The main purpose of the two-year Master’s of Science programme is to provide postgraduate students with detailed knowledge, critical understanding, strategies and the tools required to take an interdisciplinary approach towards environmental risks and human security. The Master’s programme addresses theoretical and methodological debates in geography to better understand the complex emergence of environmental risks and natural hazards and their…

This is a fixed-term contract. The term is fixed for a period of 36 months. The position calls for 65 % of standard work hours per week. CLICCS is an ambitious research program at Universität Hamburg and its partner institutions. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), it is part of Germany’s Excellence Strategy. The program aims to understand climate changes, taking into account internal variability, extreme events, and unexpected side…

The Genesis Charitable Trust ("the Trust") provides grants for public benefit to help individuals and communities within developing countries to improve their standards of living. The Trust has broad objectives and an interest in projects that provide sustainable, long-term income generation and self-sufficiency, especially those making a demonstrable positive impact on marginalised communities currently beyond the reach of traditional government…

Washington Forest Legality Week is the signature annual event of WRI’s Forest Legality Initiative program. It is intended to enable dialogue and inspire action and partnerships to more effectively implement and monitor timber trade legality and due diligence measures. It is a multi-stakeholder, international event, drawing stakeholders from governments, the private sector, civil society, the scientific community, and service providers such as…

Practical Action has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Programme Officer in Climate Policy and Governance in the East Africa office. The Senior Programme Officer will spearhead provision of technical support towards achievement of climate change and natural resources policy interventions within the broader Climate and Resilience Program. Additionally, the position holder will contribute to the development of climate technology policy and…

Soulcial Trust a pour objectif de transformer l’esprit de collaboration des communautés. Nous croyons que chaque acteur, qu’il s’agisse d’un individu ou d’une organisation, qui participe à une initiative représente une valeur ajoutée à la réalisation de notre objectif social commun, celui d’une société d’entraide. Tâche spécifique : Le volontaire travaillera dans la branche Green Influence de Soulcial Trust. Elle/il interviendra sur les taches…

Les volontaires auront pour mission d'appuyer l'équipe de l'association "Aicha pour le développement de proximité et l'environnement" dans le cadre des activités réalisées auprès des agriculteurs et des habitants. Dans ce cadre les volontaires pourront être amenés à : - Sensibiliser la population à la préservation de l'environnement et à la biodiversité; notamment en participant à la création d'un guide de permaculture; - Participer à l…

Objectifs de la mission: Accompagner l’Union des Groupements des Producteurs d’Ananas dans l’identification d’un marché de l’ananas. La production de l’ananas, auparavant très florissante dans le département du Mono, a connu une baisse drastique. En 2009 et 2010, l’UGPA a mené un projet pilote, sur deux hectares, pour relancer la production d’ananas. Ils étaient distribués par l’entreprise « fruit d’or ». Le résultat était positif. Par contre l…

GLF Accra 2019 : Restaurer les paysages d’Afrique - Unir les actions d’en haut et d’en bas Joignez-vous aux dirigeants et aux décideurs de toute l'Afrique, aux scientifiques, aux représentants des entreprises et des secteurs financiers, aux communautés autochtones, aux groupes de jeunes et de femmes, aux médias mondiaux et aux dizaines de milliers de personnes dans le monde qui participent à l'édition numérique du GLF. Associez-vous à ceux et…

The joint PhD programme established at the United Nations University Institute for the Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES) and the Faculty of Environmental Sciences at TU Dresden is the latest among the very few doctoral programmes UNU currently offers. Research Scope The Joint PhD programme of TU Dresden and UNU, launched in 2015, is embedded within UNU-FLORES’s nexus-oriented research agenda and the…

The development of high-quality, real-world data sets constitutes an on-going need of the climate research, observations, and modelling communities and their joint activities. Key areas in data collection for climate change research still remain under-sampled today, also affecting efforts in climate model calibration, evaluation, and reanalysis. Recognizing this need for further advancing climate observations and their coordination, the World…

Power Africa seeks partners that are aligned with effort to 30,000 megawatts (MW) of cleaner, more efficient electricity generation capacity, as well as increase electricity access by adding 60 million new home and business connections throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Power Africa partners include a range of private sector players across the power delivery value chain that can help Power Africa and sub-Saharan African nations meet these ambitious…

Applicants proposing to conduct research in any phase of wildlife conservation or related fields of North American fauna - terrestrial and freshwater (rivers, lakes, streams), extant or fossil - are invited to apply to the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund. North America includes everything north of the Isthmus of Panama, including the Caribbean. These awards are intended principally to assist early career scientists -- advanced predoctoral…

In this program, the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) partners with French and German institutions to permit an exchange of graduate students. This program allows AMNH graduate students to spend 3 months during the year at selected universities in France and/or Germany and also allows students from French and German universities to come to the AMNH for 3 months. The German and French institution graduate students who come to the AMNH to…

The Health, Safety, Social and Environmental (HSSE) management unit falls under the UNOPS SSC Group. It is responsible for supporting the development and implementation of environmental management good practices in UNOPS projects and operations. The HSSE unit also helps to set the environmental management policy and strategic direction of UNOPS in line with the UN common system standards and international best practices. A key component of the…

A punto de finalizar el primer tercio del tiempo establecido para el cumplimiento de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), surge la pregunta qué contribuciones están generando las universidades para su consecución. Este congreso representa un punto de encuentro de universidades para compartir experiencias y generar oportunidades de nuevos aprendizajes, alianzas y encauzar los retos del desarrollo. Algunas de las temáticas que incluye este…

Programme de l'évènement: Veille réglementaire, retours d'expériences, cas pratiques et échanges autour de 2 thématiques : -L'adaptation au changement climatique : comment répondre aux problématiques rejets et accès à la ressource, -La dépollution et la réhabilitation de sites industriels : les modalités de prise en compte de la biodiversité. Pitch de projets et solutions innovantes: Les solutions fondées sur la nature au service des…

Programme de l'évènement: Veille réglementaire, retours d'expériences, cas pratiques et échanges autour de 2 thématiques : L'adaptation au changement climatique : comment répondre aux problématiques rejets et accès à la ressource, La dépollution et la réhabilitation de sites industriels : les modalités de prise en compte de la biodiversité. Pitch de projets et solutions innovantes: Les solutions fondées sur la nature au service des problématiques…

Our fantastic CBM team has been working for last two months organising the CBM side event “Talking capacity building and you. A chance to share and to receive” at the #UNCCDCOP14. It is an exciting and inspiring time. We have a lot to do but we all learnt a ton from it. We are looking forward to the event. Although not everyone could go to India, we are excited to have this opportunity to follow the events of the COP. It is great seeing how…

The International Research Conference is a federated organization dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference program. Events will run over a span of time during the conference depending on the number and length of the presentations. International Conference on Irrigation Water Management and Practices aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and…