Over 80 people attended the CCF Summer Symposium, which was held on Monday 21st June, to hear a range of interesting speakers reflect and challenge current thinking on climate change adaptation in the International Year of Biodiversity. The programme is available here. Many of the presentations are available in pdf form here and a summary of the discussions in the ’speed date’ session is available here.
Dr Bert Leigh, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
WHERE: Seminar Room, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge
WHEN: Thursday, May 13, 12 noon
Giovanni Boglino, Frontier Forests
WHERE: UNEP-WCMC, 219 Huntingdon Road, CB3 0DL
WHEN: Wednesday, May 12th , 13.00
Dr Bert Leigh, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
WHERE: Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology
WHEN: Tuesday 11th May 2010, 17:00
SPEAKER: Andy Purvis (Imperial College London)
WHEN: Friday 23 April 2010: 13:00
WHERE: UNEP-WCMC
March 10th (Wednesday), 7pm for 7.15pm
Panel members include: William Kendall (Green and Black’s); Professor Bill Adams (Department of Geography); Pamela Abbott (Cambridge Conservation Forum); Dr Hazell Thompson (BirdLife International); Dr Ruth Swetnam (Department of Zoology)
Chair: Tim Radford (The Guardian)
Followed by a drinks reception with displays of their work by conservationists from across the Cambridge Conservation Community, until 10pm
Judge Business School, Trumpington Street
RSVP and any questions in advance for the panel to: Sophie Smith sophie.smith [[ at ]] admin.ac [[ dot ]] uk
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The next council meeting will be on September 23rd at 1 PM , at UNEP-WCMC. Minutes from previous meetings are below: