date: Wed Jan 24 13:45:43 2001 from: Mike Hulme subject: Re: Michael See to: Bo Lim Bo, I know little really about See - he started corresponding with me once our new Centre was set up and then came to visit me for an hour. He has this idea to set up a consortium to help operate the putative Climate Adaptation Fund, and seems to be lobbying various people - including UNEP - to try and get himself there. I have remained rather non-committal about the role of Tyndall Centre, without detaching myself entirely. I realise lots of other people are getting ideas too about the CAF. We have a strong Tyndall programme on adaptation which Neil Adger from UEA is heading. About the Wigley et al., I am at as much of a loss as you are. It seems Tom has seriously lost interest in the activity - now nearly a year old. I will try him again - saying how much your network are keen on the Manual - but I reckon it will never see the light of day. I am up to my eyes in management now and am much less of a free agent than I was a year ago. By the way, one activity we (Tyndall Centre) are doing is a desk study for the UK Development Ministry on effects of climate change on British Overseas Dependent Territories. If you have a few minutes - or maybe Rebecca could do this - could you read the attached project summary (1page) and set of questions (1page) and point me towards any relevant work/studies (e.g. for the Caribbean) that your network have done? Chris Sear is the guy co-ordinating this for us. Many thanks, Mike At 16:08 23/01/01 -0500, you wrote: Dear Mike How did it go in Shanghai? The WGI report could not have come at a more opportune time. Let's see if it motivate governments to rally around the table again. I am writing to you about Michael See -- who is he? Should I meet with him? One last thing, what shall we do about Wigely et al.? Bo -- Bo Lim, Ph.D Chief Technical Advisor National Communications Support Programme UNDP-GEF Room 1607 304 East 45th St NY, NY 10017 USA Tel: 1-212-906 5730 Fax: 1-212-906 6568 Email: bo.lim@undp.org