Are you a young African woman engaged in Africa’s energy sector ready to take your career to the next level? Are you interested in increasing your leadership skills, strengthening your professional networks, gaining new career opportunities, and demonstrating a desire to take on a greater leadership role? The Young African Leaders Initiative Regional Leadership Center East Africa (YALI RLC-EA) and Power Africa, a U.S government led partnership…

The second of two meetings organised by Denmark as Chair of the European Network Integrate will take place on 29-30 April 2020. The main topic is on how to integrate segregation in SFM and the tools, scale and processes involved. The venue is the Grib Forest near Hillerød north of Copenhagen. This is an excellent opportunity to learn from the Danish example, as Denmark is in the process of doubling the state forest area to be set-a-side for…

Established in 1944, The World Bank Group (WBG) is one of the world’s largest sources of funding and knowledge for development solutions. It is governed by 188-member countries and delivers services out of 120 offices with nearly 15,000 staff located globally. Agriculture is an essential pathway to meeting the World Bank Group’s (WBG) twin goals, eliminating extreme poverty by 2030 and promoting shared prosperity. Food production must increase by…

Climate change, trade, and sustainable development agendas are increasingly converging. Acknowledging the role of trade as an engine for sustainable development, countries have begun how new trade rules can be designed to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change. One example is the announced Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability (ACCTS), which will be negotiated between Costa Rica…

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. UNICEF's activities include immunizations and disease prevention, administering treatment for children and mothers with HIV, enhancing childhood and maternal nutrition, improving sanitation, promoting education, and providing…

ERM Korea Ltd. is seeking highly competent candidates with experience in, or knowledge of, CDM and Korea offset program, K-ETS (Korea- Emission Trading Scheme) compliance and strategy, global climate change initiatives, climate change risk assessment and other climate change related topics. The incumbents will be responsible for providing guidance and technical support to clients, performing analysis, developing strategy, plan and conclusion…

Energy and Environmental Sciences represent a convergence of science designed to address the imminent concerns presented by climate change. A rapidly growing and necessary field, professionals who graduate from these programs will be prepared for leadership in organizations addressing the policy and practice of energy systems and their impact on human institutions and ecosystems. Earn a master’s degree or graduate certificate with the prestige of…

International Conference on Forestry Food and Sustainable Agriculture (ICFFSA) will be held on 23rd April, 2020 at Barcelona, Spain. ICFFSA is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Forestry Food and Sustainable Agriculture to a common forum. All the registered papers will be published by the World Research Library and will be submitted for review for indexing by Google Scholar etc. This Conference is…

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH or GIZ in short (English: German Corporation for International Cooperation GmbH) is a German development agency headquartered in Bonn and Eschborn that provides services in the field of international development cooperation. According to the World Bank, two-thirds of the world population lives on less than $10 per day. Unexpected expenses related to illness, injury or the loss…

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. The Guyana Land and Survey Commission (GLSC) and FAO are implementing the project Mainstreaming Sustainable Land Development and Management In the Cooperative Republic of Guyana. The project aims at establishing an enabling environment for…

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations global development network. It advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life for themselves.The Namibia Accelerator Lab of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is looking for an upcoming young vibrant student to take up the role of a UNDP Intern for a 6-month period. The ideal candidate is…

The Terrestrial Ecosystems Lab at UNH’s Earth Systems Research Center seeks a graduate student (PhD-level preferred) to conduct research on spatial patterns of carbon cycling and ecosystem processes in northeastern U.S. forests. The student will join a dynamic and collaborative group of researchers and fellow grad students who seek to understand landscape to regional scale patterns of forest growth, carbon cycling and terrestrial-aquatic linkages…

The Wuppertal Institute in collaboration with the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) will host an expert workshop to discuss how the nature of the annual meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC may be shaped to make the best use of what has become a global focusing event for climate action. With this Call for Ideas, inviting proposals on how the UNFCCC could take advantage of the…

“Limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is not impossible, but will require unprecedented transitions in all aspects of society,” warned Hoesung Lee, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), upon the release of the panel’s report in October 2018. The IPCC says global net human-caused carbon-dioxide emissions must be reduced to zero by 2050 to keep global warming below 1.5°C. In the absence of such action, the IPCC predicts…

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH or GIZ, in short, is a German development agency headquartered in Bonn and Eschborn that provides services in the field of international development cooperation. Strong knowledge of international climate change discussions and relevant international frameworks such as the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement is a requirement for the…

The World Future Council (WFC) is looking for policies, laws and legal frameworks that strengthen the sustainable management of chemicals across the life-cycle. They seek nominations of impacting policies, laws and legal frameworks that protect human health, including the health of children, and the environment with policies including: Comprehensive chemical policies; Specific policies on; The protection of human health from chemicals across the…

The Environment Advisor’s main role is to lead the environment team, helping them work effectively with other colleagues in the Regional team and to promote a culture of positive environmental stewardship. You will support your team in the development of plans that focus on habitat restoration, species conservation and environmental improvement often at a landscape scale. These plans inform programmes of work, and are used to obtain our…

Over the past ten years, LANDac conferences have proven to offer a productive space for knowledge exchange, reflection and debate about issues of concern to the global land governance community. With the annual conferences, LANDac puts critical developments and emerging issues on the agenda, takes stock of trends in land governance transformation, and connects land governance to adjacent academic and policy fields. The 2020 Conference identifies…

As a participant on the Environmental Internship programme, you will be working with a local NGO and Balinese farming communities to improve environmental practices and standards. Many of the farmers you'll meet have already been working to counter the negative environmental impact of the so-called 'Green Revolution,' a set of initiatives sponsored by the Indonesian government in the 1950's and 60's to increase crop yields using harmful…

The Women's Protection & Empowerment (WPE) Deputy Coordinator will lead the IRC’s WPE programs in establishing services to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls (VAWG) across 2-3 provinces, with the potential to also support a WPE mobile response embedded within an emergency team and advise emergency teams in Afghanistan to reduce the risks women and girls face when accessing short term emergency response programs. Since 1979…

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. Established in April 2012, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has a…

The climate emergency is happening right now, in our cities, towns and regions around the world. Our global leaders are failing to address this urgent crisis. But the daring actions of local leaders are spreading around the globe. Created by ICLEI and the city of Bonn, Daring Cities is a radical, action-oriented forum to recognize and empower courageous urban leaders – including mayors and other decision-makers, technical staff, researchers…

The PhD Programme in Biology and Ecology of Global Changes is a co-tutoring PhD programme between Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal) and the University of Lisbon (Portugal), with the participation of the Federal University of Tocantins (Brasil) and the University of Brasilia (Brasil). The Biology and Ecology of Global Changes programme from Universidade de Aveiro demands a strong interest of students in the areas of specialization of the programme…

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations global development network. It advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience, and resources to help people build a better life for themselves. A good understanding of the national development policy of Namibia and the National Budget system and demonstrable expertise in designing and carrying out both quantitative and qualitative research work is…

Description CLIFF-GRADS is a joint initiative of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change (CCAFS) low emissions agriculture flagship and the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA). The programme aims to build the capability of early career agricultural students in developing countries to conduct applied research on climate change mitigation in agriculture. CLIFF invites applications from PhD students from developing…