Past Events

Every four years, through its Congress, the International Peat Society provides an opportunity for peatland and peat scientists and practitioners to share knowledge and experience with the wider peatland family. It also provides opportunities for personal interaction, informal meetings and exchanges of view, and to see the faces behind the e-mails of the previous four years.
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The 28th sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is scheduled to take place in Bonn, Germany from 2-13 June 2008.

The 28th sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) – are scheduled to take place from 2-13 June 2008, in Bonn, Germany. In addition, the second meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action, a new body established at COP 13 in Bali, is expected to be held alongside the SBI and SBSTA. The resumed fifth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol will also be held at the same time.

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The workshop will address both mitigation of and adaptation to climate change. Within international assistance, most climate change interventions have aimed to ensure sustainable development through efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, countries need to adapt to upcoming changes in temperature, rainfall, sea levels and weather patterns. more info

The Event will explore the issues that lie at the heart of corporate sustainability, global energy and environment priorities, emerging environmental markets, and the future of sustainable urban development. more info

The conference format will also involve representatives of the particular actor groups such as businesses, civil society and NGOs, politics and the natural and social sciences to integrate their particular expertise. more info

The series of courses aims to train and educate advanced doctoral students and young researchers about the latest theoretical developments and empirical and practical implications from the field. more info

Land use and land cover change are both driver and target of physical and social components of the earth system. Economic, political, demographic and cultural forces together with climate and other environmental drivers (e.g. soil fertility and water availability) influence decision making and lead to changes in land cover and land use. In turn, land cover and land use affect the biophysical and biochemical processes of the earth system (e.g. via albedo, heat fluxes, surface roughness, emissions, water fluxes) and thereby modify the environmental setting (e.g. climate, climate variability, soils, water availability) societies are embedded in.
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Forest Day comes at an important time in climate change discussions, with forests being at the very centre of international climate debate. Accordingly Forest Day holds the opportunity to bring together all of the forest-related side events that would otherwise be scattered throughout the two week period of the COP. more info

The Bureau decided to accept the offer by the Government of Indonesia to host the Conference of the Parties (COP 13) and the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 3) in Nusa Dua, Bali, 3 to 14 December 2007. more info

The 27th Session of the IPCC is scheduled on 12 -16 November 2007 in Valencia- Spain. The session will focus on the adoption of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). more info

The World Energy Congress is widely recognised as the premier global all-energy event on the calendar and has been running since 1924. more info

The workshop intend to to bring together young scientists from various disciplines and methodical backgrounds to chart the course on new issues for corporate sustainability. more info

The SOLAS Summer School is a biennial, international event that brings together over 70 students and 20 lectures for a mix of lectures and practical workshops. It aims to teach the skills and knowledge of the many disciplines needed to understand the nature of ocean-atmosphere interactions. more info

WWF will host the second annual Science for Nature Symposium in Washington, DC October 18-19, 2007. The symposium will be focused on the science behind Reducing Emissions from Deforestation (RED). more info

The conference wants to put ongoing discussions about the state of the CDM into the context of the international negotiations on a post-2012 climate treaty. The discussion will be on programmatic and policy-based, baseline and credit types as well as separately funded sustainable development policies. These discussions will be analysed with regard to the UN summit in Bali just a few weeks later. more info

This topical conference, the eighth in a highly successful series, will provide an invaluable update on all the major developments shaping the fast-moving markets in carbon credits and allowances.
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GREENHOUSE 2007 is a unique opportunity to hear the latest findings in climate science, and discuss the implications for Australia and the region.The conference will focus on projections for the future; the use of probabilities for risk management; the impact climate change will have on human activity; and changing perceptions of climate change. more info

The Event has been developed to examine the emerging opportunities in this new global market. This conference will provide attendees with countless business development and networking opportunities, real investment prospects and an action plan for profitable growth. more info

CcSP introduced the concept of "climate proofing" and it has successfully triggered a nation-wide debate on climate adaptation. This debate has led to the development of a national wide policy plan on climate adaptation and additional funding for a more design oriented research programme on adaptation and planning. more info

Thirty-six recent Ph.D. graduates will be competitively selected to present their research in both oral and poster format and participate in the week-long symposium. more info

The Latin American Carbon Forum is a unique regional platform, which brings together the various stakeholders that are active in the carbon market – project owners and developers, National CDM Offices and Investment Promotion Agencies, CDM governance bodies, as well as carbon market intermediaries and service providers. more info

This International Symposium will present the most up to date scientific information on tropical peatlands, especially their role in the global carbon cycle and levels of GHGs released by them as a result of deforestation, drainage, land use change and fire. more info

The conference addresses global and regional modelling for the past, present and future, as well as Earth system observations and reconstructions. more info

The meeting aims at discussing (using modelling and proxy records) East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM) in aspects related to ocean, atmosphere, land surface, climate and biosphere, its human impacts and teleconnections worldwide. more info

Contacts :
Zhongli Ding
André Berger

The fourth workshop of the 'Dialogue on long-term cooperative action to address climate change by enhancing implementation of the Convention' and the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group (AWG), on Further Commitments for Annex I parties under the Kyoto Protocol are expected to take place from 27-31 August 2007, in Vienna, Austria. more info

The Summer School invites young researchers from all fields of climate and climate impact research. The courses cover a broad spectrum of climate impact research issues and foster cross-disciplinary links. more info

The meeting will bring together a number of regional and international expertises working on carbon cycle sciences in the African continent.
 
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Guy Midgley,
Pep Canadell,
Shobhakar Dhakal

The conference may investigate questions such as: How can the increased concern for climate security best be tranlated into effective programmes to create a low carbon economy? How can scientific advances be translated into effective energy saving? What financial and regulatory mechanisms are needed? Which different strategies are needed in both North and South? more info

Abstract submissions are invited for the following topics: Adaptation and mitigation, Energy security, Geopolitics of natural gas, Global energy resources, Micro-credits and energy development ("Energization"), Social sciences and energy scenarios, The European Emissions Trading Scheme, UNFCCC/Post-2012 regimes and Uncertainty and probabilities in E3 (energy-economy-environment) modeling. more info

The IGEC is a multi–disciplinary international conference on the use of energy with no or reduced environmental impact and will provide a forum for the exchange of latest technical information, for the dissemination of the high-quality research results. more info

This small workshop will focus on understanding decision making on land-use issues, in order to move towards modelling these processes in Earth System Models. more info

A landmark 1.5 day conference examining the latest developments in Carbon Trading in Australia with a particular focus on the opportunities, risks and likely impacts on companies. more info

The conference will provide a platform to explore the scientific, technical and socio-economic issues relevant to the understanding of human induced climate change, assess its potential impacts, propose mitigation and adaptation measures, and to develop strategies to implement these measures. more info

CARBON EXPO is the global carbon market event that combines the up-to-date content af a high-level conference with the advantages of a trade fair. You can present your company, your technology, services and/or your projects to potential business partners from all over the world. Interact with real market players representing supply and demand in the carbon market. CARBON EXPO is the place for business in the carbon market. more info

This conference will be the seventh event in the series of annual European Conferences on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, begun in Berlin in 2001. This year’s conference will address the theme ‘Earth System Governance: Theories and Strategies for Sustainability’ more info

The Marie Curie Summer School on Earth System Governance aims to help students to better understand the causes of global change in an integrated manner and at the same time to develop options for the governance of a transition to more sustainable development paths at the national and global levels. It brings together insights from the modeling, integrated assessment, and sustainability science communities and from the social science, governance-oriented research communities. more info

We invite contributions from experimental, remote sensing and modeling studies that attempt to quantify impacts of land use change on carbon and water cycling. more info

The Summer School aims to provide an overview of scientific knowledge with respect to the most important processes in the climate system. The emphasis will be on the environmental pressure caused by human activities, the state of the environment, and the environmental impacts. This course is primarily meant for PhD students from the natural sciences. more info

The 15th European Biomass Conference & Exhibition - From Research to Market Deployment - Biomass for Energy, Industry and Climate Protection will take place in Germany. Over 1,200 participants from more than 70 countries are expected to attend and learn about the latest breakthroughs in the field. The Exhibition, taking place in parallel with the Conference, will feature the foremost companies and state-of-the-art products in the Biomass industry. more info

The 26th Session of the IPCC is scheduled on 4 May 2007, in Bangkok-Thailand. more info

CARBON EXPO is the global carbon market event that combines the up-to-date content af a high-level conference with the advantages of a trade fair. You can present your company, your technology, services and/or your projects to potential business partners from all over the world. Interact with real market players representing supply and demand in the carbon market. CARBON EXPO is the place for business in the carbon market. more info

The impacts of climate change on coastal areas and river deltas may hamper significantly the developmental and demographic security. Anticipated climate changes will greatly amplify risks to these areas and populations Contact

In April 2003, these topics were addressed in the successful Framing Land Use Dynamics I conference. The second conference offers a renewed platform for the exchange of insights regarding land use changes in urbanised societies, potential conflicts resulting from these changes and possible solutions. more info

The symposium aims to bring together leading scientists of different disciplinary fields to summarise the state-of-the-art in recent research related to carbon cycling in peatlands, to define directions of future research and to facilitate transfer of knowledge between disciplines. more info

Once again international Carbon Markets experts will meet in Rio de Janeiro to address the challenges and opportunities of launching new carbon mitigation projects across the region. more info

World Biofuels Markets will provide the best possible platform to network, learn and do business with the international biofuels community. more info

The Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) international research initiative aims to achieve quantitative understanding of the key biogeochemical-physical interactions and feedbacks between the ocean and the atmosphere and to understand how this coupled system affects and is affected by climate and environmental change. more info

This meeting explores land-atmosphere and ocean-atmosphere interactions and the role that Earth Observation is playing in improving our understanding of the complex feedbacks involved. An important aim is to foster greater links between the terrestrial and oceanographic research communities. Three themes are to be addressed: Variability in Time; Variability in Space; Climate and the Biosphere. more info

The Topic of the conference is "Integrated Sustainable Energy Resources in Arid Regions". While the focus of the exhibition is on Air, Energy, Water, and Waste, providing an ideal platform to promote products and services that relate to these very important elements.

The Pew Center is proud to partner with Point Carbon to bring to Washington, D.C. a unique event designed to help facilitate learning about the developing international and domestic carbon market.

The 2007 Annual Meeting is being organized around the broad theme of "Bridging the Studies of Weather and Climate." The purpose of this meeting is to explore the elements common to weather and climate and to strengthen the links between respective studies. Two integrating sub-themes that will be highlighted are "Climate Variations and Change Manifested by Changes in Weather" and "Climate Aspects of Hydrometeorology."

The workshop will bring together experts in the area of climate and land degradation presenting stateof- the-art papers, real world applications and innovative techniques for combating land degradation, and offering recommendations for effectively using weather and climate information for sustainable land management practices. more info

The Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC)Conference purpose is to harvest important findings and harmonize results in order to document and publish major advances in the state of knowledge in well-defined research areas. more info

Asian terrestrial ecosystem is uninterrupted from arctic to tropical zone, and the monsoon causes intense rainfall in growing season of plants. These characters exist in no other area in the world. AsiaFlux is a voluntary association of researchers who promote flux study in this unique area. The workshop will discuss flux and biogeochemical dynamics from aspects of observation, modeling and scaling-up methodology.

The Symposium is sponsored by the Inter-Research Science Center. The discussion themes will include: earth systems and climate change; climate change and human history; ecology and biodiversity; economics and climate change; political responses to climate change; and, coastal disaster response, risk assessment and reconstruction.

This symposium aims to achieve this goal by inviting researchers from a broad range of related disciplines and by encouraging those most directly concerned, decision makers and stakeholders, to work together on long term cooperative solutions to the problems which will have to be faced.

The workshop will focus on the broad context on carbon sequestration and rural development. The workshop will address issues on enhancing the carbon sink, reducing vulnerability of land use systems and opening new markets for rural development.

The 2006 conference will be the sixth event in the series of annual Berlin Conferences. This year’s discussions will address the theme ‘Resource Policies: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity’. more info

The workshop main objective is to promote GCP and GWSP-related research programs in SARCS member countries, and to provide advanced training on the carbon measurement, water resources, monitoring and modeling techniques, as well as to develop a GCP and GWSP research collaboration team within SARCS. more info