Informal Expert Meeting on Development and Climate Change: Linkages with Natural Resources Management, Paris, 13-14 March 2002

This informal expert meeting, held 13-14 March 2002 in Paris, combined experts from both the climate policy (largely adaptation experts) and the development policy communities. Participants from developing and developed countries, and from relevant inter-governmental organisations, covered a range of questions, including the value-added of OECD contributions on development and climate; adaptation financing issues; scope, structure and criteria for possible case studies.

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Agenda

Day 1: Literature Review and Analytical Framework

Co-Chairs:
- Tom Jones, Environment Directorate, OECD
- Remi Paris, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD

1. Introduction and Meeting Objectives
Jan Corfee-Morlot, Environment Directorate, OECD (oral Presentation)

2. Development and Climate Change Policy Connections: A Literature Review
Saleemul Huq, IIED, UK (Document and Presentation)

3. Framework for Analysis
Mohan Munasinghe, MIND, Sri Lanka (Document and Presentation)

4. National and Thematic Perspectives

• Climate change, adaptive capacity and sustainable development
  Richard Klein, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany (oral Presentation)
• Food Security, development and climate change
  Terry Cannon, Livelihoods and Institutions Group, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, UK (oral Presentation)
• Applying Principles of Collaborative Management of Coastal Resources to Adaptation Planning and Implementation in Small Island States
  John Virdin, World Resources Institute, US (oral Presentation)
• Summary of Impacts of Climate Change and Adaptation in Water, Agriculture, and Forestry Sectors in Indonesia
  Agus Sari, Pelangi, Indonesia (oral Presentation)

5. Reactions and Wrap-up
- Mohan Munasinghe, MIND, Sri Lanka
- Saleemul Huq, IIED, UK

Day 2: Case Study Design Recommendations

Co-Chair:
- Mohan Munasinghe, MIND, Sri Lanka

1. Roundtable Discussion

2. Case Study Design: Overview
Georg Caspary, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD (oral Presentation)

3. Case Study Design: Themes and Structure

Discussion in three breakout groups:

1. Food security
2. Coastal zone management and
3. Framing economic and other quantitative assessment.

4. Breakout Group Recommendations (Plenary)

5. Wrap-up and Conclusions

Co-Chairs:
- Tom Jones, Environment Directorate, OECD
- Remi Paris, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD