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Climate change researchers from across Africa are meeting in Cape Town this week for the first African Climate Change Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Only a quarter of all Wikipedia edits of Sub-Saharan African pages originate from Sub-Saharan African editors, as Carl Wesselink from SouthSouthNorth…

The Centre for Environmental Policy wishes to appoint a Research Fellow as a Senior Scientist within the Technical Support Unit (TSU) of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). WG III is concerned with the mitigation…

Since its establishment in 1995, the TEA-START research team has grown rapidly and has attained numerous research achievements on many aspects of global climate and environmental change. In the past five years, the regional center led seven key projects of…

The Digital Belt and Road (DBAR) regional consultation and networking workshop for South East Asia was held at the United Nation Conference Center (UNCC) in Bangkok, Thailand from February 25-26, 2019. The workshop was co-organized by the DBAR office, the…

The Nordic Climate Facility (NCF) launched a call for proposals for financing innovative climate change projects in developing countries (full list available here). This year’s theme is: Testing the viability of innovative climate solutions. At least one of the project partners…

Over the course of the Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) program, a series of grants have supported transdisciplinary research and cross-city learning, bringing together teams consisting of representatives from African academic institutions, government organizations and others. These…

We are pleased to announce that the second issue of START’s ProSus Magazine is now available.  This issue focuses on climate change adaptation and features research and stories from the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) program. From 2014 to 2018,…

The Temperate East Asia Regional Center (TEA-START) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow. Duties: The main task is to project future changes in extreme precipitation in Eurasia and North Africa after bias-correction of the newest generation of…

A seasoned researcher in climate change adaptation, Dr. Chipo Mubaya doesn’t hesitate to give credit to the African Climate Change Fellowship (ACCFP) Program for the trajectory that her career has taken. “It all started with the ACCFP fellowship – it…