
