UNFCCC side event at COP 17: Updates from climate change science - Special focus Africa
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2 December 2011, Durban, South Africa
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Presentations
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UNFCCC secretariat (by Ms. Rocio Lichte)
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Opening
remarks (138 kB)
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Dr. Richard Jones, Manager Regional Predictions, Met Office Hadley Center, UK
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Climate
variability and forecasting, and downscaling climate projections in Africa (1501 kB)
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Prof. Mary Scholes, School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa. In collaboration with the IGAC (Debits) programmes of the IGBP as well as ABC
Africa.
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Impacts of
acidific deposition in Tropical Africa on ecosystem function (3030 kB)
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Dr. Saidu O. Oseni, Acting Head, Department of Animal Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria and
START's African Climate Change Fellowship Programme (ACCFP) Post-Doctoral Fellow, Egerton University,
Kenya
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Adaptation to extreme climate variability in pastoral systems in arid Kenya
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Mrs. Mzime Ndebele-Murisa, Doctoral Research Fellow under the African Climate Change Fellowship Programme
(ACCFP), Zimbabwe
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Modelling
fish production in Lake Kariba to assess impacts of climate change: A case study on the vulnerability
of fish stocks (1116 kB)
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Scientists and experts from international and regional research programmes and organizations presented latest
information from climate change research, especially from Africa.
Chair: Mr. Carlos Fuller, Belize
Agenda (119 kB)
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