Mark it in your calendars: The upcoming online conference CLIMATE 2011 will feature "Climate Change + disaster risk management"! See more on www.climate2011.net.

This year we again issue the “Best Paper Award” in collaboration with Emerald Publishers. Please vote for your favorite authors and chose your favorite papers from the four categories.

Win 1 of 10 free books on „Universities and Climate Change". E-mail to Johanna: (a) Header “CLIMATE 2010 Book Lottery”, (b) conference user name, (c) full postal address. Winners are informed by e-mail. Good luck!

Did you know? A special features of this year’s conference is the conference section CC at your fingertips which offers free learning material for lecturers and teachers. Climate change games provide a playful way of getting involved with the key conference themes and a CO₂ calculator allows conference participants to assess their own CO₂ footprint.

Take a look behind the scenes before the official conference start on 1 November.

Listen to ICIMOD’s Dr Arun B. Shrestha’s 20 minute lecture on Climate Change and its Impacts on Cryosphere and Water Resources of the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region - see menu Conference/Partner Podcasts or click here.

In the run up of COP 16 in Cancún/Mexico, CLIMATE 2010 features a new video podcast in which the Parliamentary State Secretary Katherina Reiche, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in Germany, encourages the worldwide participants to seize the innovative online-climate conference for networking, discussing newest findings in climate research and for developing sustainable solutions.

Dr Norbert Roettgen, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of the Federal Republic of Germany, is the patron of the upcoming online climate conference CLIMATE 2010. Read more about the minister and his ministry's International Climate Initiative on the patronage or read the full press release.

All webpages of CLIMATE 2010 are hosted CO₂-neutral by the CLIMATE 2010 partner STRATO.

CO₂ emissions related to the use of participants´ personal computers during the online climate conference from 1-7 November 2010 will be compensated by our conference partner KlimaInvest. To guarantee a climate-neutral conference week, a wind energy park in Turkey is being financed according to the acknowleged WWF Gold Standard.

Live-Chat

CLIMATE 2010 presents the following expert live chats and Q+A sessions in the frame of the International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP). The creation of the ICCIP is a concrete step towards the goal of "climate change understanding for all", supporting the on-going efforts towards the search for solutions for the problems associated with climate change, an issue which is global in nature, but which needs to be supported by concrete regional and local efforts.

Use this unique opportunity to interact with climate change experts from all over the world. The online chats are divided into so-called expert chats and open chats. If we have an experts chat you can click the button at the end of the chat window to send in your questions which the CLIMATE 2010 team will then collect during the chats and post them to the expert round! In open chats, you can send your questions directly via submit button at the bottom of the chat window into the chat.

	Tuesday 2. Nov 2010	Wednesday 3. Nov 2010	Thursday 4. Nov 2010	Friday 5. Nov 2010	Saturday 6. Nov 2010
	CHAT 1	CHAT 3	CHAT 5	CHAT 7	CHAT 9
	facilitated by Cathy Oke, City Councellor of Melbourne - ICLEI executive member, for ICLEI	facilitated by Arun Shrestha, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)	facilitated by Mike Muller, Global Water Partnership (GWP)	facilitated by GTZ/KfW Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit	facilitated by the CLIMATE 2010 chairman, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
	"Chat: The role of local governments in transitioning to adaptive water management"	"Q+A: Climate Change and Sustainable Water Management in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region"	"Q+A: Towards water security and climate resilience in support of national development"	"Chat: Climate change and sustainable water management in MENA countries"	"Fazit der Konferenzwoche und Ausblick 2011"
	Short description Read the chatlog Questions	Short description Read the chatlog	Short description Read the chatlog	Short description Read the chatlog
Time:	10:00-11:00 (CET/UTC+1)	10:00-11:00 (CET/UTC+1)	10:00-11:00 (CET/UTC+1)	10:00-11:00 (CET/UTC+1)	10:00-11:00 (CET/UTC+1)
Language:	English	English	English	English	German
	CHAT 2	CHAT 4	CHAT 6	CHAT 8	CHAT 10
	facilitated by KfW/GTZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit	facilitated by Rebecca Wade, University of Abertay Dundee, the Interreg IVB Northsea Project SKINT	facilitated by Reinhard Marth, Comisión Nacional del Agua (CONAGUA), Centre for International Migration and Development (CIM) Dirección Local, Estado de México / John Harding, UNISDR	facilitated by Johan Kuylenstierna, Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI), for ICLEI	facilitated by the CLIMATE 2010 chairman, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
	"Q+A: Klimawandel und nachhaltiges Wassermanagement in Entwicklungspartnerländern"	"Chat: Urban and Rural Flood Risk Planning - case studies from around the world"	"Q+A: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters - the UN ISDR 2010-2011 World Disaster Reduction Campaign, with best practices in water management from Mexico"	"Chat: Local governments in the post-Kyoto process: how to move adaptation in the urban water management higher on the agenda"	"Review of the week's highlights, "Lessons learned" and outlook 2011"
	Short description Read the chatlog	Short description Read the chatlog	Short description Read the chatlog	Short description Read the chatlog
Time:	15:00-16:00 (CET/UTC+1)	12:00-13:00 (CET/UTC+1)	15:00-16:00 (CET/UTC+1)	15:00-16:00 (CET/UTC+1)	15:00-16:00 (CET/UTC+1)
Language:	German	English	English	English	English

The chat-sessions are virtual meeting rooms where moderated discussions on a given topic are held, in the same way working groups meet at normal conferences. In order to ensure the depth of the interactions and the high level of the discussions, only experts will have write access. Access to the chat sessions will be open to all registered participants of Climate 2010, who will be able to follow the discussions and will also be able to send questions to the experts.