Water Management, Health and Climate Adaptation in Barbados
Follow the LIVE STREAMING on Wednesday May 9th
Overview
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8:30 听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Introductions and Welcome
Roger-Mark De Souza, Director, Population, Environmental Change and Security Program, Wilson Center
Carmen Lacambra, Director of Research, Grupo Laera, and Wilson Center program consultant
8: 40听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Opening Remarks
Wayne Hunte, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research, UWI Cave Hill
9:00 听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Water Management and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Caribbean
Adrian Cashman, Senior Lecturer - Water Resources Management CERMES, UWI Cave Hill
听听听听听听听听听听听 Basil Fernandez, Managing Director Water Resources Authority, Jamaica
Q&A: Moderated by Carmen Lacambra
10:45-11:15 听听听听听听听 Coffee Break
11:15 鈥 13:00 听听听听 Health and Climate Change Adaptation
听听听 Sally Edwards, Regional Advisor, Environmental Epidemiology, Pan American Health Organization, Barbados
Winfred Greaves, Project Manager, Climate Change Adaptation to Protect Human Health in Barbados, supported by the Pan American Health Organization and the Global Environmental Facility
In茅s Navarro Gonz谩lez, Environmental Engineer Coordinator, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Q&A: Moderated by Carmen Lacambra
13:00 - 14:00听 听听听听 Lunch
14:15 - 15:45 听听听听听 Adapta Sert茫o, A successful climate adaptation initiative from Brazil
Daniele Cesano, Technology Director Adapta Sert茫o Social Technologies for Climate Change Adaptation, Pintadas, Bahia, Brazil
Q&A: Moderated by Carmen Lacambra
15:45 鈥 16:25听听听听听 Coffee Break
16:30 鈥 18:30 听听听听 Public Session
16:30 鈥 16:45听听听听听 Introductory remarks by:
听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Andrew Downes, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Planning and Development, UWI Cave Hill
听听听听听 Roger-Mark De Souza, Director, Population, Environmental Change and Security Program, Wilson Center
16:45 鈥 17:10听听听听听 Opening Remarks:
听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Christopher Sandrolini, Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy to Barbados
听听听听听听听 听 听 听 The Hon. David Estwick, Minister of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Water Resource Management
17:10 鈥 18:30听听听听听 Panel discussion with:
Adrian Cashman, Senior Lecturer - Water Resources Management CERMES, UWI Cave Hill
Daniele Cesano, Technology Director Adapta Sert茫o Social Technologies for Climate Change Adaptation, Pintadas, Bahia, Brazil
Sally Edwards, Regional Advisor, Environmental Epidemiology, Pan American Health Organization, Barbados
Moderator:
Roger-Mark De Souza, Director, Population, Environmental Change and Security Program, Wilson Center
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Brazil Institute
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Environmental Change and Security Program
The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) explores the connections between environmental change, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy. Read more
Latin America Program
澳门六合彩鈥檚 prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on 澳门六合彩鈥檚 strength as the nation鈥檚 key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
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