Category: Climate Change and Environment

Upcoming Panel Discussion: Hunger in the Age of Climate Change (Washington, DC)

by ihsection, posted in Climate Change and Environment, Events and Webinars, Section Announcements

When: Wednesday, May 14, 2014, 1-3pm (Lunch available starting at 12:30pm)
Where: 425 3rd St. SW, Suite 1200, Washington DC 20024

 Today the White House will announce the release of the Third National Climate Assessment.  This report is already garnering national and international press; climate change is one of the president’s primary areas of focus.  What does the report say about climate change in the United States, and what do these findings mean for hungry and poor people in the United States and globally? Join with members of the faith, environmental, and anti-hunger communities to discuss how we can work together to provide adequate nutrition even as the climate is changing in ways that require new methods of growing, storing, and transporting food.

Invited panelists include:

  • Katharine Hayhoe, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People and author of A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions
  • William Hohenstein, USDA Climate Change Program Office
  • Lewis Ziska, USDA Agricultural Research Service
  • Jan Ahlen, National Farmers Union
  • Sam Myers, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Margaret Wilder, University of Arizona

Please circulate this invitation among your networks, and RSVP by May 9 at www.bread.org/climate.

Questions? Contact Stacy Cloyd at scloyd@bread.org

FYI: Upcoming USAID Webinar on New Climate Change Document

by ihsection, posted in Climate Change and Environment, Events and Webinars

The USAID Office of Global Climate Change is introducing a new climate resilient development framework to the Adaptation Community.

On April 8, 2014, at 4 p.m. EST, Kit Batten, USAID/GCC Coordinator, and the adaptation team at USAID will lead a special presentation covering in detail a new publication on climate adaptation for developing countries: Climate-Resilient Development: A Framework for Understanding and Addressing Climate Change. Working with decision makers in governments and across sectors, the framework has been applied in Barbados, Jamaica, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, St. Lucia, Tanzania, West Africa, and other countries that are preparing communities for a climate resilient future. The framework describes USAID’s “development-first” approach, which aims to achieve development goals despite climate change. This framework is an update of the approach presented in 2007 in USAID’s Adapting to Climate Variability and Change: A Guidance Manual for Development Planning.

The event will take place on Tuesday, April 8, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. EST.

In-person: Engility, 1211 Connecticut Avenue NW, 8th floor conference room, Washington, DC 20036

Online webinar: http://irgltd.adobeconnect.com/climate/
Enter page as a Guest and type in your first and last name. Please include the name of your organization in parentheses.

Call-in number:
United States: 1-877-685-7326   Conference code: 8170974215
International: 1-678-735-7838    Conference code: 8170974215

Please send your RSVP by April 6th and questions about the presentation to Joyce-Lynn.Njinga@engilitycorp.com.