March 21, 2019
The World Climate Research Program (WCRP) is organizing a Institute of Advanced Studies in Climate Extremes and Risk Management in Nanjing, China, from 21 October to 1 November 2019. The Institute of Advanced Studies aims at promoting active knowledge exchanges and…
March 19, 2019
In December 2018, START team members traveled to the TEA-START and SEA-START Regional Centers to explore how the Secretariat can effectively engage these centers to advance START’s mission in the region. The discussions generated a set of priority actions for…
March 18, 2019
The 1st Great Lakes and Catchment Management (1st GLACAM) Conference will take place from 5 to 7 June 2019 at the Water Resource Institute, Entebbe, Uganda. The conference, organized by Makerere University College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Water and…
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March 13, 2019
The African Climate Risks Conference (ACRC2019) will take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 7 to 9 October 2019. It is an open platform for sharing latest climate research on African climate among researchers, and with policy makers, practitioners and…
March 11, 2019
Des experts provenant du Sénégal et du Burkina Faso se réuniront à Dakar du 12 au 14 mars 2019 pour entamer une évaluation autour des systèmes d’énergie renouvelable à petite échelle, et de leur contribution à des transitions énergétiques plus…
March 11, 2019
Experts from Senegal and Burkina Faso will meet in Dakar from 12 to 14 March 2019 to initiate an assessment of the role of small-scale renewable energy systems in contributing to broader energy transitions in West Africa. The assessment constitutes…
March 07, 2019
From 12 to 15 February 2019 partners from the Future Resilience for African Cities and Land (FRACTAL) program met in Cape Town to discuss the progress made and the next steps as the project comes to an end. During the…
March 01, 2019
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has launched a call for applications for the 5th round of scholarship awards. The IPCC will accept applications from PhD students that have been enrolled for at least a year or are undertaking…
February 28, 2019
Transformations 2019 will take place in Santiago de Chile from 16 to 18 October 2019. It aims to provide a platform for reciprocal learning between less and more developed contexts, and between researchers and practitioners, in order to enhance both…
February 28, 2019
The LICCI (Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts) project is a European Research Council (ERC) funded project aiming to improve our understandings of how climate change affects physical, biological, and socioeconomic systems. The project will document and analyse local indicators…