Alex Rose-Innes
The United Nation’s (UN) Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA) and the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) will be discussing ideas to fast-track the role of science and governmental policies in addressing climate change on the African continent. During virtual outreaches, the implication for Africa would be put under the spotlight.
The AAS will engage with key African stakeholders as part of its Innovation Priority Setting programme (ASP) with the primary goal to identify the most pressing environmental issues on the continent. Certain climate research originating from Africa would also be discussed.
With the focus on Africa, the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) most recent findings on global warming, climate change and land would be highlighted. The effects of a changing climate on the ocean and cryosphere* (see below), with relevant information regarding the upcoming sixth IPCC Assessment Report, will be shared with the panel.
The virtual events will take place on 26 May (in French) and 27 May (in English). For registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y-F7vmK-RYm2TrSWZ_QfwQ. Previous IPCC reports can also be viewed on this link.
*The cryosphere is an all-encompassing term for those portions of Earth’s surface where water is in solid form, such as sea-, lake- and river ice, snow cover, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets and frozen ground.
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The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) is a non-aligned, non-political, not-for-profit pan-African organisation. Its vision is to, through science, transform lives on the continent. It recognises excellence through prestigious fellowship and award schemes and also provides advisory functions for shaping Africa’s Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) strategies and policies. The NGO assists with implementing key STI programmes addressing Africa’s developmental challenges via a funding and programme management platform – the Alliance for accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA), an initiative of the African Union Development of the AAS.
