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Greetings from C-CIARN Agriculture, We have revised a number of resources on our web site. Check them out The bibliographic database now contains 665 entries that are relevant for climate change impacts and adaptation. It is in an endnote file that is best downloaded through Microsoft Explorer. Anyone wishing a copy of this file, but unable to get it from our web page, just needs to contact us and we’ll send it directly to them. Our media database has also been revised to include over 1600 items from January 2002 to June 2005. Any ideas for how to improve these resources or other aspects of our web site are most welcome. Please contact Ellen Wall (ewall@uoguelph.ca)with your comments and suggestions. 1. Shen, Sam, Huamei, Karen Cannon, Allen Howard, Shane Chetner, and Tom Karl. 2005 . “Temporal and Spatial Changes of the Agroclimate in Alberta, Canada, from 1901 to 2002." Journal of Applied Meteorology, 44(7): 1090-1105. 2. Baumert, Kevin, Jonathan Pershing and Timothy Herzog. 2005. New Report: Climate Data: A Sectoral Perspective (August ) World Resources Institute 3. Broken, Vijendra K., Arthur P. Cracknell, and Ronald L. Heatcote (Eds.). 2005. Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought. Oxford University Press. 1. COP 11 28 November to 9 December 2005 Palais des Congrès de Montréal Montréal, Québec Canada will host the first meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol in Montréal in conjunction with the eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention. Access site COP 11 Parallel Event Adaptive Capacity for Food Security in a Changing Climate Dec 2, 2005 Guy Favreaux Centre, Montreal Quebec Room and time to be confirmed The program is being developed and will be made available to C-CIARN Agriculture members soon. All sessions during the parallel events are open to the public. NOTE: **United Nations Climate Change Conference, Montreal 2005 – Youth Participants** A coalition of environmental youth groups headed by ENvironnement JEUnesse, in association with Environment Canada’s Biosphere and the United Nations Association of Canada, is holding an international youth summit that will bring 50 Canadian and 40 International young people together to engage the next generation in working to fight climate change. From the Summit Team, 10 Canadian and 16 international youth will participate in the two week long UN Conference on Climate Change, Montréal 2005 as accredited observers. The application form is available online at www.beyondkyoto.org The deadline for submissions is October 3 for International applicants and October 10, 2005 for Canadian applicants. 2. South African National Conference on Climate Change South Africa will be hosting its first National Conference on Climate Change from 17 to 20 October 2005. The event will be held at the Gallagher Estate Conference Centre in Johannesburg, and will be composed of two related parallel sessions: the Science Conference, scheduled to start on 17 October 2005 and the Consultative Conference scheduled to start on 18 October 2005. The overall objective of the event is that: "All South Africans are in formed about all aspects of climate change from a Global, African and South African perspective and are empowered to consider climate change mitigation and adaptation in all their endeavours and spheres of influence". More information about this event will be available in our website BILATERAL RESEARCH COOPERATION WITH NORWAY This call for proposals encompasses all disciplines and subject areas. The closing date for submitting proposals is October 13. The Norwegian strategy for S&T cooperation with North America was launched in 2004, in an effort to increase transatlantic R&D cooperation. The Research Council of Norway (RCN) established the Bilateral Research Cooperation initiative and has issued a call for proposals for (i) mobility grants; and (ii) research grants for conducting pre-projects and seed funding to initiate collaborations. The Leiv Eiriksson Mobility Programme supports Outbound Mobility (from Norway to Canada) and Inbound Mobility (from Canada to Norway). Canadian researchers can access funds through the Inbound Mobility program. Canadian researchers should submit their proposal through their potential host institution in Norway. Support is granted to cover the additional costs of research stays of three to ten months' duration in Norway. Support is granted in the form of a travel subsidy, a monthly grant for operating costs, and a monthly living allowance. Stays of three to ten months in Norway must commence after January 1st, 2006. For further information, please visit the website and/or contact your Norwegian host institution. Climate Change Specialist Head of IPCC AR4 Synthesis Report Technical Support Unit The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was set up in 1988 to provide periodic assessments of the current scientific understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and the range of possible response strategies. The IPCC is currently preparing its 4th Assessment Report (AR4) due for publication in 2007. The assessment work of the Panel is divided among three Working Groups (WG), covering climate science, impacts and adaptation, and mitigation. Each of these areas will be assessed in individual volumes. In addition a Synthesis Report (SYR) will be prepared which will draw on each of the three reports and provide a synthesis of all the results and address cross cutting issues. A senior climate change specialist, reporting directly to the Chair of the IPCC, is required to coordinate the production of the SYR. He/she will head a Technical Support Unit (TSU), which will manage the process of producing the SYR. More information from: Dr Renate Christ, Secretary of the IPCC IPCC Secretariat 7 bis, Avenue de la Paix CH 1211 Geneva 2 SWITZERLAND Phone: +41 22 730 8574 Fax: +41 22 730 8025 E-mail: rchrist@wmo.int For a digest of news on Katrina’s impact on agriculture visit our news page All for now, Ellen Wall (ewall@uoguelph.ca) Co-ordinator, C-CIARN Agriculture (Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network for Agriculture) Blackwood Hall (Room 202) University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1 Phone: 519 824 4120 ext 58480 Fax: 519 763 4686 http://www.c-ciarn.uoguelph.ca |
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