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Climate change as an opportunity for conservationists to build new alliances
A WORKSHOP AT THE 4th IUCN WORLD CONSERVATION CONGRESS
BARCELONA, CATALONIA, SPAIN, OCTOBER 2008
Sponsored by: California Institute of Public Affairs InterClimate Network IUCN/WCPA Cities Task Force World Academy of Art and Science (See description of sponsors below) |
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This workshop will be held on Wednesday, 8 October from 14:30 to 16:00 during the Forum segment (6-9 October 2008) of the World Conservation Congress to be held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The workshop relates to several larger initiatives. A publication will result.
The World Conservation Congress, held every four years by IUCN, www.iucn.org, is the world’s largest and most diverse conservation event. In Barcelona, 10,000 participants are expected. For details, see www.iucn.org/congress.
Climate change is a threat multiplier and a threat accelerator. It interacts with many other global trends.
Because it cuts across the interests of so many constituencies, climate change offers an opportunity for conservationists to build new alliances. However, such alliances are not easy to build or sustain. Global problems tend to be addressed one by one in separate communities of organizations and experts. Each such community has its own outlook, culture, and priorities.
The first half of this workshop will discuss existing alliances and keys to success.
The second half of the workshop will examine a specific challenge and opportunity. The challenge is involving the "successor generation" in climate change solutions. The opportunity is a new international partnership organization, InterClimate Network, that will build alliances with schools and universities aimed at engaging those under 25 years of age, especially 16-19-year-olds, in finding solutions to causes and effects of climate change in their local areas.
The discussion will center on urban educational institutions, especially in the five countries and regions where InterClimate Network will initially work (see below).
In addition to contributing to World Conservation Congress debates, this event will be one of several "launches" of InterClimate Network around the world, this one oriented toward the global nature conservation community. A Congress exhibit and press conference are related. WORKSHOP FORMAT AND PANELISTS Format The chair will give a brief introduction and sum up at the end. To facilitate interaction, panel members will not give formal presentations, and PowerPoint will not be used. Rather, the moderator will ask questions of the panelists, call on the audience for comments and questions, and move discussion toward conclusions and next steps. Panelists (all confirmed as of 4 June 2008) Note: In inviting panelists, emphasis has been given to the five countries and regions in which InterClimate Network (see below) will be working initially: · India (State of Maharashtra, including Mumbai and Pune) · Ke nya (Nairobi, Nakuru, and other regions) · South Africa (Cape region) · UK (a region of England centered on Birmingham, Oxford, and Bristol) · USA (State of California, areas to be determined)
Workshop chair: Ted Trzyna (USA), CIPA President; WAAS Fellow and Board Member; IUCN Cities Task Force Leader; former IUCN Councillor; Senior Adviser and steering committee member, InterClimate Network Workshop moderator: Dan Mazmanian (USA), Professor, Bedrosian Chair in Governance, and Director, Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise, University of Southern California; CIPA Senior Associate John Davidson (UK), Executive Director, InterClimate Network; Deputy Leader, IUCN Cities Task Force; CIPA Senior Associate Ali Aliraza Kaka (Kenya), Director, East African Wild Life Society; Regional Vice Chair for East Africa, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Barney Kgope (South Africa), Principal Scientist, Global Change Research Group, South African National Biodiversity Institute K. Vijaya Lakshmi (India), Vice President, Development Alternatives Linda McMillan (USA), business consultant; recreation advocate; Deputy Vice Chair, Mountains Biome, IUCN/WCPA; member, IUCN Cities Task Force and U.S. Government’s California Recreation Resources Advisory Committee Jeff McNeely, Chief Scientist, IUCN; WAAS Fellow Pedro da Cunha e Menezes (Brazil), Diplomat, Brazilian Embassy, Lisbon, Portugal; Deputy Leader, IUCN Cities Task Force Adrian Phillips (UK), leader in international and British conservation organizations; former IUCN Councillor WORKSHOP SPONSORS California Institute of Public Affairs (CIPA, www.cipahq.org), an IUCN member since 1980. CIPA proposed the workshop and is responsible for it. It provides the secretariat for the IUCN Cities Task Force, as it has for many other IUCN activities, and is a partner organization in InterClimate. CIPA and climate change.
InterClimate Network, a new UK-based international initiative for education and local community involvement in climate change solutions. Details to be announced.
IUCN Cities Task Force (www.citiesandconservation.org), part of IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas. The task force is concerned with implementing a broad-ranging IUCN resolution on cities and conservation.
World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS, www.worldacademy.org), a network of 700 Fellows from diverse cultures, nationalities, and intellectual disciplines “chosen for eminence in art, the natural and social sciences, and the humanities.” WAAS Fellows include several people who have been prominent in IUCN. The Academy has chosen as a central theme the practical implications of “humanity’s entrance into a new evolutionary epoch: the Anthropocene, so named in recognition of humanity’s enormous involvement in – and responsibility for – the future of all life on Earth.”
For further information, contact Ted Trzyna via www.cipahq.org WCC4 Event 285
California Institute of Public Affairs P.O. Box 189040 Sacramento, California 95818, USA Tel. (1 916) 442-2472 - Fax on request
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