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One Talk, Two Heads: Bloviating on Climate Adaptation in Two Languages
12/08/09 12:05
This
video is a fair
representation of the overview adaptation
talk I've been giving for the past few months,
describing how climate adaptation differs from
much of the economic development and
conservation work up to now and how climate
adaptation has some special challenges and
opportunities for the water sector. Filmed on 3
August 2009 in Brasilia, DF, Brazil, this is a
long flick at 25 minutes, so brace yourself.
Although I appear visually a few times in the
stream, most of what you see are the
presentation slides filling the screen with me
(in English) and Martin Charles (my most
excellent Portuguese translator) delivering the
substance of the keynote talk to a live audience
of leading policy and resource management staff
from various government and civil society
groups. The event was billed as a climate
adaptation workshop, spanning two days at a
place called the LBV (very interesting in
itself) but hosted by WWF-Brazil. Filmed in
August 2009. Read
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