Forum on Taiwan and Climate Change

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Policy Forum on Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Resilience: Taiwan Reflections
Organizers: IHDP, IHDP National Committee-Taipei
Center for Sustainability Science, Academia Sinica
Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica

Time: May 19 (Sunday), 2013

Venue: Conference Room 1, Academic Activity Center, Academia Sinica

Names are being accepted until May 10 (limited to 80), email susana0816@gate.sinica.edu.tw
For program list, click on READ MORE below:
Program
09:00-09:10 Welcome
Chao-Han Liu (Chair, Center for Sustainability Science, Academia Sinica)
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao (Chair, IHDP National Committee-Taipei)
09:10-10:00 Keynote Speech
Partha Dasgupta (Chair, IHDP Scientific Committee; Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus
of Economics, Faculty of Economics,University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
10:00-10:20 Morning Coffee Break
10:20-12:20 Presentation of CEPD (Council on Economic Planning and Development, Executive
Yuan, Taiwan) Initiated Projects
Chair Jiunn-Rong Yeh (Director and Professor, Policy and Law Center for
Environmental Sustainability, College of Law, National Taiwan University;
former Secretary General of National Sustainable Development Council,
Executive Yuan, Taiwan)
Presenter Erica Kuo (Director of Urban and Housing Development, CEPD)
“The Formulation of National Climate Change Adaptation Policy
Guideline and Local Adaptation Plan in Taiwan”
Panelists Shu-Li Huang (Vice President, National Taipei University; Director, Center
for Global Change and Sustainability Science, National Taipei University)
Dai-Gee Shaw (President, East Asian Association of Environmental and
Resource Economics, EAAERE;Research Fellow, Institute of Economics,
Academia Sinica )
Jough-Tai Wang (Secretary General, Ministry of Education, Taiwan;
Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Central
University)
Discussants Heinz Gutscher(President of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and
Social Sciences, SAHS/SAGW, Switzerland)
Kevin Noone (Director, Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth
System Sciences, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden)12:20-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Presentation of NSC (National Science Council, Executive Yuan, Taiwan) Initiated
Projects
Chair Jough-Tai Wang (Secretary General, Ministry of Education, Taiwan and
Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Central
University)
Presenters Lee-Yaw Lin (Deputy Executive Secretary,National Science and
Technology Center for Disaster Reduction and the PI of TCCIP project)
“An User-Based Climate Change Service Project: Taiwan Climate Change
Projection and Information Platform Project (TCCIP)”
Ching-Pin Tung (Professor and Adviser, Sustainable Development
Laboratory, Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering,
National Taiwan University)
“Cross Sectoral Vulnerability Assessment and Resilience Capacity
Building”
Discussants Hartwig Kremer (Executive Officer of LOICZ, Germany)
Ilan Chabay (Professor and Senior Fellow, Institute of Advanced
Sustainability Studies, University of Potsdam, Germany)
15:30-15:50 Afternoon Tea Break
15:50-17:00 Overall Discussion and Suggestions for Taiwan
Chair Chao-Han Liu (Chair, Center for Sustainability Science, Academia Sinica)
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao (Chair, IHDP National Committee-Taipei)
18:00 Farewell Dinner (invited only)
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