Adaptation, Meetings and Documents
Working Groups
MEETINGS for the California Climate Adaptation Strategy
Note: Meeting for working groups are located in their individual sections (when they've been set up). Please click links in column to the left.
November 10, 2008 - Public Health Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Workgroup
Time: 9 a.m. to Noon
Location: Resources Building
1416 9th Street, Room 1206
Sacramento, CA 95814
Documents for Meeting
- Meeting Announcement (MS Word file, 16 kb)
- Meeting Agenda (MS Word file 32 kb)
- Public Health Climate Change Adaptation Strategy DRAFT OUTLINE -- For Public Comment. (MS Word file, 68 kb)
- Presentation: Public Health Effects of Climate Change, Paul English,Ph.D. MPH, and Helene Margolis, Ph.D., California Department of Public Health. (PDF file, 1.6 Megabytes)
- Presentation: Public Health Strategies, Deborah Orrill, Climate Change Advisor, California Resources Agency. (PDF file, 1.4 Megabytes)
October 10, 2008 - Climate Adaptation Strategy (CAS) Update Public Meeting
- Location
Date: Friday, October 10, 2008
Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location: Resources Agency, Ground Floor Auditorium, Sacramento
Directions: www.climatechange.ca.gov/adaptation/resource_agency_directions.html
Conference Call: 916-657-4113
- Documents for the Meeting
- Meeting Notice [Word file]
- Agenda
- Overview of the CAS (15 minutes)
- Introduction of the CAS Vision and Principles [Word file] (10 minutes)
- CAS Working Group Process (5 minutes)
- Questions and Answers (90 minutes)
September 11, 2008 - Workshop on Following Sectors: Biodiversity, Water, Forestry
Documents for Meeting
- Agenda (MS Word file, 44 kb)
- Summary of Meeting (MS Word file 40 kb)
- Strategies (Water, Biodiversity/Habitat, Forestry) (MS Word file, 72 kb)
- Participant Comments (MS Word file 164 kb)
- Workshop Ground Rules (MS Word file 28 kb)
- Comment Form (MS Word file 56 kb)
- List of Participants (forthcoming)
- Background Materials
- Fact Sheet (MS Word file 1.2 megabytes)
- Climate Terminology (MS Word file 40 kb)
September 8-10, 2008 - Fifth Annual Climate Change Research Conference
- Location
Sacramento Convention Center
Sacramento, California
Sponsored by the California Energy Commission & California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA)
September 10, 2008
Time: 2:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Adaptation Session: Models for Improving Climate Resiliency
Chair: Darren Bouton, Cabinet Secretary, Governor Schwarzenegger's Office
Speakers:
Steve Schneider, Professor, Stanford University
Key Vulnerabilities and Risks of Climate Change
Lester Snow, Director, CA Department of Water Resources
California Water Issues and Climate Change (no presentation available)
Louise Bedsworth, Research Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California
Climate Change: Adaptation Challenges and Prospects for California
Gary Cook, Deputy Director, ICLEI U.S.A.
Adaptation Planning for Local Governments
Ian Noble, Climate Change Advisor, The World Bank
Climate Change and Investment Strategies
Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio, Senior Research Associate, Rockefeller Foundation
The Climate Change Resilience Initiative
July 31, 2008
- Location
California Resources Agency
Climate Adaptation Strategy for California
July 31, 2008, 2 - 4 p.m.
Resources Building, Conference Room 1131, 11th Floor - Agenda (PDF file, 76 kb)
- Presentations
- Speaker Biographies (PDF file)
- Adapting for Climate Change, California Water Resources Management, presentation by Mark Cowin, Deputy Director for Regional Water Planning & Management, Department of Water Resources. (PDF file, 564 kb)
- Climate Change Public Health Impacts: Strategies for Adaptation, presentation by Helene Margolis, Ph.D., M.A., Epidemiologist and Research Specialist, Environmental Health Investigations Branch, Department of Public Health. (PDF file, 1.2 MB)
- California State Parks Adapting to Climate Change, presentation by Rick Rayburn, Chief of the Natural Resources Division, California State Parks. (PDF file, 3.2 MB