Documents

• 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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