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Join a six-month learning programme betweenLatin American, African and South Asian policymakers and practitioners that offers learning fromcommon problems and solutions besides a chancefor networking. The first round starts in March withthree courses.

SysTem for Analysis Research and Training (START),an organization dedicated to building capacityamong people and institutions in developingcountries through grants, fellowships and trainingprogrammes, has announced a Call for Proposals(CFP) for research on integrating disaster riskreduction and climate change adaptation forresilient development in South Asia. This research...

UNU’s Institute for Sustainability and Peace hasannounced postgraduate-level courses on ‘BuildingResilience to Climate Change’. The courses will runfor five weeks in Tokyo (Japan) from 20 February to23 March, 2012. Following are two courses that willbe offered for a duration of two weeks each:Course 1: Science,...

The CDKN Innovation Fund, which supportsinnovative thinking and action, is invitingapplications for the fund, which is a fast-movingsupport for creative initiatives in the field ofclimate change and international development.The Innovation Fund is structured around twostages. Stage 1 provides support for organizations/partnerships in designing and developing...

The African Economic Research Consortium(AERC) and the United Nations University’sWorld Institute for Development EconomicsResearch (UNU-WIDER) are engaged in acollaborative program focused on climate changeissues. Proposals for research activities in thearea of climate change and green developmentare welcomed from scholars throughout theAERC network

Applications are invited for a course on ‘AdaptiveThinking for Navigating the Anthropocene’ from 25June to 6 July. The course directors are Laszlo Pinter,Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy,CEU, Budapest, Hungary, and Anton Shkaruba,Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy,CEU. Applications are invited from PhD studentsand young...

The National Climate Change Adaptation ResearchFacility’s (NCCARF) annual national conferencewill be held in Melbourne from June 26 to 28. Itsfocus will be on the information needed to ensureAustralia is adapting well to climate change. Theabstract call and early bird registration are nowopen. Abstracts of up...

DPI Victoria has announced its new climate webinarseries, with six webinars planned over the next sixmonths. The participation is free, but you need toregister. The topics include ‘Climate, water and foodproduction: Victoria’s position in big picture’ and‘Calculating farm emissions with the new FarmGasScenario Tool’.

CLEAR project is a 5-year initiative of LEAD Pakistan,focusing on climate change impacts on the lives ofpoor people and farmers in Southern Sindh andPunjab. It aims to streamline their local climateadaptation practices and develop district-basedLocal Adaptation Plans of Actions. LEAD Pakistanintends to implement its project...

The Kathmandu Call for Action was adopted by the participants of the International Conference of Mountain Countries on Climate Change organized by the Government of Nepal in Kathmandu, from April 5 to 6. ICIMOD provided support to the conference, as did a number of other...