POGO & AOSED Side Event at COP24

You are invited to the “Enhancing ocean and climate observing in developing nations using low-cost technologies and capacity development” side event at the UNFCCC COP24 in Katowice, Poland.

When & where:
Tuesday, 4 December 2018, 16:45 – 18:15 (UTC+01) in the Narew room

About:
POGO and AOSED are both organisations working to develop/deploy low-cost technologies & provide capacity development for ocean & climate observing in coastal waters of developing nations. In this session, representatives will share their perspectives & experience. Stakeholders from these nations are invited to discuss their resource management needs.

The event will be webcast live via the official UNFCCC portal and will be available in the archive thereafter.

Chair:
Sophie Seeyave, CEO, Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO)

Presentations:

• Assessing Loss & Damage of Low Exposed Sudden Onset Disasters (NCCB) (Presenters: Mizanur Rahman Bijoy, Coordinator, NCCB & Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman, NCCB)
• Adaptive Strategy towards Resiliency of Climate Exposed communities (Presenter: Shamim Arfeen, Executive Director, AOSED)

• Observations of coastal waters in developing countries: the OpenMODs philosophy and approach (Presenter:  Alessandro Crise, Research Director, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS)
• Capacity development in ocean and climate science (Presenter: Eva-Maria Brodte, Scientific coordinator of the NF-POGO Centre of Excellence, Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI))

Followed by questions from the audience, and a panel discussion.

More details are available here: http://ocean-partners.org/cop24-side-event-pogo-aosed

We hope you will be able to join us!

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