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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 15: Significantly and gradually increase mobilisation of financial resources from all sources...

Belgium is committed at international and European level to implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity. This includes financial support, both to adequately fund our own national efforts and to support developing countries in implementing the...

15.1 Improve the effectiveness, efficiency and transparency of the delivery and use of funds

Significant amounts of Belgian public funding for biodiversity will be needed to meet the 2030 political ambition. The first step is to estimate the funding gap for biodiversity, i.e. the difference between the funding needs to meet the 2030...

15.2 Significantly and gradually increase the mobilisation of national resources, facilitated by the...

Increasing overall national resources is an important part of the solution to close the biodiversity funding gap. Biodiversity authorities will need a new budget. Federal and regional authorities remain responsible for these issues and have the...

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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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