Development and Adaptation Days

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Climate change is considered one of the most serious threats to sustainable development. Impacts are expected to adversely affect economic activity, food security, natural resources, social and physical infrastructure, health and our environment. Mitigation of these effects remains critical. Likewise, adaptation and responding effectively and efficiently to climate change is essential as the world begins to experience climate impacts on a more frequent basis. The people who are most vulnerable to these challenges live in developing countries.

Recognizing this, the international climate and development communities came together to discuss the links between climate change, development and poverty at the eighth annual Conference of the Parties (COP-8) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2002. This one-day event, Adaptation Day, has since continued and expanded to become Development and Climate Days, an anticipated part of each annual Conference of the Parties. It is hosted by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), with the support and partnership of IISD and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).

Development and Climate Days provides a forum for discussion of the critical implications of climate change for developing countries. Participants representing governments, international organizations, academia, research institutes, business and non-governmental organizations typically meet over two days to share their knowledge on adaptation, latest developments and information on climate change, and development linkages, and to facilitate collaboration between the climate change and development communities.

Further information about Development and Climate Days events can be found on the website of the International Institute for Environment and Development.