- 2nd Circular - pdf 58KB
- Final Programme - pdf 32KB
- DAC List of ODA Recipients - pdf 20KB
- Book of Abstracts, Rev. 1 - pdf 470KB
Presentations*
Plenary
- High mountain glaciers and climate change - a global challenge (Heidi Sørensen, Norway)
- High Mountain glaciers and challenges caused by climate change (Angela Cropper, Deputy Executive Director, UNEP)
- Conference Programme (Nalan Koç, Norway)
Topic 1: Climate change in the high regions on the world: Do climate models adequately describe glacier systems? Similarities and differences between high-altitude and high-latitude glaciers.
- Climate change in high mountain regions of the world (Georg Kaser, Keynote, topic 1, Austria)
- Impact of retreating glaciers in glacial run-off: a global assessment of high mountain regions (Gino Casassa, Chile)
- The cliimate change impact on the waterflow regimes in high mountains and the role of the cryosphere: Andes, Himalayas and Pamir (Pierre Chevallier, France)
- Glacier runoff and its change in China (Baishen Ye, China)
- Glacier, glacial lake and glacial lake outburst flood in the Himalayas (Pradep Mool, Nepal)
- Impacts of climate change on high-mountain glaciers in the Alps: Observations and results from modelling studies (Frank Paul, Switzerland)
- High-mountain glaciers as climate archives (margit Schwikowski, Switzerland)
- Increased runoff from melt from the Greenland ice sheet: A response to global warming (Koni Steffen, USA)
Topic 2: Climate change of high-altitude glaciers and downstream effects.
- Glacial hazards and downstream effects of climate change on high mountain glaciers (John Reynolds-Keynote, topic 2)
- The role, achievements and prospects of remote sensing for observing high-mountain glaciers and related hazards (Andy Kääb, Norway)
- Impact of deglaciation in the Bhutanese Himalayas (Karma Chophel, Bhutan)
- GLOF hazards in Bhutan and the management of glacial lakes in high-mountain environments (John Reynolds, UK)
- Climate change and developm,ent challenges in a diwnstream state. The case of Bangladesh (Haakon Lein, Norway)
- Impacts of climate change on water resources in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya (Mats Eriksson, Nepal)
- The glaciers of Central Asia: Tienshan and Pamir - trends and future (Ysmaiyl Dairov, Kyrgyzstan)
- High Noon: Adaptation to changing water resources availaibity in northern India in respect to Himalayan glacier retreat and changing monsoon pattern (Eddy Moors, the Netherlands)
Topic 3: Impacts and adaptation to climate change.
- Food security and high mountain glaciers (Christian Nellemann, Keynote, topic3)
- Climate resilience and adaptation in the Himalya region (P.G. Dhar Chakrabarti, India)
- Impact of climate change in the Himalaya-Hindukush mountains on water resources and overall economy of Pakistan (Amir Muhammed, Pakistan)
- Glacier resources of Pakistan - their response to climate change and associated hazards (Rakhshan Roohi, Pakistan)
- Adaptation to climate change on foot security and livelihoods: Can humans act in time? (Stella Maris Navone, Argentina)
Break-out sessions
- Questions for break-out sessions
- Topic 1 response (G. Kaser, Chair)
- Topic 2 response (J. Reynolds, Chair)
- Topic 3 response (P.G. Dhar Chakrabarti, Convenor, Amir Muhammed, Rapporteur)
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