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SUMMARY:ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE: NECESSITIES AND PRIORITIES - Professor
  Martin Parry\, Chair\, IPCC's Task Group on Scenarios for Climate Impact 
 Assessment
DTSTART:20090113T170000Z
DTEND:20090113T180000Z
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DESCRIPTION:The 2007 assessment of the IPCC has given us a clearer picture
  of the likely impacts of climate change\, but only since then has there b
 een a comparable analysis of the damages that might be avoided under varyi
 ng amounts of emissions reduction.  This now gives us a picture of the dam
 age that will need to be avoided by adaptation\, but information on feasib
 ility and cost of adaptation is even more limited.  Current estimates of t
 he funding needed for adaptation are in the range $50-150 billion annually
  by 2030.  But these probably represent a colossal under-estimate.\n\nAll 
 welcome to  join further discussion over drinks\n\nMartin Parry is Visitin
 g Professor at the Grantham Institute and Centre for Environmental Policy\
 , Imperial College London. He was Co-Chair of the IPCC’s 2007 Impacts an
 d Adaptation Assessment (Working Group II). Formerly he was Professor of G
 eography at the Universities of Oxford\, University College London and Bir
 mingham\; and Professor of Environmental Science at the University of East
  Anglia.  He has published about 140 scientific papers and 5 books on clim
 ate change impacts.  His specific research interests are on climate change
  and agriculture. 
LOCATION:St Edmund’s College\, Garden Room
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