“Climate Change and the Most Vulnerable Countries - the Imperative to Act”

8 July 2008, United Nations Headquarters

 

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE SPEAKERS

  • H.E. Srgjan Kerim, President of the General Assembly
  • H.E. Asha-Rose Migiro, Deputy-Secretary-General
  • Ogunlade Davidson, Co-chair of the Working Group III, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • Eugene Linden, author and journalist
  • Reid Basher, Senior Coordinator, Secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
  • Ian Noble, World Bank, Senior Climate Change Specialist
  • Cheik Sidi Diarra, United Nations, High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States