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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 14: Ensure full, fair, inclusive and effective representation and participation of diverse...

Enabling diverse communities (women, local communities, youth, etc.) to participate fully, equally and inclusively in biodiversity conservation is essential to meet global environmental challenges. This objective is in line with United Nations...

14.1 Ensure gender equality through a gender-sensitive approach so that all women and girls have...

The gender-sensitive approach includes developing and implementing gender-sensitive policies at the national level and ensuring that they are respected in the context of biodiversity conservation. It also includes supporting women's leadership and...

14.2 Ensure the participation of young people in biodiversity conservation decisions and ensure...

The collapse of biodiversity has dire consequences for many human rights recognised by the United Nations, as these rights are considered "inviolable", meaning that future generations can claim them as much as those of today. It is therefore...

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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