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Conference 'Towards a climate proof society'

On 27 November 2008, the Knowledge for Climate programme together with the Climate changes Spatial Planning Research programme organised the conference Towards a climate proof society in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. 
 
International speakers were Ken Livingstone (former Mayor of London), James Hansen (a world leading climate scientist involved in the climate policy debate).
 
Voorkant PCCC brochure
Prime Minister Balkenende receives PCCC brochure Staat van het Klimaat 2007
 
Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende received the brochure "Staat van het Klimaat 2007" which gives an overview of the scientific climate change research and climate policy in the Netherlands, during the year 2007. 
 
 
An impression of the presentation on February 19, 2008, Press Centre Nieuwspoort, The Hague
 
Watch the press meeting diashow
 
 
 

Langeweg, Vellinga, Van der Wulp and Balkenende
Vellinga, Langeweg, Van Dorland
 
 
Sheet PCCC brochure

Vellinga presents

kabat and balkenende
 
 
Kabat and Balkenende
 

Balkenende and Vellinga
Balkenende and the brochure

 

 
          
 
 
 
 
 
Deltacommissie
Dutch Delta Committee
 
The Dutch Delta Committee has been asked to advise about the protection of the Netherlands against climate change. The advice was published on 3 September 2008. Safety against floods and an attractive place to live were the main focuses of the report. Water management was the main emphasis: protection against floods and security of the availability of drinking water.
 
 
 
 
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Conference 'Towards a climate proof society'
Dutch Prime Minister receives PCCC brochure State of Climate 2007
Dutch Delta Committee
Programme Climate changes Spatial Planning
 
Climate change is one of the major environmental issues for the coming years, both regionally and globally. The Netherlands are expected to face climate change impacts on all land use related sectors and on water management, and therefore on spatial planning in general. The programme “Climate changes Spatial Planning” focuses to enhance joint-learning between those to communities and people in practice within spatial planning. It's mission is to get climate change and climate variability one of the guiding principles for spatial planning in the Netherlands.
CcSP News and Publications

New CcSP Publications added in Publication database (selection June 2009)
  • IC03 - Land Use Scanner introduction; model basics and new developments, Land Use Scanner class for the Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL)
  • IC03 - New Land Use Scanner developments, Knowledge sharing with the ESF-funded EcoTRADE project
  • IC03 - Use of indicators in land-use models for impact assessment or policy analysis, Workshop “Modelling of EU land-use choices and environmental impacts”