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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 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...

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...

11.2 All climate change, biodiversity and desertification cooperation projects funded by Belgium...

The three Rio conventions address a number of common substantive and procedural issues. An example is, measures to reduce the negative impacts of deforestation which are relevant to the implementation of all three conventions. Each of these...

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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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