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Second Conference on Climate Change "Evidence of Global Warming in the Dominican Republic"
Santo Domingo, August 22-23, 2007

Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) will be organizing the Second Conference on Climate Change: "Evidence of Global Warming in the Dominican Republic." The conference will take place August 22-23, 2007 at the FUNGLODE Auditorium in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

The conference seeks to: increase public awareness and spark collective action; enable multi-stakeholder participation and dialogue; gather and systematize climate data available in the country; disseminate information to climate change professionals and policy makers; identify research gaps; bring together climate change professionals to asses regional capacity in order to better manage the impacts of climate change; and promote research and monitoring of climate change in the Dominican Republic.

Central themes of the forum will include:

• Climatology in the Dominican Republic
• Climate & Economy
• Temperature Rise & El Niño
• Drought
• The Impact of Global Warming on Coastal Resources: Bávaro & Punta Cana
• Coral Bleaching: La Caleta
• Desertification
• Biodiversity
• Public Health: Dengue & Malaria

For more information concerning the Climate Change Conference, please contact:

Emy Rodríguez
GFDD Environmental Projects Coordinator
erodriguez@globalfoundationdd.org

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