Visit from the World Bank
An Advisor of Agriculture and Rural Development at the World Bank, Dr Erick Fernandes, together with Professor Kevin Anderson, paid UNU-LRT a visit on 3 March. Both of them have been involved in work and research on climate change. Dr Fernandes has been working with the World Bank for 18 years and is currently developing and operationalizing a multi-sector framework and quantitative modelling approach to enhance landscape-level resilience to climate change. It includes crops, forestry, pasture, aquatic & hydropower issues, biodiversity, and infrastructure, at nested geospatial scales e.g. field-watershed-basins. Dr Anderson is a Professor of Energy & Climate Change at the University of Manchester as well as the Deputy Director of Tyndall Centre – for Climate Change Research (http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/).
Dr Fernandes and Professor Anderson were welcomed by the UNU-LRT Director and were introduced to the activities of the UNU Land Restoration Training Programme. They also met scientists at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Agricultural University of Iceland (AUI) who informed them about the research activities within the field of climate change and land degradation/land restoration at AUI.