Meeting Report - CDKN Global

Acknowledgements On behalf of the international organizing committee, I would like to thank Drs. Celso Lafer and Carlos Brito Cruz, President and Scientific Director of FAPESP, respectively, and to Dr. Reynaldo Victoria, coordinator of the FAPESP Program on Research on Global Change for all the help provided by FAPESP for the organization and implementation of the meeting. Special thanks to Ms. Vera Sirin, Maria da Graça S. Mascarenhas and Marina Loureiro Madeira Porto from FAPESP for their help on the organization and logistics of the event, to Samuel Antenor and Marcelo Meletti from FAPESP for organizing the press conference and taking care of the press coverage of the event. IPCC Working Groups I and II, the IPCC, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), supported by Norway’s Climate and Pollution Agency and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, organized a series of IPCC SREX Outreach events around the world as a means to inform about the possible impacts of and options for managing the risks of climate extremes and disasters. We thank Kris Ebi and Vicente Barros from IPCC WG2 for supporting the realization of the IPCC SREX Outreach meeting in Brazil. We acknowledge the support from Laura Biagioni from WMO for sending the pen drives with the digital versions of the IPCC SREX report, Sue Martin for taking care of the communication for the event in UK, Tom Mitchell from ODI for his support on the organization of the meeting, and from Emma Lovell and Shirley Matheson also from ODI for taking care of the logistics of flights. Thanks are due to the IPCC Trust Fund for providing travel support for some participants, and adding thanks to Working Group I and to the Norwegians for providing funding for the event. Additional thanks go to Vanessa Morales from CDKN for her help in the organization of the meeting, and to Yara Ferreira and Alessandra Lobão from APLBA for taking care of the management of the funds from CDKN to cover participation of several national and international participants, and for sending the CDKN regional reports. Lastly, I thank my institution INPE for supporting the realization of the IPCC SREX Outreach event in São Paulo, Brazil. 26