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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...

12.3 Ensure that programmes and projects funded in development cooperation partner countries are pre...

In line with Article 11, §2 of the Development Cooperation Act, Belgian Development Cooperation integrates the protection of the environment and natural resources, including the fight against climate change, drought and global deforestation in all...

12.4 International coordination and effective exchange of information between ex situ conservation...

Gene banks, zoos, nurseries, botanical gardens, aquaria, etc. contribute to ex situ conservation of wild plant and animal species of foreign origin by ensuring long-term conservation of species outside their natural habitat ( ex situ ). For...

Target 13: Ensure active and effective involvement in biodiversity-related conventions and forums at...

Biodiversity conservation is a common task that cannot be tackled by one country alone. In the international and European forums in which Belgium is represented, it will continue to actively emphasise the vital role of biodiversity for all policies...

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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