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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...

4f.2 Ensure that the links between biodiversity and health are widely recognised, valued and...

Biodiversity and human health, and corresponding policies and activities, are linked in a number of ways. First, human health depends on the products and services provided by ecosystems [1] . Ecosystems are essential for good human health and...

4.f3 Promote best practices on biodiversity in the construction sector

With the continued expansion of urban areas and the associated risks to natural ecosystems, this objective seeks to strike a balance between urban development and biodiversity conservation. This operational objective is linked to operational...

4bis: Reduce the ecological footprint of Belgian consumption on global biodiversity

The ecological footprint* is a way of measuring the pressure we put on resources and ecosystems. It measures the area of land and water needed by a human population to produce the resources it consumes and absorb its waste under current technological...

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Swapping paving for plants - the City of Antwerp regreens through public participation

A common problem in the urban landscape is that of hard, impervious surfaces such as pavements, concrete buildings or asphalt roads, preventing the infiltration of rainwater into the soil. This has th...

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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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