*CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*
for sustainable production intensification
Dear Subscribers,
For your kind information.
*Amir Kassam
Moderator*
Plant Production and Protection Division
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00153 Rome
Italy
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca
*From:* [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>] *On
Behalf Of *Dr. John Norris
*Sent:* 29 April 2013 15:47
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*Subject:* Call For Paper(s) // Conference Invitation!!
5th International Climate Change Conference: London 26-30 June 2013
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Conference Focus
The Climate Change Conference is for any one with an interest in, and
concern for, scientific, policy and strategic perspectives in climate
change. It will address a range of critically important themes relating to
the vexing question of climate change. Plenary speakers will include some
of the world’s leading thinkers in the fields of climatology and
environmental science, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium
presentations by researchers and practitioners.
We are inviting proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive
sessions, posters/exhibits, or colloquia. Virtual participation is
available for those who are unable to attend the conference in person.
Proposal ideas that extend beyond these thematic areas below will also be
considered:
Theme 1: Scientific Evidence
What is evidence is there of climate change?
· Paleoclimatology: the earth’s climate in a long view
· Climate change today: examining the data
· Ice cap reduction and glacial melt
· Sea level change
· Floods, drought, forest fires, hurricanes and other sporadic events
· Albedo or measuring the earth’s reflectiveness
· Meteorology and climate informatics
· Equilibria and disequilibria: change processes and countervailing
tendencies
· Climate measurement processes, methodologies and technologies
· Reading complex, dynamic and unstable systems
· Developing local and global climate models
· Change scenarios: slow, rapid, abrupt or episodic
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Theme 2: Assessing Impacts in Divergent Ecosystems
What are the impacts of climate change on natural environments?
· Ocean currents and el Niño
· Riverine ecosystem impacts
· Mountain ecosystem impacts
· Coastal ecosystem impacts
· Marine ecosystem impacts
· Forest and grassland ecosystem impacts
· Impacts on wilderness and protected areas
· Impacts on specific biomes
· Impacts on biodiversity, potential extinctions
· Hardiness zone migration
· Regional variations: temperature and rainfall
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Theme 3: Human Impacts and Impacts on Humans
What evidence is there that human activity has contributed to climate
change, and what are the impacts of climate change on human life?
· Anthropogenic factors in climate change: determining the relative
contribution of natural and human causes
· Impacts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases
· Land use patterns, agriculture and livestock husbandry and deforestation
as factors in climate change
· Impacts on humans: agriculture, fish stocks, food supply, health
· Human settlements and sea level rise
· Impacts on humans: water resources, desertification
· Impacts on humans of intense weather events, natural disasters and
ecological surprises
· Impacts of climate change in the developing world
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Theme 4: Technical, Political and Social Responses
How do scientists, technologies, policy makers and community members
respond to climate change?
· Environmental policies in response to climate change
· Controversy and denial: politics, the media and scientists with
dissenting views
· The international politics of climate change
· The past, present and future of international agreements
· Education and awareness for management of global climate change
· Protected areas and preservation of biodiversity: ‘corridoring’ and
other strategies
· Strategies for sustainability
· Human adaptive strategies
· Technologies of mitigation: carbon dioxide sequestration, solar shades
and other processes
· Alternative and renewable energy sources: technologies, policies and
strategies
· Carbon taxes, offsets and trading
· Emission standards
· Climate ethics and the precautionary principle
· Eco-development, eco-efficiency
· Music, Climate Change, Environment and Art
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*Submissions are welcomed that cross more than one thematic area. Please
suggest additions and changes and email: **[log in to unmask]*
Access Grant Scholar Award
A limited number of Access Grant Scholar Award will be granted to
Participating Paid Delegates attending the conference to cover per
diem,flight ticket and travel insurance. For more information about the
online registration, accommodation ,access grant scholar award and venue,
please email Dr. John Norris: [log in to unmask]
Proposal Submission Deadlines for 2013 ConferenceProposals for Virtual P
resentation(s) may be submitted at any time, up to the start of the
conference on 26 June, 2013. Accepted proposals must be accompanied by a
paid registration in order to be scheduled. •Deadline for Abstract
Submission: 16 May 2013 •Notification of Acceptance: 23 May 2013 •Deadline
for Full Paper Submission & Early Registration: 30 May 2013 • Conference
Dates: 26-30 June, 2013.
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