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. A PDF of the presentation is also
available (be aware! cuidado! 11 mb!).
Bart Wickel (WWF-US) held the cam (though mostly you
just hear the voices from the video — visuals from
the event are not too interesting really). Glauco
Kimura de Freitas (WWF-Brazil) and Samuel Barreto
(WWF-Brazil) are thanked as the organizers and
sponsors for the event.