date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:19:27 +0000 from: Maria Noguer subject: QUEST-GSI Stakeholders meeting - 20 November to: Nigel Arnell , "'Tim Wheeler'" , r.j.nicholls@soton.ac.uk, t.p.dawson@soton.ac.uk, t.osborn@uea.ac.uk, pete.smith@abdn.ac.uk, e.d.g.fraser@leeds.ac.uk, r.taylor@geog.ucl.ac.uk, Sari.Kovats@lshtm.ac.uk, rjh@ceh.ac.uk, graham.pilling@cefas.co.uk, richard.betts@metoffice.gov.uk, Maria Noguer , Kathy Maskell , jo.house@bris.ac.uk, sarah.cornell@bristol.ac.uk, "Gottschalk, Pia" , "Brown S." Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by ueamailgate01.uea.ac.uk id mA6EJS6V022390 Dear QUEST-GSI partners, Many thanks for your responses regarding your availability for the stakeholder meeting. Attached the list of responses so far from stakeholders and partners. *Proposed format of the stakeholders meeting:* The invitation that I sent to the stakeholders is at the end of this email. In there I wrote that they would get an introduction to the project from Nigel and then some preliminary results from partners. After that we would open it to a discussion where we would expect feedback from the stakeholders on appropriate outputs and means of communicating results to them. It would be great if we could have 5 minutes presentations from each partner/subject showing your preliminary results. Including only those that have replied so far we would have something like this: Nigel - overview of project and global water resources Southampton - flooding Reading (Nigel or Gillian) - crops UCL - Catchment-scale impacts Aberdeen - Soil carbon fluxes LSHTM - Human health Let me know your thoughts. Maria ------------------------------------------- *Assessing the impacts of climate change and informing climate policy – mitigation and adaptation * On Thursday 20 November 2008 > From 2.00 – 4.00 at Church House Conference Centre, Dean’s Yard, Westminster, London How much do we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid “dangerous” impacts? To answer this question we need quantitative information about climate change impacts. We would like to invite you to discuss the first results from the QUEST – Global Scale Impacts project. We have, for the first time, quantified the impacts of climate change in a consistent way across the entire globe and across various sectors such as water resources, flooding, crops and ecosystems using a variety of metrics. Your input as a user of this information will shape the final outcome of our projects. We are very keen to learn more about your requirements and to incorporate those in our final results. So please come and join us for an afternoon of climate impacts, policy solutions and adaptations options. Professor Nigel Arnell, QUEST-GSI co-ordinator, will give a project overview and other members of the project will present preliminary results addressing the following questions: * What are the global-scale impacts for different levels of global temperature change? * How are the impacts in different sectors interrelated? * Where are the “hot spots”? * How much will climate change mitigation and adaptation policies reduce “damages”? What you will get out of this session: * Information about the impacts of climate change to inform policy setting of targets for greenhouse gas emission reduction. * Better quantification of impacts to inform national and global adaptation and planning strategies. Please let me know if you will be joining us on the 20th of November. If you cannot join us on the day, please extend this invitation to a member of your team. Your participation would be greatly appreciated. I look forward to hearing from you, Maria Noguer PS: QUEST-GSI is one the projects under QUEST, a multidisciplinary programme of the Natural Environment Research Council aiming to answer questions on the global environment. -- Dr Maria Noguer, Climate Research and Business Manager Walker Institute (http://www.walker-institute.ac.uk/) Tel: +44 (0)118 3787380 Fax: +44 (0)118 3788316 Email: m.noguer@reading.ac.uk Walker Institute, University of Reading Agriculture Building, Earley Gate Reading RG6 6AR, United Kingdom -- Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\Quest-GSI Stakeholder meeting invitees(DOC)1.doc"