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Climate-KIC is organizing a ‘Climathon’: Climathon brings together the challenges of the world’s cities with the people who have the passion and ability to solve them. The Challenge City sets up local climate change challenge reflecting their local urban challenges in areas including: Urban Planning, Infrastructure, Housing, Water Use, Waste Removal, City Satellite Data and more Participants come with their ideas & develop them during...
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The European Commission has awarded grants to 28 new environment, climate action and circular economy projects as part of its Horizon 2020 programme. The new projects receive an EU contribution of about €119.4 million for research and innovation on circular economy, climate services, nature-based solutions or raw materials. All in all, more than 345 organisations from 44 different countries, including 27 EU Member States, will...
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Video, summary, and presentations. The Webinar took place on Friday 28 October 2016. It consisted of two talks: “Communicating uncertainty in climate information: insights from the behavioural sciences", by Andrea Taylor, University of Leeds (UK) “Event attribution: from research to climate service”, by Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Royal National Meteorological Institute - KNMI (The Netherlands)
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The European Climate Observations, Modelling and Services (ECOMS) Conference will be hosted by the Met Office. It will welcome 200 invited participants as well as speakers and panellists representing leading research institutions and international organisations including the European Commission, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). The European Commission established the ECOMS activity to ensure close coordination and cooperation across...
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The Climate and Health Assessment connects the dots between climate change and its consequences for American public health more clearly than ever before. The new report (which is the product of three years of research by 13 federal agencies) emphasizes that climate change will continue to exacerbate existing threats to health as well as give rise to new ones. But like many scientific reports, it...
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While private sector development and job creation are not new aspects of development policy, there is growing recognition that global development challenges are multi-faceted and complex, requiring collaborative, multi-stakeholder alliances between all sectors of society. This has been bolstered by pressure on public budgets for development cooperation and the need to complement these with private resources to finance the future development agenda. This study looks...
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In a recent article published in Nature, a team of experts urge researchers to gear their studies, and the way they present their results, to the needs of policymakers. With the ink just dry on the Paris climate agreement, policymakers want to know how they can act most effectively. Ambition is high: the long-term goal is to keep the average warming of the planet to well below...
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The seminar is part of ECMWF’s educational programme and is aimed at young scientists but also more established scientists that want to engage more with the challenges of Earth system modelling for seamless prediction. The deadline for registration is 4 August 2016. More info: http://www.ecmwf.int/en/learning/workshops-and-seminars/en/annual-seminar-2016
The deadline for submission of the pre-proposals for the Topic A of the ERA4CS has been extended until 30 June 2016
On Tuesday 10 May, at the occasion of the international Adaptation Futures 2016 Conference in Rotterdam, took place the official “go” to submit proposals for the joint call of ERA4CS.
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