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Climate change - Events[Updated: July 20, 2010] This is a new section of the DDRN website where you can find information on events concerning climate change - one of the current focal themes of DDRN. The events are listed chronologically, but please note that new events posted since the latest monthly DDRN newsletter are posted at the top of this page. Call for papers: Gender, Sustainability & Climate Change The Gender, Sustainability and Climate Change symposia aims at problematizing current positions and in developing knowledge about the gendered processes and motivations regarding societal climate change adaptation and mitigation, with a special focus on first world settings. The session aims at scholars as well as a practitioners and policy makers. Date: November 25-26, 2010 Carbon Footprints, Trade and Development Carbon footprint labels and border measures are at the centre of current debates cutting across climate change, trade and development policies. This seminar brings together three contributions to this debate that focus on: (1) proposals aiming at taxing carbon emissions at the border with the aim of leveling the playing field between countries with different carbon emission limits; (2) plans to use product carbon footprint (PCF) labels to encourage climate-friendly consumption; (3) emerging carbon footprint standards and their possible trade impacts. Date: August 11, 2010 The 2nd International Conference on Climate, Sustainability and Development in Semi-arid Regions (ICID 2010) will convene concerned parties from around the world to identify and focus action on challenges and opportunities concerning the semi-arid regions such as environmental and climate variability and change, vulnerabilities, social-economic-environmental impacts, responses of adaptation and sustainable development. Date: August 16-20, 2010 The Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy will take place at Yale University in the margins of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal Summit held in New York on 20-22 September. The event will take stock of and examine the role of institutional structures and decision-making procedures in fostering (or impeding) low carbon and climate resilient development. Date: September 17 - 19, 2010 Call for papers: ICCAFFE 2011 - Climate change, agri-food, fisheries and ecosystems The ICCAFFE 2011 conference hosted by the North-South Research Center for Social Sciences (NRCS) will focus on issues related to climate change, agriculture, food security and ecosystems from an interdisciplinary approach and a developing country perspective. It intends to bring together scientists, policy-makers, practitioners, and non-state actors from different regions to share updated research outcomes and relevant experiences and set future research and policy agendas. A call has been issued for presentations, posters and papers relating to conference themes. Date: May 20-22, 2011 Climate Change and Impact Assessment - IAIA Special Symposium The IAIA Special Symposium is a two-day symposium bringing together international experts and practitioners in impact assessment and climate change where the latest studies and work linking impact assessment and climate change will be reviewed. Furthermore it will be explored how collaborative work among experts in climate change and IA professionals can be advanced. Date: October 25-26, 2010 International Greening Education Event The 3 day event is an occasion for various stakeholders to get together and discuss issues that are vital for successfully positioning of education and training institutions as the centers of knowledge creation that cater to the needs of society, economy as well as the environment. Date: October 27-28, 2010 Call for Papers: Climate Change: Spatial Concerns and Mitigation Strategies For exchanging innovative ideas and research for mitigating imbalances to maintain climatic equilibrium, and suggesting development approaches, this seminar, inter-alia, will provide a common platform to scholars from such varied disciplines as Geography, Geology, Meteorology, Earth Sciences, Environmental Studies, Human Settlement Planning and Development, Forestry, Soil Sciences, Hydrology, Remote Sensing-GIS to name a few. Date: December 16-18, 2010 This worldwide scientific online climate conference takes place for the third time, focusing on "Climate Change and the Sustainable Management of Water Resources". CLIMATE 2010 is being organized in cooperation with UNEP, UNESCO, WMO, IPCC, FAO and other world bodies. Date: November 1-7, 2010 Poverty, Environment and Climate Change The CLACSO-CROP Programme on Studies of Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, with the Centre for Psychological and Sociological Research, and the Antonio Núñez Jimenez Foundation for Nature and Man, is organizing an international workshop on Poverty, Environment and Climate Change. Dates: November 10-13, 2010 Environmental change and sustainable energy (MILEN) is a new interfaculty research area at the University of Oslo. Date: November 25-26, 2010 The University of Hohenheim will be hosting the 117th European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) seminar in November 2010 and has in relation hereto launched a call for papers and poster papers on climate change, agriculture and vulnerability and resilience of food systems. Date: November 25-27, 2010 Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010 Meeting organised by Alliance of the CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) Centers, Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Date: December 4, 2010 |
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Call for proposals for New DDRN Development Science Shop!Call launched for Danish NGOs, grassroots organisations and consultancy firms to send in proposals for study topics for students at Danish universities with an interest in international development. First deadline: Call 3/2010 for member led activitiesCall 3/2010 launched with application deadline on: |
