http://www.cipra.org daily 1 2006-11-20T21:28:24Z http://www.cipra.org/en/alpmedia/events/1852 UNWTO launches its 2008 Photo Competition around this year’s World Tourism Day (WTD) theme: “Tourism Responding to the Challenge of Climate Change”. This competition is part of the year-long campaign highlighting the call for action towards a climate neutral planet.<br/>“This online photo competition will showcase climate solutions in tourism – business and leisure travel – from around the world. Examples include communities, companies and individuals –visiting or visited - acting to help respond to climate change as tourism stakeholders. Whether they are airlines testing new fuel, hotels installing solar energy, villages educating guests on good practice or tourists offsetting their impacts”, says UNWTO Assistant- Secretary General and Spokesperson Geoffrey Lipman.<br/> No publisher zopemaster 2008-07-17T22:57:29Z CipraEvent http://www.cipra.org/en/alpmedia/events/1953 acqua alta® is, in 2008 too, the only event worldwide which offers solutions through information and presentations. The Congress gives answers to questions relating to climate change, climate effects and climate protection and the repercussions on floods and disasters. The causes, prevention, warning systems, help and safety will be dis-cussed before an international audience at the acqua alta Congress 2008. Flood control continues to be the priority of the Congress. In future, the question of CO2 emissions, which are one of the essential causes of global warming, will also be included in the topics for discussion.<br/>The concentration of the greenhouse gas CO2 is increasing more rapidly than even before. Adaptation of existing political frame conditions is imperative and will be included again in the „acqua alta 08“ agenda. The United Nations Environment Programme „UNEP“ and the World Meteorological Organization will present their latest findings at the „acqua alta 08“ in Hamburg in 2008. No publisher zopemaster 2008-09-22T23:50:44Z CipraEvent http://www.cipra.org/en/alpmedia/events/1825 The NCCR Climate invites scientists to the "International Dimensions of Climate Policies" conference that will take place on 21 - 23 January 2009 in Bern, Switzerland. Contributions from the following fields are welcome:<br/>* Trade theoretical foundations of integrated assessment models<br/>* Trade implications of promoting adaptation<br/>* Effect of technological transfers and spillovers in the context of global climate policies<br/>* International competitiveness in the presence of climate policies<br/><br/>The conference will cover a broad spectrum of climate economic research issues and foster cross-disciplinary links. Each topic includes a keynote plenary lecture and numerous parallel sessions. It is open to all interested researchers. No publisher zopemaster 2008-06-05T23:33:18Z CipraEvent http://www.cipra.org/en/alpmedia/events/1851 The Organisers of the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP15) to be held in Copenhagen at the end of 2009 have asked IARU to organise this Congress as a part of the run-up to the COP15. The purpose of the Congress is to try and capture some of the enormous research energy currently being devoted to the elucidation, mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Thus, the focus of the Congress is on providing a picture of the big issues” that the scientifi c community feels is necessary that policy makers are aware of in order to make enlightened decisions with respect to the balancing of adaptation and mitigation in the societal response to climate change. No publisher zopemaster 2008-07-17T22:57:25Z CipraEvent http://www.cipra.org/en/alpmedia/events/2041 No publisher zopemaster 2008-11-15T01:02:24Z CipraEvent http://www.cipra.org/en/alpmedia/events/1999 The reasons for the new location of the Open Meeting in Bonn are far from being exclusively financial. Beautifully located at the banks of the Rhine River, the city has managed over the past decade to shape for itself a new profile as the German City of the United Nations and a centre of international dialogue on key issues of the future. Since July 1996, Bonn is entitled to call itself a UN City. Ten years later, in July 2006, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel was able to hand the new branch office of the United Nations over to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The IHDP Secretariat, since 2007 the 14th UN agency in Germany and being part of the UN University, is looking forward to welcoming the global Human Dimensions community to the UN Campus.<br/>Read more... <br/> No publisher zopemaster 2008-10-23T23:59:21Z CipraEvent http://www.cipra.org/en/alpmedia/events/1892 In Italy, as in the rest of the world, the market centred on renewable energy is capable of guaranteeing high returns in economic development and job creation.<br/><br/>Climate change, the security of energy supplies and the global economic crisis impose categorical obligations on our medium- and long-term development strategies and clearly indicate the course to be followed to change the way we perceive economic and energy development which is sustainable for the planet.<br/><br/>In the run-up to Expo Milano 2015, EnerSolar+ will be launched in 2009 with the aim of taking advantage of the likely synergies and shared imperatives with the Milan International Festival for the Environment.<br/>EnerSolar+ is the new sector wholly dedicated to technologies and services required to achieve sustainable energy. It represents a developing sector within the scope of EnerMotive 2009, the international exhibition dedicated to Power and Factory, which is scheduled to take place from 26th to 30th May 2009 in parallel with LivinLuce 2009, the international exhibition dedicated to Building and Lighting.<br/><br/>EnerSolar+ will form the technological heart for the development of sustainable industrial solutions in the broad arena of the intellectual exchange of ideas, projects and programmes which the International Festival for the Environment represents.<br/><br/>Thanks to these two events, one socio-cultural, the other business-oriented, Milan in 2009 will become the most important international platform for environmental sustainability, the protection of the environment and the conservation of the planet’s resources. All of this is due to take place in the build-up to Expo Milano 2015.<br/><br/>In addition to focusing on the solar photovoltaic and thermal energy sectors, EnerSolar+ will showcase the most advanced solutions in terms of energy production from other renewable sources: wind, hydroelectricity, geo-thermal, biomass, liquid biofuels and biogases, hydrogen and fuel cells, energy produced from cogeneration and distributed generation. No publisher zopemaster 2008-08-14T23:54:07Z CipraEvent http://www.cipra.org/en/alpmedia/events/2000 The European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE), in co-operation with the University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, are pleased to invite you to join us in Ljubljana, Slovenia for the 8th biennial international conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics with the title "TRANSFORMATION, INNOVATION AND ADAPTATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY – INTEGRATING NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES" at 29 June – 2 July 2009 No publisher zopemaster 2008-10-23T23:59:23Z CipraEvent