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International Conference Programme

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Sessions
1 General Session: The Issue & The Challenge
2 Climate Change: The Scientific Basis & Model Predictions
3 Impacts, (Health, Agriculture, Migration, Tourism, Economy, …)
4 Challenges (Energy systems, Water, Built Environment, city resilience)
5 Mitigation & Adaptation Strategies
6 Policy Challenges & Policy Options
7 Concluding Session

 

DAY 1 (18 ΜΑΥ 2018) | SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Friday 18th May 2018
07:45-08:45 | REGISTRATION & WELCOME COFFEE
 

08:45 – 09:35 | SESSION #1 – “The Issue & The Challenge” – Chairperson: Andreas PITTAS

Costas PAPANICOLAS (CyI) – Welcoming address
Laurent FABIUS (Former Prime Minister, France) – “Action against climate change: where do we stand?“
Nikos ANASTASIADES (President of the Republic of Cyprus)

 
09:35-10:00 COFFEE BREAK   “Pentadaktylos” Restaurant
 

10:00 – 11:40 | SESSION #2 – “The Scientific basis” – Chairperson: Euripides STEPHANOU

Petteri TAALAS (WMO) – “The climate in 2017: focus on the Mediterranean and the Middle East”
Abdallah MOKSSIT (IPCC) – “Three decades of climate change science : Focus on the Mediterranean Region”
Vladimir RYABININ (UNESCO-IOC) – “Oceanographic dimension of the climate change in the Mediterranean”
Filippo GIORGI (ICTP) – “A review of climate change projections for the Mediterranean regions”
Nikos MIHALOPOULOS (NOA) – “Mediterranean and Middle East air pollution in a changing climate”

11:40 – 12:40 | Panel Discussion #A: “The Scientific basis”

Moderator/Convener : Michel JARRAUD (Former WMO)
Participants: P. CIAIS, M. KULMALA, P. TAALAS, A. MOKSSIT, V. RYABININ, N. MIHALOPOULOS, E. STEPHANOU, F. GIORGI

 
12:40-13:40 LUNCH   “Pentadaktylos” Restaurant
 

13:40 – 15:20 | SESSION #3 – “Impacts” – Chairperson: Silas MICHAELIDES (Former DoM, CyI)

Hamed BAKIR (WHO) – “Health and climate change: health effects of climate change and a framework for action to protect health from climate change”
George CHRISTOPHIDES (ICL, CyI) – “Health impacts: the spread of vector-borne diseases”
Jos LELIEVELD (MPIC, CyI), “Climate change, weather extremes and Impacts”
Geoffrey LIPMAN (SUNx) – “Tourism, A vector and a victim of climate change”
Kerstin NEUMANN (IPK) – “Agriculture and Animal Husbandry in a Changing Climate”

 
15:20-15:40 COFFEE BREAK   “Pentadaktylos” Restaurant

15:40-17:20 | SESSION #4 – “Challenges” – Chairperson: Refâat CHAABOUNI

Thorsten KIEFER (Future Earth) – “Aiming for multiple goals with one shot – the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals”
Arnault GRAVES (UfM) – “The Union for the Mediterranean main Climate Actions”
Loucas CHRISTOPHOROU (Academy Athens) – “Emerging world-wide energy trends and long-range energy planning”
Fadi COMAIR (Ministry Energy & Water, Lebanon) – “Hydro-diplomacy and the Nexus adaptation climate Change in the MENA Region”
Rabi MOHTAR (AUB) – “Climate change impact on water and food and the role of the water energy food nexus”

 

17:30 – 18:30 | Panel Discussion #B: “Impacts and Challenges”

Moderator/Convener: Theodore PANAYOTOU (CIIM)
Participants: P. KELAMIS, P. POLYCARPOU, K. NEUMANN, G. LIPMAN, L. CHRISTOPHOROU, F. COMAIR, R. MOHTAR, R. CHAABOUNI, A. GRAVES, J. LELIEVELD, G. CHRISTOPHIDES, H. BAKIR

 

DAY 2 (19 ΜΑΥ 2018) | SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Saturday 19th May 2018
08:00-08:40 | REGISTRATION & WELCOME COFFEE
 

08:40 – 10:40 | SESSION #5 – “Mitigation & Adaptation: New initiatives” Chairperson: Vassilis TSAKALOS

Wolfgang CRAMER (MedECC) – “Environmental change represents multiple risks for sustainable development in the Mediterranean Basin”
Theodoulos MESIMERIS (DoE) – “Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation National Plans”
Charles ELLINAS (eCNHC) – “Challenges to a smooth energy transition”
Khaled TOUKAN (SESAME) – “Jordan’s Energy Profile in Transition”
Manuel J. BLANCO (CyI) – “The role of Concentrating Solar Thermal technologies in the Global Energy Transition”
Lassina ZERBO (CTBTO) – “Innovative Solutions to Climate Change: the Contribution of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization”

 
10:40-11:10 COFFEE BREAK   “Pentadaktylos” Restaurant
 

11:10 – 12:10 | Panel Discussion #C: “Mitigation & Adaptation: New Initiatives”

Moderator/Convener: Phoebe KOUNDOURI (AUEB, LSE)
Participants: P. HADJINICOLAOU, W. CRAMER, T. MESIMERIS, M. BLANCO, C. ELLINAS

 
12:10-13:20 LUNCH   “Pentadaktylos” Restaurant
 

13:20 – 14:40 | SESSION #6 – “Policy Challenges & Policy Options” Chairperson: Joanna HAIGH

Maria Cristina FACCHINI (CNR) – “Facing climate change, a Mediterranean perspective”
Richard COOPER, (Harvard Univ.) – “Pricing versus cap-and-trade: the case for a global price”
Androulla VASSILIOU (former EU Commissioner for Health, Education, Culture, Multilingualism & Youth) “Education Crucial to Combating Climate Change as well as for Climate Change Adaptation”
Anastasios GIANNITSIS (former Interior Minister, Greece) – “Climate change: Economic & social governance challenges in Eastern Mediterranean”

 

14:00 – 15:40 | Panel Discussion #D: “Policy: Addressing the Challenges”

Moderator/Convener: Edouard BREZIN (ENS)
Participants: A. ALAOUI BENSALAH, H. HELAL, T. THEMISTOKLEOUS, R. COOPER, A. VASSILIOU, T. GIANNITSIS, J. HAIGH

 
15:40-16:10 | COFFEE BREAK  “Pentadaktylos” Restaurant
 

16:10 – 17:50 | SESSION #7 – Concluding Session Chairperson: Costas PAPANICOLAS

Jeffrey SACHS (Columbia Univ., SDSN) “Climate change: The Middle East North Africa Challenge”
Christos STYLIANIDES (EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid & Crisis Management) “The challenge of Climate Change and the rescEU proposal to strengthen the European system of civil protection”
Jean SCIARE (CyI) – “Addressing climate changes in the EMME region: The research frontier”
Laurent FABIUS – Closing Ceremony
End of the Conference