Delta Alliance Results during the Conference Deltas in Times of Climate Change

An overview with Delta Alliance presentations during the Conference Deltas in Times of Climate Change on Thursday 30 September 2010. The Plenary session: Launch of the Delta Alliance

  • Opening by Tracy Metz, Editor at NRC Handelsblad and former member of the Delta Commission opened this session (video at 1"40')
  • Towards international cooporation in adaptation to climate change by Tineke Huizinga, Dutch Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, the Netherlands (speech and video 1 at 3"50' and video)
  • Delta Alliance: the creation of a global knowledge network by Kees Slingerland, Chairman of the Delta Alliance, the Netherlands (video at 5"27', video part 2 and back ground presentation on video)
  • New inspiration for adapting deltas to climate change: presenting the winners of the DeltaCompetition 2010 by Prof.dr. Cees Veerman, former Chair of the Delta Commission, the Netherlands (video at 9"15' and video)
  • A shared mission: cooperating for resilient deltas worldwide. Interactive session with high-level representatives a.o. Fauzi Bowo (Governor Jakarta, Indonesia), dr. Nguyen Thai Lai (Vice Minister, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment), Vietnam, dr. Wenwei Ren (WWF China), (video part 1 at 6 minutes, video part 2, video part 3, video part 4 and video part 5)
  • Signing the Delta Alliance Declaration by representatives from Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, the Netherlands, USA, Vietnam and members of the audience (video part 1 at 9 minutes and video part 2
Delta Alliance International Secretariat
Monday 18 October 2010
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