UNFCCC secretariat (by Ms. Rocio Lichte)

Opening remarks (138 kB)

Dr. Richard Jones, Manager Regional Predictions, Met Office Hadley Center, UK 

Climate variability and forecasting, and downscaling climate projections in Africa (1501 kB)  

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.

Impacts of acidific deposition in Tropical Africa on ecosystem function (3030 kB)  

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 

Adaptation to extreme climate variability in pastoral systems in arid Kenya 

Mrs. Mzime Ndebele-Murisa, Doctoral Research Fellow under the African Climate Change Fellowship Programme (ACCFP), Zimbabwe

Modelling fish production in Lake Kariba to assess impacts of climate change: A case study on the vulnerability of fish stocks  (1116 kB)