“Solar Radiation Management: Foresight for Governance (SRM4G)” is a 3-workshop project running over the course of 2015 that will use foresight methods to construct scenarios that investigate varying contexts and contingencies surrounding “Global Responses to Climate Change in 2030”.
Climate change poses fundamental questions about current practices in the use of water and energy resources. Decarbonizing the energy system must go hand in hand with measures to increase water and energy security for a growing population.
Pedro Sanchez, Director, Agriculture and Food Security Center, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, will be visiting the IASS Potsdam. The Title of his seminar is “Tropical soil science for food security in Africa and Cuba”.
In the last years, the growing energy demand combined with the need to access and deploy renewable energy sources has led to many scenarios to modernise and/or expand the European electric grid in order to accommodate these new challenges.
The Convention for Cooperation in the Protection, Management and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Atlantic Coast of the West, Central and Southern Africa Region (Abidjan Convention) decided at the eleventh meeting of its Conference of the Parties (COP) (Cape Town, South Af
This year sees the start of a new development and sustainability agenda. The United Nations post-2015 agenda sets new global goals that apply to all states equally, be they rich or poor, developing or industrialised, in the South or in the North.