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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...

Objective 2: study, monitor and address key direct drivers of biodiversity loss

The main processes that threaten biodiversity or have significant negative impacts on biodiversity are identified in Section I.4. It is imperative to study and monitor these processes, as well as to take appropriate measures to mitigate and/or stop...

2.1 Prevent land and sea use changes from having a negative impact on biodiversity, in particular by...

Our need for space, whether to produce food, work, generate energy, move around or live, competes with land and/or sea as a resource. This competing demand for land and marine resources has led to significant changes in natural habitats and...

2.2. End all overexploitation, illegal, unsustainable or unsafe acquisition of or trade in wild...

The use of wild species directly contributes to the daily well-being of billions of people, and around 50,000 wild species worldwide are used for food, energy, medicine, materials and other purposes through fishing, gathering, logging and harvesting...

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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