Events in Social & NGOs

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and the Conservation Technology Information Center are hosting an international discussion about the potential of conservation agriculture systems and sequestering carbon in contributing significantly to the mitigation of climate change.

The International Symposium Geotunis 2008 with the participation of scholars, experts, researchers, companies and research laboratories which use the geographic information systems and remote sensing.

Sustainable energy in the urban environment is the focus of this exciting event, starting a multi-year series. Local governments play an important role in transforming our communities into the post-carbon age with renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy savings as major cornerstones.... more

Implementation of Renewable Energy in the Emerging Markets of Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean 2009 (REEM09) is an inaugural event that will unite leaders in renewable energy and develop systems for implementing these technologies in countries within the emerging markets.

Recent research by keynote speaker Dr. James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, suggests the need to reduce atmospheric levels of CO₂ concentrations from the current 385 parts per million (ppm) to 350 ppm or lower in order to avoid climate change. The... more

Rationale

Despite 17 years of negotiations since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, global greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise. Since 2000 the rates of annual emissions growth have increased at rates at the upper end of the IPCC scenarios, presenting the global community with a... more

The resumed ninth session of the the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) and resumed seventh session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative... more

How successfully do cities respond to the carbon mitigation needs will determine the success of the global carbon　mitigation. IEA's World Energy Outlook 2008 estimates cities' global energy and energy-related CO2 emission contributions to 67% and 71% respectively. We already know a lot... more

The National Capital Area Chapter of the Fulbright Association invites you to attend Theory to Action: The Science, Economics, and Policy of Climate Change. Climate change is an ever increasing topic for debate. Science for the first time in history has stepped heavily into the public arena... more

Climate change is becoming a major driver of disasters, with increasingly frequent and intense floods and storms affecting more people globally. Increased forced displacement is an extremely likely consequence of such events. Heightened drought risk, desertification, sea-level rise, and... more

Leading up to the pivotal UN COP15 Summit in Copenhagen, the Copenhagen Climate Exchange exhibition will be the meeting place for cities, municipalities, NGOs and innovative enterprises from all over the World. The main topic is "practical solutions to the climate crisis," and the key word is "public participation."

The last two years several Dutch humanitarian and development NGOs organised a conference on adaptation to climate change in developing countries. Goal of the conferences was to share experiences on adaptation of NGO practitioners, scientists, government officials and companies and to... more

Climate change is expanding the vulnerability of both people and ecosystems to disruptive impacts such as drought, increased frequency and intensity of weather events, alteration of agricultural productivity, migration of species and competition over available potable water supplies. These... more

To Be, or Not to Be? New leadership for a sustainable economy

At Hamlet's Kronborg Castle, Elsinore (in Helsingør, just outside Copenhagen)

The Copenhagen Climate Council and the UN Global Compact establish the basis for success at the U.N.... more

World Future Energy Summit, the world's platform for sustainable future energy solutions, provides an ideal networking event for industry leaders, investors, scientists, specialists, policymakers, and researchers to discuss the challenges of rising energy demand and actions to achieve a... more

The 5th Global Oceans Conference will specifically address the challenges and opportunities posed by the emerging international consensus on a new climate... more

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, the first local government network to support UNFCCC Nairobi Work Programme on Adaptation, and the City of Bonn invite you to join the Resilient Cities 2010 Congress, to be held on 28-30 May 2010 in Bonn, Germany, and present your... more