Regional Meeting: Adaptation to Climate Change in the Maghreb: Review and Outlook

The "Regional Meeting: Adaptation to Climate Change in the Maghreb: Review and Outlook", will be organized by the National Committee of IGBP Morocco, in 16-17 March 2010 in Casablanca, with the CCAA support from IDRC.

This meeting has three objectives:

• Strengthen the ability of scientists, organizations, policymakers and other stakeholders to contribute to adaptation to climate change;
• Encourage better understanding of the findings of scientists and research organizations in regard to climate variability and climate change;
• To provide policy makers the scientific data of good quality.

Target Audience:

• Researchers
• Policy-makers
• NGOs
• Journalists

This meeting is held on the sidelines of the UN Conference on Climate Change, scheduled at the Copenhagen Summit of December 7 to 18, 2009.

The axes of this meeting are:

• Adaptation to environmental security in the Maghreb (extreme heat, water resources, drought, floods, desertification, forest fires, coastal erosion and continental, health, biodiversity)
• Adaptation of food security in the Maghreb (agriculture: spatial, species, new agricultural regional distribution, etc.)
• Adaptation of energy security in the Maghreb (energy efficiency, renewable energy, socio economic, etc.)
• Reality of adaptation to the Maghreb countries; statements places: constraints and challenges

Dates to remember:

• Submission of abstracts before: Janvier, 15, 2010
• Correction to authors: February, 1, 2010
• Final program on:                    February, 15, 2010
• Sending full text before:           March, 1, 2010
• Holding of the meeting:            16-17 March 2010