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The conference will bring together 100 international experts to discuss the impacts of climate change, its negative effects on the availability and quality of our water supply and on our entire built environment, and plausible solutions.
The University of Regina, in partnership with the UN Water for Life Decade in Canada and University of Texas in Austin, with additional support/involvement of North China Electric Power University, is hosting the conference “Storm Warning: Water, Energy, and Climate Security in a Changing World.”
- What is known and what is unknown about fluctuations in water availability and climate since Paleolithic times?
- What can be learned and what cannot be learned from models or forecasts of climate, based on ‘downscaling’ from global to local scales as well as insufficiently articulated feedback loops and other second order effects?
- What can be known about future water security by examining water and climate fluctuations in the context of glacial activity and changes in snow pack and snow cover over time?
- What can be learned and what cannot be learned from models or forecasts of climate, based on ‘downscaling’ from global to local scales as well as insufficiently articulated feedback loops and other second order effects?
- What is known and not known about the real costs of adaptation to extreme climate events?
- How are Asian nations contributing to addressing global water, energy and climate security?
The desired outcome of this conference is to create leadership amongst the attendees and make recommendations regarding research areas for future funding and policies to address climate change to national governments.
http://www.stormwarning2012.ca/