Are you living in a climate hot spot? New World Bank report guides your city on what to do if you are. You are invited to attend the Asia-Pacific-wide launch of a new World Bank report called “Climate Resilient Cities” – the first report of its kind designed to help city planners and administrators to identify vulnerabilities and prepare for extreme climate events.

Date 

Wednesday August 6, 2008 at 12 noon to 1pm 

Venue 

World Bank Tokyo Office          Map  
10th floor, Fukoku Seimei Building, 2-2-2 Uchisaiwicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
(Uchisaiwaicho Station on Subway Mita Line, or Kasumigaeki Station on Subway Chiyoda, Marunouchi, Hibiya Lines)

Speaker 

Neeraj Prasad, Lead Environment Specialist, East Asia and Pacific Region, The World Bank    

Speaker’s Profile
Neeraj Prasad  is the regional Coordinator for the East Asia Carbon Finance portfolio and for Climate Change.   In this assignment, he is responsible for managing and delivering the Bank’s largest Carbon Finance portfolio of CDM projects, and is coordinating a climate change strategy for the region as well. He also continues to manage several environment projects.  Before joining the Bank in 1997, he was a member of the Indian Administrative Service, where his final assignment was in the Indian Ministry of Finance.  He was also seconded to the Indian ED’s office in the IMF from 1993-96.  He has graduate degrees in International Commerce and History.

Language will be English (no translation into Japanese).  You are welcome to attend (free of charge).  Please register on-line or send email with your name, affiliation and contact information to komori@worldbank.org

The launch event will link eight video-conferencing sites in the Asia-Pacific region with the report’s authors in Washington DC. After a short presentation, participants will be invited to ask questions of the panel of experts.

Inquiries

Koichi Omori, World Bank Tokyo Office, Phone 03-3597-6650, komori@worldbank.org