NATUR EXPO BRNO
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Fair for Sustainable Living in the Landscape

Conference on Climate Change – Threat or Opportunity for our Landscape
On Thursday
May 11, 2017, as part of the accompanying programme for NATUR EXPO BRNO the
conference Climate Change – Threat of Opportunity for our Landscape will be
taking place. The conference is being held by the Global Change Research
Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Mendel
University in Brno and the State
Land Office. The conference participants are top scientists concerned with the
development of the climate and especially its impact on agriculture, as well as
senior politicians and representatives from academia, and those invited will
also include leaders from municipalities. Topics covered will include basic
information on the impact of climate change and possible adaptations, and that
primarily to one of the biggest threats from the changing climate, which is
drought. The new information portals www.klimatickazmena.cz and www.intersucho.cz will be introduced. The conclusions of the General Water
Management Plan for the Landscape of the Czech Republic and the results of the Balance of Water Resources for
Agricultural Irrigation will be presented.