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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 ...

 
2025 Jun 19

Belgium

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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...

 
2025 May 06

Belgium

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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...

 
2025 May 06

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10.3 Ensure full compliance and enforcement of the environmental liability regime (i.e. Directive...

The aim of environmental liability is to make the person or organisation responsible for environmental damage (the polluter) pay to repair the damage caused (the polluter pays principle). The European Parliament and Council Directive of 21 April 2004...

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Target 11: Ensure coherent implementation of biodiversity-related commitments and agreements, and...

There are six conventions on biodiversity at global level: the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory...

15. Life on Land

11.1 Ensure coherent implementation of biodiversity agreements to which Belgium is a Party and avoid...

The decisions of biodiversity-related conventions need to be implemented in a coherent and harmonised manner. To achieve this, Belgium first needs an overview of all decisions related to horizontal issues under the biodiversity conventions (such as...

15. Life on Land

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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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