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CCF summer symposium ‘Climate Change adaptation in the International Year of Biodiversity’

April 22nd, 2010

Over 80 people  attended the CCF Summer Symposium, which was held on Monday 21st June, to hear a range of interesting speakers reflect and challenge current thinking on climate change adaptation in the International Year of Biodiversity.  The programme is available here.  Many of the presentations are available in pdf form here and a summary of the discussions in the ’speed date’  session is available here.

New CCF Vision Document

August 13th, 2010

The  CCF Vision which was developed at a special council meeting last year and at the Vision session at the Annual CCF Symposium in January, has now been finalised and can be seen here.

 

What large tropical forest plots have taught us

May 6th, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 12 noon
What large tropical forest plots have taught us – Dr Bert Leigh, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Seminar Room, Plant Sciences

Dr Bert Leigh, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

WHERE: Seminar Room, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge
WHEN: Thursday, May 13, 12 noon

Frontier forests: an economic approach to financing conservation

May 6th, 2010
Wednesday, May 12th , 13.00
Frontier forests: an economic approach to financing conservation – Giovanni Boglino, Frontier Forests
UNEP-WCMC, 219 Huntingdon Road CB3 0DL

Giovanni Boglino, Frontier Forests

WHERE: UNEP-WCMC, 219 Huntingdon Road, CB3 0DL
WHEN: Wednesday, May 12th , 13.00

The evolution of mutualism (between species) and the role of mutualism in evolution

May 6th, 2010

Dr Bert Leigh, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

WHERE: Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology
WHEN: Tuesday 11th  May 2010, 17:00

Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity

April 22nd, 2010

SPEAKER: Andy Purvis (Imperial College London)

WHEN: Friday 23 April 2010: 13:00
WHERE: UNEP-WCMC

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Council minutes

The next council meeting will be on September 23rd at 1 PM , at UNEP-WCMC.  Minutes from previous meetings are below: