THURSDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2004

SESSION 1: LINKS BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Opening Remarks by the Chair of the Forum:
- Kiyo Akasaka, Deputy Secretary General, OECD

Keynote Speakers: 
- Rajendra Pachauri, Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- Joke Waller-Hunter, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
- Warren Evans, Sector Director, Environment Department, World Bank

SESSION 2: MAINSTREAMING CLIMATE RESPONSES IN NATIONAL/SECTORAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE

Chair: Lorents G. Lorentsen, Director, OECD Environment Directorate

Speakers:
- Shardul Agrawala, Administrator, OECD Environment Directorate
- Maarten van Aalst, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, Netherlands 

SESSION 3: MAINSTREAMING CLIMATE RESPONSES: THEMATIC PERSPECTIVES

     Theme 1: Mountain and high latitude systems

Chair: Rodolfo A. de Guzman, Director, Strategic Planning Office, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Speakers:
Nepal:  Madan Lall Shrestha, Director General, Department of Hydrology and Meteorology
Switzerland: Bruno Schaedler, Head of Water Resource Management Division, Federal Office for Water and Geology
Canada:  Leslie M. A. Whitby, Director, Renewable Resources, Natural Resources and Envrionment Branch
Peru:  Pierre Chevallier, Director of Research, L’Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)

     Theme 2: Islands/coastal systems

Chair: Kanyathu Koshy, Professor and Director, START (System for Analysis Research and Training) – Oceania Secretariat, University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Speakers:
Pacific Islands:  Sofia Bettencourt, Senior Natural Resources Economist, World Bank Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Egypt:    Mohamed El Raey, Professor and Dean, Institute of Graduate Studies and  Research, University of Alexandria
Bangladesh:   Saleemul Huq, Program Director Climate Change, International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED)
United States:   James G. Titus, Senior Policy Analyst, Climate Analysis Branch, United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)

FRIDAY, 12 NOVEMBER 2004

SESSION 3: MAINSTREAMING CLIMATE RESPONSES: THEMATIC PERSPECTIVES (CONTINUED)

     Theme 3: Development Infrastructure

Chair: Daisuke Matsunaga, Delegate of Japan to the OECD Development Assistance Committee

Speakers:
India:  P. R. Shukla, Professor, Indian Institute of Management (IIM)
France:     1) Pierre-Alain Roche (water), Professor of Hydrology, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC)
France:     2) Régis Juvanon du Vachat (health), Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and Météo-France
Mexico:  Adrian Fernández Bremauntz, General Director, Office of Research on Urban, Regional and Global Pollution, National Institute of Ecology, Mexican Ministry for the Environment

     Theme 4: Agriculture, Rural Development and Forestry

Chair: Rémy Paris, OECD Development Co-operation Directorate

Speakers:
Senegal: Moussa Seck, Director, Enda Syspro, Environmental Development Action in the Third World  
Uruguay: Walter Baethgen, Director, Latin America & Caribbean Program, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI)
New Zealand: Murray Ward, Principal Policy Advisor, New Zealand Climate Change Project
Global:  Prabhu Pingali, Director, Division of Agricultural and Development Economics, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)

SESSION 4: MAINSTREAMING CLIMATE RESPONSES IN DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE

Chair:  Richard Manning, Chair, OECD Development Assistance Committee

Speakers:
- Jean-Michel Severino, Director General, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), France
- Warren Evans, Sector Director, Environment Department, World Bank
- Emmy Simmons, Assistant Administrator, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Kazuhiko Takemoto, Deputy Director General, Global Environment  Bureau, Ministry of the Environment, Japan
- Fons Stoelinga, Director, Environment and Development Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands    

SESSION 5: CLOSING REMARKS BY THE CHAIR OF THE FORUM (KIYO AKASAKA, OECD) AND WRAP-UP DISCUSSION