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For the latest news on ACC2013, please navigate to africaclimateconference.org

 

Registration remains open until 05 October 2013. Click here to register.

 

The call for abstracts for both poster and oral presentations is now closed, but registration is still open. Participants who will be selected to make an oral presentation in the Parallel Sessions will be notified by Monday 16 September.

 

Overview

 

Africa is the continent most vulnerable to current climate variability and extremes and the one most likely to suffer adverse effects of climate change. Adaptation policies and actions will be most effective if based on the best possible knowledge concerning current and future climate. To achieve this, we must fill the large gaps in our understanding of African climate through scientific research, and ensure that climate research outputs are communicated in a form that is useful and accessible to decision makers. 

 

The Africa Climate Conference 2013, which is organized under the auspices of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the African Climate Policy Center (ACPC), will bring together decision-makers and climate researchers, scientists and practitioners from Africa and around the world, to jointly: 1) identify the state of knowledge on the African climate system, recognizing current gaps in climate knowledge; 2) define and drive an African agenda for future climate research that will inform adaptation decisions out to the mid- to end 21st Century.; 3) develop a framework for mainstreaming climate information into decision making, as well as a network of experts who evaluate and interpret this knowledge for practical applications in areas such as agriculture ad food production, water resources management, climate risk management and adaptation planning, etc.  The expected outcome from the Conference is a set of concrete research proposals to address the critical gaps in our knowledge of the African climate system, led by regional and national institutions and experts, to provide science-based climate knowledge that will inform decision-making out to the mid- to end 21st Century in Africa in the many sectors affected by climate variability and change.

 

For further information on the ACC-2013, please email acc2013@climdev-africa.org.

• The Africa Climate Conference 2013 (ACC2013), which will be held in Arusha, Tanzania, from 15 – 18 October 2013 will highlight Frontiers in African Climate Science Research and Applications. The aim of ACC2013 is to bring together stakeholders to craft an Africa-wide agenda for climate research and to explore climate research priorities, identify information needs for early warning and adaptation, enhance the networking of climate scientists, and support capacity development. The first of its kind, this conference is being organized by the African Climate Policy Center (ACPC), the University of Dar es Salaam, and the World Climate Research Programme. For more details and to register, please visit www.climdev-africa.org/content/acc2013Frontiers.

• The third conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA–III) takes place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 21 – 23 October 2013. The theme of this year’s conference is “Africa on the rise: can the opportunities from climate change spring the continent to transformative development?” CCDA-III will prominently feature the outcomes of the Arusha conference that immediately precedes it. 

CCDA is organized each year under the auspices of the Climate for Development in Africa (ClimDev-Africa) Programme. ClimDev-Africa is a joint programme of three Pan-African institutions; United Nations Economic Commission (UNECA), the African Union Commission (AUC) and African Development Bank (AfDB).