Adaptation of Lakes and Mitigation for Lakes against
the Threat of Global Warming

Friday 22 August
Afternoon Seminar

Convenors : International Lake Environment Committee (ILEC) and Shiga University, Japan

Lakes, reservoirs and wetlands are the source of water that is indispensable for the life of numerous living species in water, land and air. They are also the most vulnerable and sensitive places to climate change and global warming. They may face an expansion or shrinking of the water body coupled with ecosystem changes that make coastal peoples adaptation efforts increasingly challenging. This seminar will focus on both sides of climate change discussion: adaptation and mitigation. Specifically, it will discuss what kinds of adaptation efforts are necessary to the people who highly depend upon the water bodies for their livelihoods as well as what types of mitigation measures could be possible for the people in the basin. The discussion will key in on major global lakes, including Chinese lakes, where eutrophication and contamination are serious problems coupled with possible impact of global warming in the future.