"Africa Knowledge Platform news" Newsletter Issues

Electrifying Africa in a clean and fair way (26/04/2023)

The third issue of the African Knowledge Platform (AKP) newsletter offers a deep dive into energy matters.

Insights on energy (26/04/2023)

Latest information on African energy

Insights from other policy areas (27/04/2023)

New insight from non-energy domains

One Forest Summit in Libreville, Gabon (27/04/2023)

Cooperative advancements for the protection of rainforests and the creation of jobs related to their management

Validation workshop of the Regional Observatory of Biodiversity and Protected Areas in West Africa (OBAPAO) (27/04/2023)

Data workshop on Protected and Conserved Areas for Eastern and Southern Africa in Nairobi (27/04/2023)

ClimSA Workshop (Climate Services and related Applications Programme) (03/05/2023)

AU Summit High-Level Side-Event with AFCONE (02/05/2023)

NewSpace Africa Conference (11/05/2023)

Environment and Climate Change Week in Brussels (27/04/2023)

Nuclear Safeguards - INMM & ESARDA Joint Annual Meeting (22/05/2023)

During the joint INMM & ESARDA Annual Meeting in Vienna, a special panel is organised on the launch of the nuclear safeguards support project, funded by the European Commission, co-funded by Finland and executed by the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority of Finland (STUK) in collaboration with the African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE).

40th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference & Exhibition (EU PVSEC) (18/09/2023)

EU PVSEC gathers the global PV community to present and discuss the latest developments in Photovoltaic research, technologies and applications, to foster networking and to conduct business.

8th Raw Materials Week (13/11/2023)

This event gathers a wide range of stakeholders to discuss policies and initiatives in the field of raw materials.

JRC Raw Materials Information System (RMIS) Workshop with HaDEA (30/11/2023)

This workshop aims to strengthen dialogue between the JRC RMIS team and EU-funded projects on raw materials, with a view to facilitate the integration of the most important knowledge outputs from these projects into the RMIS. EU-funded projects are managed by the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) of the European Commission.

Supporting biodiversity policy through the Africa Knowledge Platform (05/12/2022)

How the Africa Knowledge Platform supports multidisciplinary biodiversity policy

IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress (05/12/2022)

Meeting the who's-who of African protected areas

African Association of Remote Sensing and the Environment (05/12/2022)

Space and geospatial technologies for the Africa we want

Group on Earth Observations - GEO Week (05/12/2022)

Global action for local impact

European Business and Nature Summit (05/12/2022)

Changing the way we measure business success

Ecological Connectivity - Insights for post-2020 indicators (05/12/2022)

Measuring ecological connectivity

The latest biodiversity information (05/12/2022)

The latest biodiversity information on the Africa Knowledge Platform

The Commission's science footprint in Africa (05/12/2022)

The European Commission has a long scientific history with Africa, so the AKP team produced a Science for Policy Report tracking the production, collaboration, and thematic focus of this history.

Protecting evolutionary potential (05/12/2022)

A new pre-print from the JRC describes the opportunities created by considering genetic and phylogenetic diversity in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.

Water for clean energy (05/12/2022)

New multidisciplinary research from the JRC shows how a shift to low-carbon energy systems in Africa will affect water withdrawals and water consumption by 2065.

Scientific storytelling (05/12/2022)

A feature of the AKP is its deep-dive narratives. A new paper describes the rationale behind these narratives and how they complement the JRC’s work on raw materials in Africa

UN Biodiversity Conference (07/12/2022)

COP15 to the Convention on Biological Diversity (including side-events on the proposed Global Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity on 07 December and the Science-Policy Forum for Biodiversity on 11-12 December)

31st International Congress on Conservation Biology (Call for contributions) (05/12/2022)

Call for proposals for Symposia, Workshops, Roundtable Discussion and Training Courses is now open for the meeting scheduled for 23-27 July 2023.

Biodiversity and Earth Observation (20/02/2023)

A biodiversity deep-dive assessment report will be published from the Stakeholder Workshop held on Biodiversity and Earth Observation during November 2022 (including a case study on the use of Earth Observation in Zambia)

2nd International Conference on Biodiversity in the Congo Basin (06/03/2023)

The conference addresses issues related to preserving the natural environment of the Congo Basin, linked to biodiversity, health, climate and resilient social ecological systems. Links to the post-2020 global biodiversity framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity and to the Sustainable Development Goals will be emphasised.

KCEO Stakeholder Workshop on Biodiversity and Earth Observation (05/12/2022)

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A New Platform Dedicated to Knowledge on Africa (17/08/2022)

Welcome to the first issue of the Africa Knowledge Platform Newsletter

European Development Days (17/08/2022)

The Africa Knowledge Platform team went to Brussels to show off the platform's powerful features.

Great Green Wall (17/08/2022)

The African Union established the Great Green Wall Initiative to combat desertification, land degradation and climate change. This initiative spans 8,000 km along the southern edge of the Saharan Desert, from Senegal to Djibouti, and aims to create 10 million jobs by restoring 100 million hectares of degraded land and capturing 250 tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2030. Four new datasets were added to the Africa Knowledge Platform to support the Great Green Wall Initiative.

No New Deal on Drought (18/08/2022)

Some participants at COP 15 of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification called for a legally-binding deal on drought, but settled on establishing a new Intergovernmental Working Group on Drought.

Energy for the Exiled (18/08/2022)

New research from the JRC shows how investment in renewable energy could meet electricity demands for almost 300 refugee settlements in sub-Saharan Africa while contributing to climate ambitions.

Connecting a Continent (18/08/2022)

A new report describes how the Joint Research Centre, in collaboration with European and African partners, prioritised 11 development corridors for strategic future investment.

Hazards to Heritage (18/08/2022)

New research from the JRC shows that under the worst-case emissions scenario, as much as 80% of Africa's coastal heritage sites could be exposed to sea-level rise by 2050.