cc: "Mike Hulme (E-mail)" , "Marcel Berk (E-mail)" , "Joyeeta Gupta" date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:46:21 +0100 from: "Edan Rotenberg" subject: Tyndall's role in the HOT project to: "Alex Haxeltine (E-mail)" Dear Alex, After meeting with Marcel Berk and Joyeeta Gupta I've been asked to get in touch with you to start fleshing out what Tyndall's role in the HOT project will look like. This involves dealing with two types of scientific support - the background paper which will serve as input to the meetings, and scientific support at the meetings themselves. Meetings: What do you think is the best way to provide scientific support at the meetings? We hope that you will be in touch with all of the regional partners in relation to their science requirements. Background Paper: Marcel thought it would be wise if you prepared a draft of the scientific input in advance, and simply made modifications as you saw fit when the stakeholder surveys came back. Also, please note that we added another line to the scientific input description in the research protocol: asking Tyndall to include some general background on vulnerability and adaptive capacity in the background data. This is because we feel that the discussions, especially in the south, are going to involve adaptation and a discussion of the costs. Since vulnerability depends on both the severity of climate change impacts and the adaptive capacity of those affected some understanding of the scientific discussions on adaptive capacity and vulnerability will probably be helpful in the regional meetings. Additionally, we are aware that the European Climate Forum is also planning a one day conference on defining dangerous climate change to be based on a position paper being prepared by Bill Hare of Greenpeace. Do you think that his paper could be a good piece from which to start building the scientific input? Even if not it may be useful in helping to move along the dialogue at regional meetings (an independent source of ideas that no one is attached to). Can we get a copy of that paper when it is finished? Joyeeta would like to schedule a teleconference with you for sometime next week - is the 25^th good? I hope to hear back from you shortly, and wish you well. On a personal note it looks like I won't be applying to UEA after all - my girlfriend and I talked it over and decided that we aren't going to move to the UK for 2-5 years b/c we would start settling in and making contacts very far from home. Nonetheless, thanks for taking the time to talk with me about UEA, and I look forward to meeting you at some point (thought probably not this time around - I leave the IVM on March 10^th). Best wishes, Edan Rotenberg ____________________________________________ Edan Rotenberg, Guest Researcher Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1087 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel: +31-20-4449562 Fax: +31-20-4449553 E-mail: edan.rotenberg@ivm.vu.nl [1]http://www.vu.nl/IVM/research/ihdp-it/ ____________________________________________