Practicalities of Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation

14-16 November 2006, Cardiff

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TUESDAY 14 NOVEMBER

Fellows Lecture: Myths and Legends in the Miasma of Climate Change
Peter Bridgewater CEnv FIEEM (Ramsar)

WEDNESDAY 15 NOVEMBER

SESSION 1: OVERVIEW

Setting the Scene
Havard Prosser (Welsh Assembly Government)

Overview of the Hadley Centre
Pete Falloon (Hadley Centre, Exeter)

Overview of the Tyndall Centre
Asher Minns (Tyndall Centre)

SESSION 2: AGRICULTURE AND LANDUSE

Impacts of Climate Change: Solutions for Agriculture
Jo Hughes (National Farmers’ Union)

The Impact of Climate Change on UK Agriculture and its Implications for Land Utilization and Agri-Environmental Management
Alan Hopkins CEnv MIEEM (Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research)

THURSDAY 16 NOVEMBER

SESSION 3: FLORA AND FORESTRY

Direct Effects of Predicted Global Climate Change with the Principal Objective of Providing Guidance on Climate Change Adaptation
Mark Broadmeadow (Forestry Commission)

Monitoring and Evaluating Auto Ecological Changes in Grassland Communities due to Climate Change, Using Remote Sensing Techniques
Katie Medcalf CEnv MIEEM & Johanna Breyer (Environment Systems)

Climate change impacts on biodiversity and their implications for nature conservation
Clive Walmsley (Countryside Council for Wales)

SESSION 4: COUNTRYSIDE AGENCIES DEBATE

Countryside Agencies Debate (Agency Priorities for Forthcoming Years, Questions/Discussion)
- Dave Thompson (Natural England)
- Clive Walmsley (Countryside Council for Wales)
- Sian Priest (DEFRA)
- Alan Netherwood (Environment Agency)
- Peter Singleton (Scottish Environment Protection Agency)
- Mary Christie MIEEM (Scottish Natural Heritage)
- Beatrice Kelly (Heritage Council, Ireland)

Ministerial address
Tasmin Dunwoody (Deputy Minister Environment Planning and Countryside, Welsh Assembly Government)

SESSION 5: AQUATIC ISSUES

Long Term Change in Relation to Climate Using Rocky Shore Indicators
Professor Stephen Hawkins (Marine Biological Association, MarClim, Plymouth)

Assessing the Long Term Climatic Effects on Upland Welsh Rivers: Consequences for Biodiversity and Conservation
Professor Stephen Ormerod FIEEM and Isabelle Durance (Cardiff University)

Climate change and the National Trust: Responding to Rise in Sea Levels and Coastal Flooding
Rob Jarman (National Trust)

SESSION 6: FAUNA

The Effect of Climate Change on Birds
Mark Rehfisch (British Trust for Ornithology)

Butterfly Responses to Climate Change
Professor Jeremy Thomas (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology)

Responses in Fish to Climate Change
Mike Heath (Fisheries Research Service)