date: Fri Jan 24 09:28:51 2003
from: Mike Hulme <m.hulme@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: Fw: IPCC Exploratory Meeting on Adaptation to Climate Change,
to: "Neil Adger" <N.Adger@uea.ac.uk>

   Neil,
   Thanks for this.
   Of course it is worth noting, and perhaps the point can be made in the meeting itself, that
   all of the scientists here - Arnell, Adger, Nicholls, Berkhout, Cannell and Kovats - are
   either Tyndall scientists or working for Tyndall, i.e., Tyndall Centre is helping to fund
   much of this research activity in the UK.  It is certainly a point I will be making to the
   research councils in our Annual Report.
   The presumably means Martin is not attending our meeting the following day?
   Mike
   At 15:44 23/01/03 +0000, you wrote:

     Mike
     FYI.
     Neil
     ----- Original Message -----
     From: "Van Der Linden, Paul" <paul.vanderlinden@metoffice.com>
     To: "Maskell, Kathy" <kathy.maskell@metoffice.com>; "Harrison, Mike"
     <mike.harrison@metoffice.com>; "'DEFRA - Diana Wilkins'"
     <Diana.Wilkins@defra.gsi.gov.uk>; <nwa1@soton.ac.uk>;
     <r.nicholls@mdx.ac.uk>; <n.adger@uea.ac.uk>; <f.berkhout@Sussex.ac.uk>;
     "'lshtm.ac.uk'" <mgrc@ite.ac.uksari.kovats>; <chris.west@ukcip.org.uk>
     Cc: "'Parry, Martin'" <parryml@aol.com>
     Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 3:41 PM
     Subject: IPCC Exploratory Meeting on Adaptation to Climate Change,
     DEFRA,29th Jan 14:00 to 17:00
     > Message from Martin Parry:
     >
     > Dear Colleagues:
     >
     > EXPLORATORY MEETING ON ADAPTATION, WEDNESDAY 29th January 2003 at DEFRA,
     > 1400-1700
     >
     > Thank you for agreeing to attend this meeting.  The Venue is Room 3A, 3rd
     > Floor, 3/B4 Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE. Entrance
     > passes can be collected at the reception area. Please visit
     > [1]http://streetmap.co.uk and type in SW1E 6DE for the exact location of
     > Ashdown House.
     >
     > The purpose of the meeting is to consider how best the IPCC, which is now
     > beginning to think about the structure of the Fourth Assessment (AR4),
     > should handle the issue of adaptation to climate change.  In particular,
     > there is the need to evaluate adaptive capacity more effectively than was
     > achieved in the TAR, and to consider the limits and costs of adaptation.
     > Ultimately, AR4 would also wish to achieve  a more integrated analysis of
     > the mutual roles that adaptation and mitigation can play (including some
     > analysis of their relative costs).
     >
     > This is not a formal IPCC meeting, but one of several informal discussions
     > on different topics, prior to more formal consultations planned for
     > mid-2003.
     >
     > I think we should treat this as a very informal discussion but, to give
     you
     > an idea of what to think about beforehand, may I suggest the following as
     a
     > rough agenda (there will be ppt and an overhead available):
     >
     > 1. Introduction.  Martin Parry
     >
     > 2. How adaptation was treated in the IPCC Third assessment.  Neil Adger
     (10
     > mins)
     >
     > 3. Next steps (5 mins each participant): i) (in your field) what new
     > knowledge on adaptation can be expected for AR4, from current post-TAR
     > research? ii) what new areas of research should be fostered?  iii)
     measuring
     > adaptive capacity, and its limits (eg with respect to Article 2 of the
     > UNFCCC since, when adaptive limits are exceeded, then climate change
     becomes
     > more 'dangerous'?) ; iv) measuring the costs of adaptation.
     >
     > 4. Treating adaptation as an issue in AR4. What are the alternative ways
     of
     > tackling this? Who are the 'new names' in addition to IPCC-known
     scientists
     > that AR4 should involve? (General discussion).
     >
     > The following will be attending the meeting:
     > Chris West
     > Nigel Arnell
     > Robert Nicholls
     > Neil Adger
     > Frans Berkhout
     > Sari Kovats
     > Melvin Cannell
     > Martin Parry
     > Mike Harrison
     > Paul van der Linden
     > Kathy Maskell
     > Diana Wilkins
     >
     > I look forward to seeing you on the 29th.
     >
     > Yours,
     > Martin Parry
     >
     >
     >
     > Professor Martin Parry,
     > Co-Chair Working Group 2 (Impacts and Adaptation),
     > Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
     > School of Environmental Sciences,
     > University of East Anglia,
     > Norwich NR4 7TJ,
     > United Kingdom.
     > Tel +44 1986 781437
     > Fax +44 1986 781437
     > e-mail: parryml@aol.com
     > or: martin.parry@uea.ac.uk
     >
     >
     >
     >
     >
     >

