Serageldin Assesses Regional Climate Change Impact
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Alexandria—
As one of the forty founding members of the Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum, Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, was invited on 2 October 2009 to speak at the STS Annual Meeting, which is held on the first Sunday of October every year in Kyoto, Japan. He contributed as speaker and rapporteur at three of the five sessions of the Regional Climate Change (RCC) Conference on Developing an International Framework for Regional Climate Change Impact Assessments Designed to Support Local Action, which is a special adjunct session of the STS forum Meeting this year. The sessions assessed issues such as water quantity and quality, ecosystems, agriculture and health in North and South America, Asia, Europe and Africa, and discussed what actions need to be taken.
The forum annually gathers top policymakers, business leaders, scientists, researchers, media leaders and Nobel laureates from all over the world, to address science and technology issues in the 21st century. Its aim is to build a human network of a very broad range of participants and organizations that would, in time, resolve the new types of problems stemming from the application of science and technology.