Physical climate change impacts are emerging across a diverse spectrum local, regional, national, and global settings in which engineered systems and infrastructure play key roles. As a result, engineers find themselves as stakeholders in a growing number consequential climate adaptation decisions. Consideration of climate change in the professional engineering setting is thus emerging as an important factor in engineered design, as well in…

ECR Environnement est un bureau d’études et de conseil indépendant spécialisé dans : les études géotechniques & études de sol, la topographie et la détection de réseaux, l’ingénierie VRD & aménagements urbains et les études environnementales. Réparties sur le territoire national, en Espagne, et en Antilles-Guyane, les 20 agences se développent dans le but de favoriser la proximité managériale, la prise d’initiative et la réactivité face aux…

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has announced a Reforestation Grants program to support communities in regaining ecological integrity and enhancing human wellbeing in deforested and degraded landscapes through forest restoration. People and nature rely on healthy forests. Eight out of 10 land-dwelling species and nearly 750 million people live in and depend on forests for goods and services such as food, wood, medicine, fresh water, and air. Despite…

SOUFFLET, groupe familial agroalimentaire français intervient sur les filières orge, blé, riz et légumes secs dans une démarche de développement durable. Vous serez le/la référent(e) agronome pour votre région auprès des agriculteurs, des Commerciaux et des chefs de silos. Ce poste est rattaché au site de NOGENT SUR SEINE, mais votre secteur sera positionné principalement sur le département de l'YONNE. Missions : Au sein de l'équipe Service…

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". Its mandate is to coordinate the development of environmental policy consensus by keeping the global environment…

Paris, New York, Beijing, Mumbai, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Lagos… all Megacities – urban centers which accommodate more than 10 million inhabitants - are facing “mega”-challenges related to providing water services for their inhabitants, while managing their environment. Climate change effects of intensifying magnitude and global challenges such as sea level rise, increasing temperatures or urbanization, threaten these cities. Now, there is a…

The Hamouns are transboundary wetlands on the Iran-Afghanistan border and cover three lakes. These wetlands are an integral part of the region’s unique social and cultural environment. The Sistan plain including Hamoun wetlands in Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran is vulnerable to changes of climate, especially concerning its impacts on water availability (surface runoffs), increased temperatures and increased hot-spots of sand and dust…

BiodivERsA and Water JPI are pleased to announce that their transnational 2020-2021 joint Call on “Conservation and restoration of degraded ecosystems and their biodiversity, including a focus on aquatic systems” is now open. The call includes a focus on aquatic systems but all environments are eligible. The research proposals will be evaluated, among others, across the criteria of scientific excellence, quality and efficiency of the…

Bio Nouvelle-Aquitaine, fédération régionale d’agriculture biologique rassemble agriculteurs, producteurs bio et des acteurs opérateurs, institutionnels, économiques & sociaux. Cette fédération travaille ensemble avec ses partenaires, depuis la production jusqu’à la consommation, pour développer l’agriculture et les filières bio dans un projet global pour une économie équitable sur les territoires. Bio Nouvelle-Aquitaine agit pour le…

Enabel est l’Agence belge de développement. Elle exécute et coordonne la politique belge de développement international, et travaille principalement pour le compte de l’État belge. En Mali, Enabel met en œuvre des projets principalement dans les domaines de la décentralisation et du développement rural. La région de Koulikoro est l’entité territoriale où se concentre le déploiement du programme de coopération bilatéral. Ce programme intervient…

Jordan is adversely impacted by climate change, climate models of the Third National Communication of Jordan on climate change indicate that warmer summers relative to other seasons are extremely likely to occur including, decrease of precipitation, heat waves, the maximum number of dry days is likely to increase per year, and consecutive dry days. An increase in the water deficit up to 30% during over the 20 years is predicted as highly likely…

Asian Development Bank (ADB) is an international development finance institution headquartered in Manila, Philippines and is composed of 68 members, 49 of which are from the Asia and Pacific region. ADB is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. The position is assigned in the Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Division…

DTU focuses on research in technical and natural sciences that contributes to the development of society. As an industrially orientated university, our goal is to supply high-level international research based on combining theory with constructing models and empirical methods. Learn about the best environmental technologies for a sustainable development and how they are managed in various settings around the world. This course gives you an…

The University of Florida (UF) is recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in academic excellence, both on campus and online. Ranked in the top 10 of Public Universities, the University of Florida is the state’s oldest university and has a long established tradition of academic excellence. This course will cover the agricultural and urban water quality issues in Florida, their bases, land and nutrient management strategies, and the…

The Africa Climate Action Initiative (ACAI) of the Canada Africa Partnership (CAP) Network is partnering with the Institute of Economics and Peace (IEP) to deliver a briefing webinar on Tuesday, November 10 about the recently launched Ecological Threat Register (ETR). The ETR measures ecological threats that countries are currently facing, provides projections to 2050, and shows the ability of nations and their resilience – as measured by…

Droughts are the most far-reaching of all-natural disasters, causing short and long-term economic and ecological losses as well as significant secondary and tertiary impacts. To reduce societal vulnerability to droughts, there is a need to overcome the prevailing structures of reactive, post-hazard management approaches and to move towards proactive and risk management approaches. UNCCD’s focus on drought risk management is particularly on…

Several studies have been conducted on the economic gains to society by investing in restoration. A global estimation is that for every R16 (roughly a dollar) spent on restoration, up to R1 200 (75-dollars) of economic benefits can be recovered. The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to speed up collaboration amongst all stakeholders and across all UN member states to invest in restoration. There are several impediments to restoration, such…

CERTIPAQ est un organisme certificateur associatif spécialisé dans le contrôle de signes officiels agricoles et agro-alimentaires : Label-Rouge, AB, IGP, AOC, Global Gap, RCNA, VLOG, etc… Son rôle est d’assurer le contrôle et la certification des exploitations agricoles, entreprises artisanales ou industrielles engagées dans les démarches qualité collectives ou individuelles. De dimension nationale et européenne, il compte plus de 90 salariés et…

Une des thématiques scientifiques de l’ISTO, Institut des Sciences de la Terre d’Orléans, porte sur la quantification et la modélisation des flux d’émission de gaz à effet de serre (GES) dans les zones humides (tourbières) dans le but d’estimer le bilan de carbone et de caractériser la variabilité spatiale et temporelle des GES (CO2 et CH4) émis par ces zones humides qui renferment 1/3 du stock de carbone des sols mondiaux et pouvant ainsi…

En lien avec ses 150 correspondant.e.s en régions, le réseau Agriculture de France Nature Environnement s’investit pour promouvoir, à l’échelle nationale et européenne, une agriculture productive et durable, respectueuse des équilibres naturels (eau, sol, biodiversité, air, climat). Au sein du réseau Agriculture, le/la chargé.e de mission exerce sa fonction, sous l’autorité hiérarchique de la Coordinatrice du réseau et travaille en lien…

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in cooperation with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) are organising a regional conference on “Human Mobility in the Context of COVID-19”. IGAD hereby cordially invite abstracts to be submitted for presentation at the upcoming conference on 22-24 February 2021 in Addis Ababa, Etiopia. The scientific conference aims to investigate the lasting effects of the pandemic…

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding. CRS’ Nigeria office is implementing…