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The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission's science and knowledge service which employs scientists to carry out research in order to provide independent scientific advice and support to EU policy.
BACKGROUND
The Europen Commission's JRC-IES and the Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO C2) organise a workshop “Indicators and data for Climate resilient Development: from data to information and knowledge to policy actions."
The final objective of this workshop is the identification of a core set of indicators and data sets with a global coverage for the key determinants of climate resilient development (natural hazards related to climate change, vulnerability, adaptive capacity, mitigation, resilience and development) to guide policy actions in this area.
It will offer an opportunity for knowledge sharing between experts, scientists and practitioners, thereby establishing an open forum on climate resilient development which will be supported by a web knowledge platform.
FINAL AGENDA - 25th March 2015
9:30 - 10:45 I. Indicators and selection criteria
1) Introduction of the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) programme - E. Coyette, DG DEVCO C2
2) Climate resilient development - A. Miola, EU JRC
3) 'Analysis of which metrics are fit-for-purpose'- Ian Noble
4) A physical vulnerability index to climate change as a criterion for allocation of adaptation resources - P. Guillaumont - FERDI
11:00 - 12:30 II. Data sets on climate-related and weather-driven hazards
5) Drought Hazard and Databases - J. Vogt, EU JRC
6) Space or Sustainable Development - P. P. Mathieu, European Satellite Agency
7) JPI Climate strategy towards Open Climate Knowledge - A. Sancho-Reinoso, BOKU University
13:45- 15:30 Experience from the practitioners
8) Climate resilient development_safeguarding or mainstreaming - J. Carstensen - UK DFID
9) M&E indicators for Adaptation projects - J. Olivier, GIZ, GmbH
10) CA resilience project cycle_EIB - S. Lindenberg, EIB
15:45 Round table
26th March, 2015 from 9:30 to 12:00
We will continue the discussion by analysing fit-for-purpose indicators. No specific agenda has been set, but we will continue the discussion on ex-ante and ex-post indicators for climate resilient development.