Expert meeting on climate change and disaster risk management, for the high level conference on world food security and the challenges of climate change and bioenergy
Climate change, bioenergy and food security: Challenges for the new Millennium
Securing world food security in light of the impact of climate change may be one of the biggest challenges we face in this century.
The recent thirty-fourth session of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Conference called for a series of expert meetings on climate change and bioenergy, to be held between January and March 2008 and two stakeholder consultations aimed at civil society organizations and the private sector, to be held in February and March 2008.
The expert meetings and stakeholder consultations will be followed by a High-Level Conference on World Food Security and the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy to take place 3-5 June 2008. The High-Level Conference will be informed by work undertaken and findings which emerge from the expert meetings and stakeholder consultations.
There will be an expert group consultation on:
- Climate change and disaster risk management: 28-29 February 2008
This expert meeting will consider cross-sectoral linkages between likely climate change impacts and disasters’ nature and frequency, as well as opportunities for enhanced risk reduction and management by affected vulnerable groups, with particular focus on the implications for agriculture (crop and animal), forestry, fisheries and their contribution to food security. It will examine the current state of knowledge and best practices in disaster management and risk reduction in the context of climate change. It will propose new directions in disaster risk reduction and management and assess the need for more specific international financing mechanisms to support capacity-building related to food security within the framework of disaster risk reduction, preparedness and adaptation to climate change in high-risk and low-capacity countries.
The timetable for other thematic consultations - such as climate change, water, and food security - and civil society and private sector consultations, are available on the website.