Opening Session

10:30–13:00 Strategic Lectures

Chair: David Burridge

Jean Palutikof: IPCC WG II, Head TSU
- on the main messages from the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: impacts of climate change

Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General WMO
"The evolving role of WMO in climate change adaptation"

André Jol, EEA Head of Group Climate Change & Energy
- on Impacts of and adaptation to climate change in Europe

Walter Dabberdt, AMS President
"A Perfect Storm? – The looming urban grand challenge."

Tim Palmer, ECMWF
"Seamless prediction of weather and climate: bringing the insights and constraints of NWP into the climate-change arena."

Profiles of Speakers

Full Opening Programme

Opening speakers will be available for interviews.