AfricaAdapt climate change symposium 2011

Overview

This three-day bilingual (French/English) symposium is a landmark event focusing on evolving approaches, tools, methods and philosophies addressing the links between increasing climate change and variability in Africa and sustainable development. It will feature keynote speakers from across the continent, and also provide a space for creative new exchanges and collaboration between African research, media, policy, and community practitioners. This is an opportunity to share your knowledge and experience of this important subject and work with others to help make a difference.

Symposium Objectives

- To provide a forum for exploring and promoting the latest and best in applied research on climate change adaptation and development in Africa.
- To create a space for engagement between African research, practitioner and policy communities of practice.
- To provide African media with opportunities to interact with these communities of practice so they can better communicate efforts being made to address climate change in Africa, and so they can articulate local concerns and priorities.

Themes to be explored include

- Links between adaptation, mitigation and low carbon, or “climate compatible” development
- Roles of local and indigenous knowledge in addressing climate change
- New thinking on community-led responses: From local to global
- The roles of media and intermediaries in translating, sharing, and advocating
- National and international policy: Linking policy and practice

Currently AfricaAdapt is calling for proposals focussing on the themes listed above. The deadline for submitting proposals for symposium consideration is January 3rd, 2011. Proposals should be submitted as an abstract – maximum 300 words. A committee comprised of members from the symposium sponsors will review all abstracts who will assess submissions and draw up a shortlist for extended proposals.