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Remote Sensing for Urban and Rural Development & Resilience (ReSiDeR) in South Africa (VLIRUOS Community Talks)

📅 Wednesday 26 February 2025 11h00 – 12h00 (CET) Register here What is this Community Talks about? Climate change is hitting both rural 🌾 and urban 🏙️ environments hard. ⚠️Cape Town’s water crisis ...

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Modelling Infectious Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: Current trends and policies implications (VLIRUOS Community talks XL)

What is this Community Talks about? The COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 highlighted the critical need for preparedness in responding to future pandemics. Effective disease control relies on the swift and a...

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Multidisciplinary Workshop Water, a Critical Resource

Brussels, Monday 1 December 2025 First Announcement and Call for Contributions Venue: Palais des Académies – Paleis der Academiën Rue Ducale 1 – Hertogsstraat 1 1000 Brussels AIM OF THE THEME DAY Th...

Target 8: Improve and communicate scientific knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem services

For effective conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, all its components at all organisational levels, i.e. from genes to ecosystems, must be correctly identified and monitored spatially and temporally. Adequate knowledge of the status and...

8.1 Ensure that the best available data, information and knowledge on biodiversity are accessible to...

The dissemination of scientific data and information on biodiversity should not only target the scientific community, but should reach the widest possible audience in the appropriate language, including policy makers, teachers, young people and the...

8.2 Promote and encourage research that contributes to the knowledge and understanding of Belgian...

The comprehensive and effective implementation of many of the actions identified in the NBS requires a significant improvement in the knowledge and understanding of biodiversity and ecosystem services provided in Belgium. Currently, methodologies are...

Panorama Solutions

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Hydrological restoration in drained fen peatlands

Peatlands are often drained by ditches and creeks in function of agriculture, resulting in ecosystem degradation, huge CO2-emissions and biodiversity loss. To restore these rare and important ecosyste...

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Biodiversity Learning Platform

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, and entered into force on 29 December 1993. It is the first global agreement to cover al...

 
 
 

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