n°4: Climate change

On 13 February, CTA and other partners organised the fourth ‘Brussels Development Briefing’ - part of a series of discussion meetings on ACP-EU development issues. This briefing focused on The climate challenge for ACP agriculture.

Objectives and Programme of the Briefing
- Isolina Boto, CTA [presentation]

Introductory remarks

- Ojo Olusola, ACP Secretariat
- Lluis Riera Figueras, DG Development, European Commission

Panel 1: From Rio to Bali: emerging key issues for ACP countries
- Mark Rosegrant, IFPRI [executive summary - presentation]
- Mr. Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, ICTSD [executive summary - presentation]
- Isabelle Niang, ENDA [presentation]

Discussant: Hon Josep Borrell Fontelles, Chair of the Committee on Development, European Parliament and former President of the European Parliament [video interview]

Panel 2: Impact of climate change on rural development
- Benito Müller, Oxford Climate Policy/Oxford Institute for Energy Studies [paper - presentation]
- Leo Peskett, ODI [executive summary - presentation]
- Rachel Berger, Practical Action [executive summary - presentation]

Discussant: Hon Bernadette Lahai, Member of Parliament in Sierra Leone and Member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, chair of African parliamentarians Network on Climate Change

Conclusions
- Ishmael Sunga, SACAU
- Chris Addison, Euforic
- Oumy Ndiaye, CTA

More:

Video material

Video interviews

Background note

Reader (pdf)

Key documents and organisations

Profiles of panelists and discussants

List of participants

Report of the meeting (pdf)

For more information please contact Romano Purro (rp@euforic.org)

One Response to “n°4: Climate change”

  1. LYDIA MUEIRWE Says:

    Thank you for the work you are doing.

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