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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...

6.1 Increase awareness of the concept of ABS in the context of the CBD and Nagoya Protocol, and...

It is important to make users and providers of genetic resources aware of the CBD and related ABS provisions (including the Nagoya Protocol), as well as "best practices" to ensure compliance and benefit sharing. As the ABS provisions of the CBD and...

6.2 Ensure the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and...

Belgium signed the Nagoya Protocol on 20 September 2011. On 27 October 2011, the Interministerial Conference for the Environment confirmed that "accelerated ratification of the ABS Protocol is a priority for Belgium".  In our country, the Nagoya...

6.3 By 2030, create operational mechanisms to protect the knowledge, innovations and practices of...

Indigenous and Local Communities (ILCs) are closely associated with biodiversity and contribute to its protection. The traditional knowledge possessed by indigenous and local communities about the potential uses of the biodiversity that surrounds...

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Citizens are encouraged to be nosy about air quality

CurieuzeNeuzen is a Flemish wordplay that is difficult to translate but refers to someone who is curious to learn. It is the largest ever citizen science project to monitor air quality throughout the ...

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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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