The events were sponsored by AIACC and locally hosted and organized by Southeast Asia START Regional Centre.

Workshop Documents

• Workshop Summary and Rapporteur Notes [PDF / MS Word]
• Open Meeting Agenda (Final) [PDF / MS Word]
• Regional Workshop Agenda (Final) [PDF / MS Word]
• Logistical Information for Participants [PDF ]
• Participant List (Final) [PDF / MS Excel]

Powerpoint Presentations from the Workshop

[Clicking on the links below will open Powerpoint files. Please note that the presentations made at the workshop and posted here are preliminary results from ongoing research. None of the material should be cited or quoted without contacting the author.]

Day 1 (Open Meeting, Monday, March 24)

• Welcome, Meeting Objectives and AIACC Overview (Anond Snidvongs and Neil Leary)
• Keynote (Mr.Chartree Chueyprasit, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Thailand)

Planning for Adaptation in the Asia-Pacific Region

• Climate change impacts, ada ptation and policie s in China (Dr. Erda Lin)
• UNFCCC National Communications Program and New Guidelines (Mr. Graham Sem)
• Climate change adaptation projects in Asia (Ravi Sharma)

AIACC Regional Studies in Asia-Pacific Region

• Grasslands and livestock of Mongolia (AS06) (Batima Punsalmaa)
• Water resources and hydrological extremes of Mekong River Basin (AS07) (Anond Snidvongs)
• Plantation agriculture of Sri Lanka (AS12) (Janaka Ratnasiri)
• Water resources, forests and communities of watersheds of the Philippines and Indonesia (AS21) (Prof Rodel Lasco)
• An integrated assessment approach for vulnerability and adaptation assessment in Western China (AS25) (Yongyuan Yin)
• Integrated methods and models for assessing coastal vulnerability in Fiji and the Cook Islands (SIS09) (Patrick Nunn and Richard Warrick)

Panel 1: Key Vulnerabilities, Information Needs and Capacity Needs

• T.K. Fernando, Director of GEF Enabling Activity in Sri Lanka
• Ms. Ma. Gerarda Asuncion D. Merilo, Senior Environmental Management Specialist, Interagency Committee on Climate Change Secretariat, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Philippines
• Ms. Ngo Cam Thanh, Centre for Environment, Research Education and Development, Indochina Global Change Network
• Suruchi Bhadwal, Centre for Global Environment Research, TERI, India

Panel 2: Adaptation Opportunities, Barriers and Strategies

• Nguyen Mong Cuong, Team Leader on Vulnerability and Adaptation for National Communication of Vietnam
• Glenn Dolcemascolo, Asia Disaster Preparedness Center
• Pasha Carruthers, Research and Technical Environment Officer, Climate Change, Cook Islands
• Daniel Murdiyarso, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia

Closing of the Meeting

• Will Steffen, Executive Director, IGBP
• Neil Leary, AIACC

Day 2 (Regional Workshop, Tuesday, March 25)

Plenary I: Opening of AIACC Asia-Pacific Region Workshop

• Welcome, logistics – Anond Snidvongs
• Findings of the IPCC Third Ass essment Report – Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of IPCC and Director of TERI
• Workshop Objectives – Neil Leary
• AIACC/CCSR Web Database – Alex de Sherbinin, CIESIN

Carousels:

• Linking AIACC to Policy and Stakeholders
• Planning for AIACC Summary and Synthesis Outputs
• Building Upon AIACC - A 2nd Phase of Capacity Building?

Parallel Sessions A: Data, Trends and Scenarios

A1: Climate data, trends & scenarios

• Speaker 1: P. Batima and P. Gomboluudev (AS06). Climate scenarios for Mongolia.
• Speaker 2: Senaka Basnayake (AS12). Climate Data, Trends & Scenarios - the Sri Lankan situation
• Speaker 3: Xianfu Lu (SIS09). A flexible sea level scenario generator

A2: Socioeconomic & environmental data, trends & scenarios

• Speaker 1: Neil Fernando (AS12). Climate Change and Socio -economic Impacts of the Plantation Sector
• Speaker 2: Juan Pulhin (AS21). Climate change and watershed communities: methodologies for assessing social impact, vulnerability and adaptation.

Day 3 (Regional Workshop, Wednesday, March 26)

Parallel Sessions B: Climate Sensitivities and Impacts

B1: Food, agriculture, grazing, land cover & use

• Speaker 1: Attachai Jintrawet (AS07). Modelling rice yields in the Mekong River basin.
• Speaker 2: B. Bolortsetseg (AS06).Climate effects on grazing and livestock in Mongolia.

B2: Water resources, watersheds, coasts

• Speaker 1: Suppakorn Chinvanno (AS07). Results from regional climate modeling and their future use in analysis of hydrologic impacts in Mekong River Basin.
• Speaker 2: Ahsan Uddin Ahmed. Sensitivity of Water Resources of Bangladesh to Climate Variability and Change

Tutorial Session 2

Parallel Sessions C: Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity

C1: Food, agriculture, grazing, land cover & use
Speaker 1: M A Wijeratne (AS12) Effect of Temperature, Rainfall and CO2 on productivity of tea plantations in different agro-ecological regions in Sri Lanka
Speaker 2: Suruchi Bhadwal, TERI. Vulnerability of Indian agriculture to climate change and globalization: methodology from the CIDA study

C2: Water resources, watersheds, coasts

Speaker 1: Zhongmin Xu (AS25). Identifying ecosystem vulnerability in the Heihe River region.
Speaker 2: Patrick Nunn (SIS09). Vulnerability and adaptive capacity in the archipelagoes of the South Pacific.

Day 4 (Regional Workshop, Thursday, March 27)

Parallel Sessions D: Adaptation Strategies and Evaluation

D1: Water resources, watersheds, coasts

Speaker 1: Yin Yongyuan (AS25). Identifying desirable adaptation policies to reduce coastal region vulnerability, an application of multicriteria approach to the Georgia Basin.
Speaker 2: Rodel Lasco (AS21). Climate change impacts and potential adaptation strategies in watershed areas of the Philippines.
Speaker 3: Ronald Loeve, FutureWater. Impact of climate change and formulation of adaptation strategies in the Walawe basin of Sri Lanka

Parallel Sessions E: Policy, Synthesis and AIACC Future

E1: Linking AIACC with Policy, Stakeholders
E2: Planning for AIACC Summary and Synthesis outputs
E3: Building upon AIACC – a 2nd Phase of Capacity Building