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Regional meeting: adaptation to climate change in the Maghreb, review and outlook

  • Type: Meeting or conference
  • Date: 16-17 Mar 2010
  • Location: Casablanca (Morocco)
Organizer

Description

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. 

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

Target audience

-Researchers 

-Policy-makers 

-NGOs 

-Journalists 

How to register

Please contact Med-Saïd Karroux: KarroukSaid@Yahoo.Com 

 

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