Global Voices is one of the blogs invited to attend the United Nations High Level Event on Climate Change in New York [1], Monday September 24th.
I am honored to be representing GV at the conference, and will be attending the sessions.
– Thematic Plenary I – Adaptation – From Vulnerability to Resilience 10am – 1pm
– “Global Voices on climate Change” [2] 1:15pm – 2:45pm – Hosted by Kenya, Indonesia, Poland and Denmark.
– Thematic Plenary Afternoon – Adaptation.
The rationale behind attending these particular sessions is that, earlier this year, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report that mentioned that climate change will likely have a ‘graver effect’ on Africa [3]. I am hoping the session gives us some more information about adaptation initiatives that can help Africa deal with climate change.
The other sessions going on are listed here [2]. Boing Boing [4] will also be live blogging the event. The site ‘Live from the UN’ [5] will contain links to all the posts about the event and you can also watch the sessions online at the UN website [1].