Environment Institute

Communicating climate risk and the implications for food security – looking to COP16 and beyond

Held on 16th November 2010


This was a discussion meeting on Communicating Climate Risk and the Implications for Food Security – Looking to COP16 and Beyond.

This event marked the run-up to the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP16) in Cancun, Mexico, and was hosted by the UCL Institutes for Risk & Disaster Reduction, Global Health, and the Environment, in collaboration with the Humanitarian Futures Programme at King’s College London and the Advisory Committee on Protection of the Sea.

Several short presentations were shown and a debate ledd by a panel of experts: Professor Lord Julian Hunt (UCL Earth Sciences), Professor Anthony Costello (UCL Centre for International Health & Development), Emma Visman (King's College London) and Elsie Owusu (JustGhana) followed.