Today Event

Climate Change Research Group Easter meeting

'African Climate and Climate Change: Physical, Social and Political Perspectives'

Walker Institute for Climate System Research, University of Reading

Past Events

Climate change: scenarios, impacts and adaptation?

Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, 20th February 2008

Knowledge Tuesday

The Salisbury - Leicester Square, 90 St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4AP, 13th November 07

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference 2007 and CCRG Annual General Meeting (AGM)
RSG-IBG and Imperial College, 29th-31st August 2007

CCRG (with IHDP) Postgraduate Meeting
University of Leeds, 29th-30th March 2007

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference 2006

Theme: Global Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability.

This year's RGS-IBG research conference was held over three days from 30th August - 1st September 2006.  It was the main conference of the RGS-IBG research groups and the CCRG hosted three core sessions on Thursday 31st August; (i) global, (ii) regional and (iii) local climate change & variability. 

The CCRG Plenary had papers presented by Professor Peter Cox (Science Director, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) and Professor Michael Grubb (Associate Director of Policy at the UK Carbon trust, visiting professor at Imperial College and editor of Climate Policy). A response was provided by Dr Karen O'Brien, associate professor University of Oslo and chair of the the Global Environmental Change and Human Security project of the International Human Dimension Programme.

Two further sessions, in association with the Developing Areas Research Group (disasters, development & generosity), took place on Friday 1st September.


Further Conference details are available via the following link:

CCRG Session Details

Caribbean Climate Change Conference

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CCRG Annual Meeting,Oxford, 23-24th March 2006

A two-day event held at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment (OUCE) thoroughly enjoyed by all participants.

Day 1:Open meeting of the CCRG
Participants presented current research and there was opportunity for networking for geographers and other interested  parties working in the climate change field.  In the evening dinner was arranged at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University.

Dr Mark New, OUCE

Day 2: Postgraduate Meeting:

The session attracted postgraduates to present work. It was also an  opportunity to network and have some discussion about the challenges  of being a postgraduate and finding future work in the Climate Change field.  Participants for both days presented short papers on their current research.

There was also the chance to discuss postgraduate research with PhD and MSc. students from across the country, as well as present work to a friendly and forgiving audience!

Co-ordinator: Professor Diana Liverman, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, with Mr. David Preece (Postgraduate Representative), and Mr. Charles Williams (University of Sussex).