The Cost of Adaptation to Climate Change 1.11.11

9:00-9:30 Registration

9:30-10:00 Greetings:

Prof. Ofira Ayalon, Director, NRERC

Prof. Michal Yerushalmy – Vice President and Dean of Research University of Haifa

Mr. Gilad Erdan ,MK , Minister of Environmental Protection : Israel and Climate Change

10:00-11:45 Session 1:
Global view Chair: Dr. Ruslana Rachel Palatnik – Deputy Director, NRERC, Academic College Of Emek Yezreel, FEEM

Prof. Emeritus Mordechai Shechter- Senior Research Fellow, NRERC, and Dean, School of Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya: Past, present and future economic aspects of climate change – The Israeli case

Prof. Francesco Bosello- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) of Milan, University Statale of Milan and Italian “Euromediterranean Center for Climate Change” (CMCC): From Rio to Durban: A skeptical view on climate negotiations
(Session will be held in English) Discussion

11:45-12:00 Coffee break

12:00-13:30 Session 2:
 Local view :Chair: Prof. Ofira Ayalon , Director, NRERC, and Department of Natural Resource and Environmental Management, University of Haifa, and Samuel Neaman Institute, for Advanced Research , Technion

• Dr. Yeshayahu Bar-Or, Senior Deputy-Director for Natural Resources, Ministry of Environmental Protection: Building knowledge infrastructure to prepare for climate change(Hebrew)

• Dr. Sinaia. Netanyahu, Chief Scientist Ministry of Environmental Protection:
Existing knowledge as a basis for implementation of national climate adaptation policies (Hebrew)

• Dr. Ruslana Rachel Palatnik: Economic models to assess the cost of adaptation (Hebrew)

• Dr. Iddo Kan, NRERC, and the Hebrew University ,Faculty of Agriculture, and Dr. Jonathan Kaminsky and Professor Aliza Fleischer ,the Hebrew University, Faculty of Agriculture:
Targeting climate change adaptation measures in vegetative agriculture through an economic analysis of the agricultural land use

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Session 3:
 Chair Prof. Mordechai Shechter : Application of economic tools to greenhouse gases treatment policy in the U.S. and Israel

• Dr. Ann Wolverton , Research and Program Support Division, US EPA : “It’s all about the money: Economics of Climate Change-the US perspective”

• Prof. Ofira Ayalon: National program to greenhouse gas emissions reduction- Israeli National Plan

• Discussion