WEDNESDAY  MARCH 5, 2008

MORNING SESSION – OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

CHAIR: 
Kristalina Georgieva
Acting Vice President, Sustainable Development Network,  World Bank

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 
The Importance of  Social Dimensions of Climate Change
Bob Watson
Chief Scientist, Department for Environment and Rural Affairs, Government of the United Kingdom
Former Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (which was awarded the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 
Conflict Related Aspects of Climate Change
Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell
Former Prime Minister of Canada and
Former Secretary General to the Club of Madrid

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
The Human Dimension of Climate Change in the
Maldives and Small Island States
Her Excellency Dunya Maumoon
Deputy Foreign Minister, Republic of the Maldives

CHAIR:
Steen  Jorgensen
Director, Social Development Department
World Bank

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Former Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Conference

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Challenges of Climate Change
Mitigation and Adaptation in Africa
Dr. Ibrahim Mayaki
Former Prime Minister of Niger
Current Executive Director of Rural Hub, Africa

Acknowledging the Linkages
Gender and Climate Change

PRESENTER: 
Lorena Aguilar
Senior Advisor on Gender
The World Conservation Union

MODERATOR: 
Mayra Buvinic
Sector Director, Poverty Reduction Gender Department
World Bank

END OF OPEN SESSION 

WEDNESDAY,  
MARCH 5, 2008

TECHNICAL RESEARCH WORKSHOPS 

OPEN TO ALL BANK STAFF
BY INVITATION ONLY TO EXTERNAL PARTICIPANTS

WORKSHOP I
WITH  Q&A
2:15 - 4:15 pm

Implications of Climate Change for Conflict and Migration

PRESENTERS:
Implications of Climate Change for Armed Conflict
Halvard Buhaug
Senior Researcher
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo

Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Migration and Conflict
Clionadh Raleigh
Guest Senior Researcher
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo

DISCUSSANT:
Don Nelson
Tyndall Research Center on Climate Change
University of East Anglia

Elizabeth Ferris
Senior Fellow and Co-Director
Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement
Brookings Institution

MODERATOR:
Kyle Peters
Director, Country Services
World Bank

WORKSHOP II
WITH Q&A
4:30 – 5:45 pm

Climate Change and Urban Governance and Social Policy

PRESENTER
Pro-Poor Climate Change Adaptation in the Urban Centre of Low and Middle-Income Countries
Caroline Moser
Director
Global Urban Research Centre
School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester

DISCUSSANTS:
Junaid Ahmed
Sector Manager, South Asia Region
World Bank

Esther Mwaura-Muiru
Founder and Director, GROOTS Kenya
Steering Committee Member, UNDP Equator Initiative

MODERATOR:
Abha Joshi-Ghani
Sector Manager, Urban Development
World Bank

Key Messages Emerging from Day 1

MODERATOR:
Caroline Kende-Robb
Sector Manager, Social Development Department
World Bank

COCKTAIL RECEPTION
6:00 pm onward

12TH floor – MC Building

INTRODUCTION: 
Kristalina Georgieva
Acting Vice President, Sustainable Development Network
World Bank

SPEAKER:
Graeme Wheeler
Managing Director
World Bank

THURSDAY  MARCH 6, 2008

Implications of Climate Change for
Rural Institutions and Drylands

PRESENTERS:
The Role of Local Institutions in Adaptation to Climate Change
Arun Agrawal
Associate Professor
School of Natural Resources and Environment
University of Michigan

Climate Change and Agrarian Societies in Drylands
John Morton
Social Anthropologist
National Resources Institute

DISCUSSANTS:
Ren Wang
Director
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
World Bank

Peter D. Little
Professor
Anthropology and Rural Sociology
University of Kentucky

MODERATOR:
Camilla Toulmin
Director
International Institute for Environment and Development

Implications of Climate Change for Social Policy

PRESENTER:
Climate Change, Human Vulnerability and Social Risk Management
Steen Jorgensen
Director, Social Development Department
World Bank

DISCUSSANTS:
Sergei Zelenev
Chief, Social Integration Branch
Department of Economics & Social Affairs
United Nations

Shanta Devarajan
Chief Economist, South Asia Vice President Office
World Bank

MODERATOR:
Ruth Kagia
Sector Director, Human Development Network
World Bank

Social Aspects of Mitigation (panel discussion)

PRESENTERS/DISCUSSANTS:
Andy White
Coordinator
Rights & Resources Initiative

Joelle Chassard
Manager, Carbon Finance Unit
World Bank

MODERATOR:
Juergen Voegele
Director, Agriculture & Rural Development
World Bank

Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change

PRESENTER:
Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: High Vulnerability and  Unique Challenges
Navin K. Rai
Lead Specialist, Social Development Department and
Indigenous Peoples Coordinator
World Bank

DISCUSSANTS:

Rebecca Adamson
President
First Peoples Worldwide

Dennis Martinez
Co-Chair
Indigenous Peoples’ Restoration Network of
The Society for Ecological Restoration International


MODERATOR:
Isabel Guerrero
Country Director, India
World Bank

CLOSING SESSION
WITH Q&A

4:30 - 5:15 pm

5:15-6:00pm

CHAIR:
Kristalina Georgieva
Acting Vice President, Sustainable Development Network
World Bank

PRESENTERS:
Wrap Up – Operational Implications
Caroline Kende-Robb
Sector Manager, Social Development Department
World Bank

Caroline Moser
Director
Global Urban Research Centre
School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester

Discussants:
Ellen Wratten
Department for International Development, UK

Hans Olav Ibrekk
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

Closing Remarks
Steen Jorgensen
Director, Social Development Department
World Bank