The meeting, organized by the Regional Center for Climate Change and Decision Making, took place on August 19 and 20, 2015 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

More than 140 experts in climate change and decision making from the public and private sector, academic community, civil society, journalists and media representatives attended.

Key panels and discussion tables on climate change and decision-making were scheduled in three working sessions: Session 1 on “Links Between Science and Climate Change Policy,” Session 2 “Decision-Making Related to Climate Change”, and Session 3 “Institutional Strategies to Integrate Climate Change into Public Policy.”.

The event consisted of discussions between the academic community, governments, civil society, and the private sector. It turned out to be an opportunity for considering and analyzing ways to strengthen relationships and collaborative networks dealing with climate change

Click on the following links to view presentations and meeting developments.

SESSION 1: Links Between Science and Climate Change Policy
Panel: Challenges and Strategies in the Relation Between Science and Policies

Presentation on the current situation by Pedro Jacobi, University of São Paulo, USP, Brazil.

Document “Challenges and Strategies to Strengthen Relationships between Science and Climate Change Policy,”. Pedro Roberto Jacobi and Roberta de Assis Maia.

SESSION 2: Decision-Making Related to Climate Change.

Panel: Decision Processes in Adaptation.

Lecture on the current situation by Eduardo Bustos, UC Global Change Center, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile.

Document “Decision-Making Processes and Adaptation to Climate Change,”. Eduardo Bustos S. and Sebastián Vicuña.

SESSION 3: Institutional Design to Integrate Climate Change into Public Policy.

Panel: Institutional Strategies and Climate Change.

Presentation on the current situation by Daniel Ryan, Regional Center for Climate Change and Decision Making (in Spanish Centro Regional de Cambio Climático y Toma de Decisiones)

Document “Design of the Climate Institutionality. Contributions for an Analysis” by Daniel Ryan

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