Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/01/2015
15:00 - 16:00
Location
ICCCAD Conference Room
Categories
The next instalment of the ICCCAD Seminar Series will be taking place on Tuesday, January at the ICCCAD Conference Room. Moushumi Chaudhury will be presenting in a seminar titled “Presentation on how findings from climate scientific research can be connected to decision making”
About the seminar
Climate change vulnerability assessments (CCVAs) are an important tool for understanding the extent and ways in which, climate change affects ecological and human systems. Although CCVAs provide critical information to plan for climate change, few decision makers use CCVAs in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating climate change adaptation policies and projects. This presentation will provide a framework for understanding the process by which scientists and decision-makers integrate CCVAs into adaptation and development policy or planning. The presentation discusses key ingredients needed to merge scientific evidence in CCVAs with adaptation decision making successfully.
About the speaker
Moushumi is an Associate in the Vulnerability and Adaptation Initiative within the Institutions and Governance Program at the World Resources Institute. She works on a variety of topics, including developing a model to help understand how scientific findings can integrated with decision making. She is working on developing a framework to understand how climate change adaptation projects can be scaled. Moushumi is managing a project to enable the Government of Fiji become ready to apply to the Green Climate Fund. She also provides training on how to develop participatory scenarios for adaptation decision making.
Moushumi has worked with various development organizations and research institutes. Most recently she has worked with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) covering East & West Africa, and South Asia while based in Kenya. Her work focused on gender as well as participatory adaptation scenario development. Prior to her experience with CCAFS, she worked with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in New York coordinating global activities on biodiversity and poverty reduction. She has also worked with the Center for International Forestry Research Institute (CIFOR), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and BRAC Bangladesh.
Moushumi holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Sussex in Brighton, England. She has an MS in Natural Resources and Environment from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a BA in Anthropology & Sociology from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
