13 Dec

ACEWATER2 Annual Meeting

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Annual meeting of the AUC-NEPAD African Centres of Excellence on Water Science and Technology

03 Oct

Curso regional “Fortalecimiento de organismos de cuenca y gobernanza del agua en América Latina”

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La Cátedra UNESCO, conjuntamente con la CODIA (Conferencia de Directores Iberoamericanos del Agua) y otras instituciones, orga
01 Jun

Making sense of the situation in Cape Town

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Cape Town has come dangerously close to running out of water after 3 years of persistent drought.

 

Tight water usage restrictions have been successful in stalling 'day zero' - when the city's taps will be turned off - until 2019, buying time for authorities to look for more ways to manage the crisis.

The JRC, with data from its Global Drought Observatory (GDO), provides analytical reports on the crisis as it develops.

03 May

European Development Days 2018

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Ensuring Women Participation and Empowerment for Water and Development

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12 Dec

Secretary-General’s remarks at the One Planet Summit

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THE SECRETARY-GENERAL
REMARKS AT ONE PLANET SUMMIT Paris, 12 December 2017
[as delivered]
President Macron, Excellencies, World Bank President Jim Kim, Ladies and gentlemen,
We are not yet winning the war on climate change — the defining challenge of our times.
The Paris Agreement lays the basis for ambitious action.
But we know that current commitments will not get us there.
Every day, in every region, the front pages are dominated by weather-related disasters – storms, floods, droughts, fires.

23 Nov

NEW: Science for the AU-EU partnership: Building knowledge for sustainable development

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People, planet, prosperity and peace are four priorities shared by Africa and Europe, and areas where opportunities for beneficial cooperation abound. Over the past three decades, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has worked with many organisations and institutions across Africa. This report and its accompanying interactive online service, 'Africa StoryMaps', present the key findings from this collaboration, and set out options the decision-making, research, and education communities may consider.

09 Oct

Proceedings of the ACEWATER2 Scientific Workshop 2016

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Proceedings of the ACEWATER2 Scientific Workshop Accra (Ghana) 31 Oct – 3 Nov 2016

 

30 Aug

BASAL - Scientific Component Final Meeting

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The specific objectives of this component of the BASAL project (implemented by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) together with the Cuban Institutions partners), in consistency with the above overall objectives of the project, are:

30 Aug

ACEWATER2 Regional Meeting

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This project, requested by the African Ministers of Water to DG Devco, intends to scale up the approach of the phase I of the project (pilot project) and to address the lack of sustainability in capacity building in the water sector in Africa.

The main activities of the project will consist in:

• Strengthening of two existing NEPAD water Centres of Excellence networks in West and Southern Africa;

• Creation of two NEPAD water Centres of Excellence network in Central and Eastern Africa;

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