Turn Down the Heat: Confronting the New Climate Normal
The Wilson Center’s Latin American Program and Environmental Change and Security Program and the World Bank’s Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Region are pleased to invite you a discussion of the LAC portion of the World Bank’s new report, Turn down the heat : confronting the new climate normal (full report available in English; English summary available here).
A summary of the LAC portion of the report is available in Spanish: Bajemos la temperatura : Cómo hacer frente a la nueva realidad climática .
The report—co-authored by Bank experts and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research—analyzes the challenges that Latin America and the Caribbean face due to climate change impacts.
Speakers
Jorge Familiar, Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, The World Bank
Karin Kemper, Senior Regional Adviser, The World Bank
Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, Senior Policy Advisor, Conservation International
Gustavo Fonseca, Director of Programs, Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Moderator
Cynthia Arnson, Director, Latin American Program, Wilson Center
Event Sponsors
Hosted By
Latin America Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more