Closing Date: October 4, 2015.

Adaptation Futures 2016 is the fourth PROVIA worldwide adaptation conference. It will be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands from 10 – 13 May 2016. The conference aims to move climate change adaptation forward by promoting solutions across sectors, borders and communities.

Adaptation Futures 2016 offers a platform to exchange new and practical ideas, experiences and insights for climate change adaptation. Participants are invited to share their research findings, public and commercial solutions, and policy issues. They are asked to demonstrate how their findings might be applicable to other communities, countries or sectors. Over four days, there will be opportunities to meet, mingle, inspire and develop partnerships.

Adaptation Futures 2016 comprises conference and workshop sessions on science, practice and policy. Participants can show and explain their solutions in an exhibition, make commercial contacts in a business fair and connect with their peers in field excursions to adaptation projects. Three types of sessions will be offered: science sessions, practice sessions (including policy practice) and combined science-practice sessions. The organisers invite proposals for full sessions that fit one of the three categories, as well as abstracts for individual presentations in the science sessions. They are particularly interested in combined science-practice sessions.

Many companies and public authorities contribute to scientific research, or conduct research themselves. Science sessions are therefore open to those wishing to present scientific findings and solutions relevant to climate change adaptation. Businesses, practitioners, policymakers, designers, investors and decision makers can also interact with scientists to explore and discuss solutions to the adaptation challenge in practice sessions, or propose solution-oriented science-practice sessions.

Seven sectoral themes have been identified to guide session proposals:

·       Cities and infrastructure

·       Food, forestry and rural livelihoods

·       Freshwater availability and access

·       Public health

·       Ecosystems and ecosystem-based adaptation

·       Disaster risk reduction

·       The Arctic

The Adaptation Futures 2016 conference is co-sponsored by PROVIA, the European Commission and Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Closing Date: August 31,2015.

CIFOR is sponsoring a video competition on the topic of why forests are vital to a sustainable future. All languages are welcome, although non-English videos must have English subtitles.

We want you to tell the world how forests fit into the bigger picture. Make a video – of no longer than 2 minutes – showing why forests are vital to a sustainable future. We will help to get your message out there by promoting your video on our website, Facebook and Twitter.

Just as you don’t need to be near forests to benefit from them, you don’t have to be standing in a forest to show the world why they matter. You might be living in a city or out on the farm, you might be using a fancy camera, holding out your phone, or making animations on your computer – the only limit is your imagination.

The competition offers prizes of US$4 thousand (winner chosen by judges) and US$1 thousand (winner chosen by online voting).

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