Photo: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
24 October 2013, 10.00 – 16.00
The Stanisław Staszic Palace, Mirror Room
Warsaw, ul. Nowy Świat 72
On 23-26 September 2013 in Stockholm, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has presented the findings of the Working Group I on the scientific basis of climate change, a part of the ongoing work on the Fifth Assessment Report.
In Poland, anthropogenic causes of climate change are widely disputed. Consequently, climate policies are dismissed as extravagant and detrimental to the economy. This fall, however, climate change is expected to come to the public’s attention with the 19th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP19) taking place in Warsaw 11-22 November 2013.
The Conference, attended by world-class experts involved in international research projects, will help communicate scientific findings to the Polish public more effectively. It may also have a positive influence on the quality of the debate on climate change in Poland.
Polish Academy of Sciences, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Institute for Sustainable Development and Climate Coalition have invited both foreign and Polish experts in the field, who will present the findings of the Working Group I, explain how results of scientific research, in this particular case relating to climate change, are communicated to the general public in specific countries, and discuss what recent findings of the Working Group I mean for Poland.
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9.30-10.00 Registration
10.00-10.15 Opening – organizers’ speeches:
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Prof. Michał Kleiber – President of the Polish Academy of Sciences
10.15-11.15 Key speeches:
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Prof. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber – Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany
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Tom Sheldon – Senior Press Officer of the Science Media Centre, London, the United Kingdom
11.15-12.45 Discussion panel I
How to communicate findings of scientific research on climate change to the public?
moderator Ewa Podolska – journalist, TokFM
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Prof. Zbigniew Kundzewicz – member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, expert on IPPC
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Jacek Żakowski – journalist, „Polityka”
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Marcin Popkiewicz – nuclear physicist, entrepreneur, journalist, author of "Świat na rozdrożu" and the portal "Ziemia na rozdrożu"
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Michał Koczalski – Head of Energy & Environment Practice, CEC Government Relations
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Przemysław Sadura – President of the Field of Dialogue Foundation, lecturer at the Institute of Sociology and the Department of Economics of the University of Warsaw
12.45-13.45 Lunch
13.45-15.00 Discussion panel II
The findings of the IPCC Working Group I included in the Fifth Assessment Report – what does it mean for Poland?
moderator Andrzej Kassenberg, Ph.D. – President of the Institute for Sustainable Development
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Beata Jaczewska – Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Environment, Poland
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Prof. Halina Lorenc – Coordinator in the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management
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Daria Kulczycka – Director of the Department of Energy and Climate Change, Polish Confederation of Private Employers “Lewiatan”
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Urszula Stefanowicz – Coordinator in the Climate Coalition
15.00-15.45 Summary:
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Prof. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber – Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany
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Tom Sheldon – Senior Press Officer of the Science Media Centre, the United Kingdom
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Prof. Michał Kleiber – President of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Languages:
English and Polish – simultaneous interpretation
All who want to participate in the conference please complete this conference FORM before 18 October 2013.
If you have any questions about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact the Institute for Sustainable Development by phone at (22) 851 04 03 (02, 04), or by email at Patrycja Manthey (p.manthey@ine-isd.org.pl)