Human Support Systems: Risks to Global Water Resources with Dr. Peter Gleick, President and CO-Founder, Pacific Institute Oakland, California

Human Support Systems: What Happens to the Coral Reefs? with Dr. Janice Lough, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Queenstand, Australia

The changing state of the climate: Observed climate changes and impacts: 650,000 years to now.

Setting the Context with Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber CBE, Director, Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Resarch, Postdam, Germany

Projected Extreme Temperatures: Possible 21st Century Climates

Synergies and trade-offs are inherent in the attempt to achieve the triple wins of food security, increased resilience and mitigation to climate change. This PODCAST is an introduction to better understanding of economic and social synergies and trade-offs between adaptation, mitigation and food security and provides an insight into integrated models and decision-support tools for national decision makers in order to help prioritize agricultural actions, technologies and practices.

A recent study conducted by the World Bank has developed a set of broad actions that cities can undertake to build resilience particularly for those at greatest risk. Judy Baker, Lead Economist in Urban Practice at the World Bank Institute discuss the studies key findings in her presentation.

Renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies are essential elements of low carbon development strategies as Dr. Nathan Hultman, Director of Environmental Policy program at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy discusses in his presentation.

The recent social unrest and political uprisings in the Middle East have underscored the perils of high rates of unemployment, especially among youth. Youth unemployment is high in all regions of the world, much higher than adult unemployment as Derek Chen an economist at the World Bank Institute discusses further in his presentation.

At 4:30 AM the morning of Sunday December 11, 2011, some 36 hours later than the official closing time, the 17th meeting so the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (or COP-17) came to an end in Durban. The broad agreement reached by the 194 participating countries is the subject of Neeraj Prasad presentation.