Events

Calendars

1. •UNFCCC calendar
   

2. •UN System & Climate Change Calendar
   

3. •Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change
   

4. •Harvard University lecture series
   

5. •Video archive (scroll down)
   

Upcoming events (chronological order)

95th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America

1. •1-6 August 2010, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
   

2. •Sponsor: Ecological Society of America
   

3. •Theme: “Global Warming: The legacy of our past, the challenge for our future”
   

Greater Yellowstone Coalition - 27th annual meeting

1. •September 24, 2010 in Jackson, Wyoming
   

2. •Central theme for the event on climate change.
   

10th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

1. •October 18-29, Nagoya, Japan
   

2. •“Biodiversity and climate change" is listed as one of six “issues for in-depth consideration” (see agenda §5.6).
   

3. •In late May, the Working Group on Review of Implementation of the CBD released a press release entitled “World governments build consensus on a new biodiversity vision to combat biodiversity loss, alleviate poverty and fight climate change.”
   

11th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment on “Our Changing Oceans”

1. •January 19-21, 2011
   

2. •The conference “will provide a forum to address the crisis facing our oceans, new knowledge and innovative tools to address the challenge, and the policy and governance needed to restore and protect the oceans.”
   

3. •Hosted by the National Council on Science and the Environment,
   

4. •Currently calling for proposals for Breakout Sessions and Symposia.
   

Previous events (reverse chronological order)

1. •more events are integrated into the Regional Impacts page and the Institutions page
   

24th International Congress for Conservation Biology

1. •3-7 July 2010, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
   

2. •Sponsor: Society for Conservation Biology
   

3. •Theme: “Conservation for a changing planet”
   

4. •See the overall program here, where a search for “climate change” in the “Title/Abstracts/Keyword” search box results in nearly 200 finds.
   

Workshop on “Climate Change and Wildlife Conservation: Adaptation and Mitigation”

1. •April 26, 2010
   

2. •Sponsored by Massachusetts’ Climate Change and Wildlife Alliance
   

3. •Conference presentations & materials
   

Workshop at the 66th annual Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference

1. •April 26, 2010, Newton, Massachusetts
   

2. •Workshop theme: “Climate Change and Wildlife Conservation - Adaptation and Mitigation”
   

3. •Conference presentations & materials available at the website.
   

4. •Co-sponsored by Massachusetts’ Climate Change and Wildlife Alliance.
   

75th North American Wildlife & Natural Resources Conference

1. •March 22-27, 2010
   

2. •Often simply referred to as “the North American,” this year includes a number of sessions on climate change.
   

3. •Department of Defense’s Natural Resources Conservation Legacy Program will sponsor a workshop entitled Climate Change Tools for Adapting Management Strategies on March 22 (DoD natural resource personnel are the focus audience for this session).
   

4. •Also on the 22nd, the conference schedule lists a workshop on the entitled Structured Decision Making & Adaptive Management for Climate Change and a “town hall meeting” on The Impacts of Climate Change Legislation on Natural Resources Conservation.
   

5. •The Climate Change Committee of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies will meet on the 25th. 15th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
   

6. •7-18 December 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark
   

7. •While biodiversity conservation received substantive coverage by the myriad diplomats, scientists, and activists assembled in Copenhagenm the focus was on “reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation” (REDD) and “REDD+”.
   

8. •A concise summary of what happened and the prospects for REDD in 2010 can be found at carbonpositive.net.
   

9. •Although no individual agreement on REDD was reached, support for REDD was articulated in the Copenhagen Accord three times, most notably in reference to creating a “Copenhagen Green Climate Fund” as “the financial mechanism of the Convention to support projects, programme [sic], policies and other activities in developing countries related to mitigation including REDD-plus....”
   

10. •For general outcomes from Copenhagen, see the conference website, the website of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and coverage by The Guardian.
    

11. •Side events on biodiversity conservation that occurred at Copenhagen can be found at the calendar of events, which can be delimited to those covering biodiversity via the middle top menu (marked “Filter by category”). Of the 30+ events listed here, one particularly relevant side event was entitled “Building the global biodiversity informatics commons for climate change adaptation.”
    

12. •A prominent biodiversity-related site on Copenhagen can be found at the IUCN and its focus on “nature-based solutions” to climate change (in particular, see the IUCN’s collection of Copenhagen position papers).
    

13. •For a sampling of some other biodiversity-related perspectives related to the negotiations--and it cannot be emphasized that this is but a sampling--see pages from WWF, University of Queensland, Bangladesh, and EcosystemMarketplace.com.
    

Climate Change and Protected Areas Summit

1. •16-19 November 2009, Grenada, Spain
   

2. •Hosted by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, Programme on Protected Areas, and the Centre for Cooperation in the Mediterranean
   

3. •Principal result was establishment of the PACT 2020 Partnership: Protected Areas and Climate Turnaround, which has released the report Natural solutions: Protected areas helping people cope with climate change (see the WWF webpage, the ReliefWeb page, or go direct to the pdf).
   

Biodiversity and Society: Understanding Connections, Adapting to Change

1. •13-16 October 2009, Cape Town, South Africa
   

2. •DIVERSITAS second “Open Science Conference”
   

3. •Noting that “the fabric out of which the Earth system is woven is unravelling at an accelerating rate, the Conference Statement calls “on governments and non-governmental organisations to join us in establishing”  Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
   

International Conference on Ecology and Transportation

1. •13-17 September 2009, Duluth, Minnesota
   

2. •Theme: “Adapting to Change”
   

Island Time: The Fate of Place in a Wired, Warming World

1. •3-6 June 2009, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
   

2. •Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
   

3. •Final program
   

Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change

1. •20-24 April 2009, Anchorage, Alaska
   

2. •The Anchorage Declaration emanating from the conference states: “We reaffirm the unbreakable and sacred connection between land, air, water, oceans, forests, sea ice, plants, animals and our human communities as the material and spiritual basis for our existence.”
   

3. •US northeast wildlife conference covers wildlife & climate change
   

4. •At the April conference of the Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, an extensive session covered the topic of “State and Regional Initiatives to Safeguard Wildlife from Climate Change in the Northeast.” Specific topics covered included: Overview of Climate-Change Related Activities across the Northeast, Planning for Climate Change in Virginia, Conducting a Climate Change Vulnerability Analysis, New York's Sea level Rise Task Force, Staying Connected in the Northern Appalachians, and Organizing an Adaptation Coalition to Address Climate Change in the Northeast.
   

5. •Of four thematic sessions, biodiversity conservation was covered in the third: Environmental Stewardship and Natural Resource Ownership and Management.
   

Conserving the World's Biodiversity: How the Climate Crisis Could Both Hurt and Help

1. -5 April 2009, the 12th Annual Roger Tory Peterson Memorial Lecture at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
   

2. -Russell A. Mittermeier, president of Conservation International, spoke on ”how climate change may present us with an opportunity to protect and invest in ‘biodiversity hotspots’ at a level far beyond that which anyone previously thought was possible.”
   

International Scientific Conference on Climate Change

1. •Copenhagen, 10-12 March 2009
   

2. •University of Copenhagen & International Alliance of Research Universities
   

3. •Approximately 2000 scientists attended
   

4. •Focused on two general purposes of (1) providing updates to the IPCC 2007 Fourth Assessment Report and (2) influencing policymakers working to set their agendas for the December 2009 Copenhagen Conference.
   

5. •From sea level rise to mitigation policies, 58 sessions at the conference covered the full gamut of climate change issues. While many of these sessions were directly relevant to the practice of biodiversity conservation, four of the most relevant were:
   

6. •Equity between Humans and the Rest of Nature
   

7. •Impact of Climate Change on Ecosystem Services
   

8. •Biodervisity, Enhancement of Resilience or Facilitating Transformation?
   

9. •Adapting Forests to Climate Change
   

10. Each of these webpages contains links to pdfs of the individual presentations made in each of these sessions.
    

Global Kitchen: Climate Change and Coffee

1. •3 February 2009, American Museum of Natural History, New York City
   

2. •Todd Carmichael (La Colombe Torrefaction; Coffee Roasters & Blenders) and Danner Friedman (Rainforest Alliance) discuss growing coffee amid the realities of climate change.
   

9th annual conference of the National Council on Science and the Environment (NCSE)

1. •Washington, DC, 8-10 December 2009, the NCSE
   

2. •Theme: “Biodiversity in a rapidly changing world”
   

3. •Participants in the conference attended over 30 breakout sessions where they were instructed to develop specific recommendations to the incoming Obama Administration on climate change policy and biodiversity; these draft recommendations can be found here.
   

4. •Available as an MS Word download on the conference website, the 19-page “Memorandum to the Energy and Environment Transition Team of President-Elect Barack Obama” focuses on the following issues: a sustainable and secure future, climate change science and solutions, integrating environmental and human health, biodiversity, water, forestry, monitoring and forecasting, environmental education, international, and institutional changes. Under the biodiversity section, the five key recommendations concern (1) formal recognition of the interconnections between climate change and biodiversity, (2) biodiversity as an “important part” of re-engaging US global leadership, (3) biodiversity as the fundamental basis of American wealth, (4) biodiversity as essential to security, and (5) the need for information on biodiversity.
   

Climate Change and Biodiversity in the Americas

1. •Panama, 25-29 February 2008
   

2. •“...brings together top researchers, industry representatives and managers of climate change and forest biodiversity research and monitoring activities from North, Central and South America and the Caribbean.”
   

Wetlands 2008: Wetlands and Global Climate Change

1. •Association of State Wetland Managers
   

2. •16-18 September 2008
   

Conservation Leadership Dialogue on Conservation and Climate Change: Building a Framework for Adaptive Management

1. •May 2008, Cambridge, Massachusetts
   

2. •Hosted by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
   

Outlook Session 2008: Forum on Climate Change Effects on Federal Lands

1. •Hosted by the Pinchot Institute for Conservation
   

International Conference on Biodiversity Science & Governance

1. •Paris, 24-28 January 2005
   

2. •Hosted by France & UNESCO
   

3. •Climate change was one of several themes of the conference.
   

4. •While materials for the conference have mostly been taken off the Internet, two significant papers from the proceedings include:
   

5. -Brander, Keith. Is climate change moving the goalposts for fisheries management?
   

6. -Korner, Christian. Atmospheric changes affect biodiversity.
   

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Forum on Global Change and Our Common Future

1. •National Research Council, the National Theatre, Washington, D.C.: May 2–3, 1989
   

Global Climate Change and Life on Earth: Evidence, Predictions and Policy

1. •New York State Museum, Albany: April 24-25, 1989
   

Consequences of the Greenhouse Effect for Biological Diversity

1. •World Wildlife Fund, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC: October 4-6, 1988
   

2. •Papers from the conference were eventually published as the 1992 book: Global warming and biological diversity.

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