About AMAZALERT
AMAZALERT examined how global and regional climate and land-use changes will impact Amazonian forests, agriculture, waters, and people; and how these impacts feed back onto climate.
“The AMAZALERT project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 282664, and was co-funded by many national agencies an institutes.”
Joint final meeting AMAZALERT and ROBIN:
'Impacts of climate and land-use on rainforest biomass and their services in Latin America'
(6 - 10 October 2014)
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AMAZALERT had its final project meeting in Brazil in October 2014. This meeting was jointly organised with the ‘sister’-project ROBIN (www.robinproject.info, which studies the link between biodiversity and climate change mitigation for South-America. The meeting was organised by INPE and EMBRAPA and took place on 6 - 10 October, 2014. Project members were invited personally. |
Global programme outline:
- a meeting for stakeholders and policy makers (6 October, Belem, PA, Brazil), where combined insights and products of both projects were discussed
- Joint Science meeting: presentation and discussion of key project results and progress; the wider science context (7 October, Alter-do-Chao, Santarem, PA, Brazil)
- Joint excursion to local communities and the Tapajos national forest reserve: research sites on 8 October
- project internal workshops (9-10 October, Alter-do-Chao, Santarem, PA, Brazil)
Results:
- Short report on Day 1
- Short Report on Day 2
- Report on the field trip, Day 3
- Short Report on Day 4
- Posters
- Pictures (Picasaweb album)
- Videos
- Media attention
For more details visit this site for the stakeholders and project programme, excursion, location, pictures, videos and reports.