01 Jun

Making sense of the situation in Cape Town

By andrea.iervolino 0 Comments

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

PROJET WEFE-SENEGAL

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12 Dec

Secretary-General’s remarks at the One Planet Summit

By andrea.iervolino 0 Comments

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

By Celine Dondeynaz 0 Comments

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

By Paolo Ronco 0 Comments

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;

09 Jun

European Development days

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Murray Biedler, Water Division, UNESCO & Paolo Ronco, Joint Research Center, EU Commission & Mila Palamar, ONE Ambassador at European Development Days, 

31 May

European Development Days 2017

By Paolo Ronco 0 Comments

Europe’s leading forum on development since 2006, Organized by the European Commission, the European Development Days (EDD) bring the development community together each year to share ideas and experiences in ways that inspire new partnerships and innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.

https://www.eudevdays.eu/about-EDD

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