Greg Benchwick
Dear Climate Innovations Network Subscribers,
On a weekly basis, we'll be sharing an update of the latest news on meteorology, adaptation efforts and climate information from around the region. We hope this will serve as a vehicle for knowledge exchange and continued collaboration. We'd love to hear your success stories on this forum as well.
Happy New Year!
Ethiopia: Ministry Calls On Stakeholders to Build NMA Capacity
AllAfrica.com
The Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity called on all stakeholders to assist National Meteorology Agency (NMA) in creating enabling condition to provide more accurate meteorological information. Speaking at an international conference with …
Ethiopia: Micro-Insurance for Small-Scale Agriculture
AllAfrica.com
Small-scale agriculture has for long been the most marginalized sector in terms of having access to credit and insurance services. Small-scale farmings do not attract financial institutions and investment because of the high risk associated with them ...
Uganda: 85 New Weather Stations to Be Installed
AllAfrica.com
"It is scalable and easily transferrable to communities across Africa. ... The weather forecast is the biggest joke ever," said Mr David Ongare of National …
Malawi: Rain Gauges Helping With Climate Change in Malawi
AllAfrica.com
Erin Collins — Malawian farmers are learning to adapt to a changing climate through innovations that help build resilience to extreme weather shocks - one of these is a simple-to-use rain gauge. Throughout the past year, Malawi has suffered the …
COP21: the good and the bad for Africa
Africa Times
It is then ironic that Africa is the most vulnerable to climate change – it suffers .... Pan-African cooperation enables information, knowledge and capacity ...
Africa Looks for Help to Implement Climate Agreement
Voice of America
Africa cannot be left to foot the bill for climate change, so say leaders and ... Farmers there receive little or no relevant information to help them cope ...
Building resilience to climate change in rural Malawi
New Internationalist (blog)
For developing countries like Malawi, the Paris COP has come too late to prevent climate change entirely. For Malawi, and others already feeling the effects of global warming, world leaders at Paris need to deliver not just emission cuts, but also ...
Liberia: Minister Bush Meets Secretary General of the World Meteorological ...
AllAfrica.com
On the side-line of the ongoing UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, France, Liberia's Transport Minister, Angela Cassell Bush held talks with the Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Michel Jarraud. According to a ...
Gambia: UTG Holds Climate Change Research Agenda Workshop
AllAfrica.com
The University of The Gambia (UTG) recently organised a daylong training workshop on national consultations on the West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land use (WASCAL). The aim was to fulfill its mission as a …
Gambia Bears Unfair Burden From Effects of Climate Change
AllAfrica.com
Hon. Pa Ousman Jarju, the Minister of Environment, Climate Change, Water, Forestry and Wildlife has stated that despite all efforts that The Gambia is doing, resources they have spent on adaptation will be meaningless if there are no tangible actions ...
When the climate changes, migration does too
Forests News, Center for International Forestry Research (blog)
He pointed to migration from dry Sahelian countries such as Niger and Burkina Faso. Those migrants' arrival in coastal West African nations has acted as a multiplier of the degraded land in those countries. Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Togo, and Guinea have …
Ababu Anage
Dear Greg,
I am managing Strengthening Climate Information and Early warning Project from UNDP. Wil you please add me to Climate Innovations Network??
My Best Regards
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Ababu Anage National Climate Change Specilalist, Climate Resillient Green Growth Unit United Nations Development Programme ECA Old Building, 7th Floor, Africa Hall PO Box 5580, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ababu.anage @ undp.org Office Tel:+251-115-515177 ext. 34133 or +251-115-444-133 (Direct) Mobil: +251 – 911 843801 Fax: +251-115-515147
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From: Sinkinesh Beyene
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Subject: FW: [CIRDA Forum] Climate Information News
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Sinkinesh Beyene (Mrs.) Team Leader, Climate Resilient Green Growth Unit United Nations Development Programme ECA Old Building, 7th Floor, Africa Hall PO Box 5580, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Office Tel:+251-115-515177 (Cell) +251-911-216463,+251-115-515147 (Fax) www.undp.org
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