Learning Events

The side event showcases one Sub-Saharan African country’s success, acts as an advert for other African projects in the future to raise awareness and shows that such projects are successful and could be replicated in other African countries with view to enhance the regional distribution of CDM.

This training aims to strengthen the network of experts on sustainable energy in Francophone Africa. It is intended to reinforce renewable energy institutions and qualified personnel, establish a dynamic network of scientific exchange and transfer of technical know-how, provide training and qualification for teams of trainers, and develop a communication network.

This regional workshop brings together government delegates, policy makers, scientists and climate change experts to strengthen knowledge about the climate change impacts in mountain areas, to discuss adaptation options in mountain ecosystems and to promote better alliances and cooperation amongst countries with mountain territories so to reinforce their understanding of key issues. The meeting is complemented with a field visit to Mount Elgon and communities on its slopes to observe emerging micro-climate changes, their causes and effects so to discuss coping mechanisms and suitable adaptation strategies. This workshop is part of a series of three regional workshops organized within the framework of the “Strategic Initiative for Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Development in Mountain Regions”.

This e-course aims to enhance the capacity of local decision makers and urban and transportation planners to formulate and implement appropriate policies that contribute to sustainability in urban transport in developing cities and countries and to address climate change. It allows for an analysis of the main issues of sustainable  transport including transport demand management, improved public and non-motorized transport, environmental protection, road safety, and gender in transport.

This regional workshop brings together government delegates, policy makers, scientists and climate change experts to strengthen knowledge about the climate change impacts in mountain areas, to discuss adaptation options in mountain ecosystems and to promote better alliances and cooperation amongst countries with mountain territories so to reinforce their understanding of key issues. The meeting is complemented with a field visit to the Nurobod district of the Rasht Valley and to two villages with pilot activities addressing the complexity of climate change in high altitude contexts. This workshop is part of a series of three regional workshops organized within the framework of the “Strategic Initiative for Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Development in Mountain Regions”.

This e-Learning course of the World Bank Institute provides project developers, carbon market agents, development practitioners and government agencies with essential knowledge on climate change and carbon finance. It helps to better understand the opportunities and challenges of the Programmatic Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and illustrates how Programmatic CDM can be used as a tool for catalyzing low carbon development. The course builds on the experience of the World Bank Group and strategic partners such as the German Development Bank (KfW) and the United Nations Environment Program.

The conference aims to introduce latest findings from scientific research on climate variation, climate change and its links with disaster risk management, showcase related projects undertaken in both industrialized and developing countries and discuss current challanges and opportunities. It comprises the combination of a scientific online symposium and interactive virtual sections.

The Adaptation Forum 2011 provides an occasion to share frontline findings and innovations, opportunities and challenges in mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development. Building on from Adaptation Forum 2010, it aims to focus on “Adaptation in Action” signifying a shift from deliberations to decisions, plans to policies and policies to practices. The interactive Adaptation Forum 2011 gathers adaptation practitioners at global, regional, national, and sub-national levels. The format is a diverse range of plenary and keynote sessions, panel discussions, roundtables, thematic side events, market place, photo and poster exhibitions and film festival. Sessions will be facilitated by eminent climate scientists, adaptation experts and development planners from the region.

This regional workshop brings together government delegates, policy makers, scientists and climate change experts to strengthen knowledge about the climate change impacts in mountain areas, to discuss adaptation options in mountain ecosystems and to promote better alliances and cooperation amongst countries with mountain territories so to reinforce their understanding of key issues. The meeting is complemented with a field visit to Cajón Del Maipo, a canyon located in the Andean south-eastern portion of the Santiago Metropolitan Region. This workshop is part of a series of three regional workshops organized within the framework of the “Strategic Initiative for Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Development in Mountain Regions”.

Through this writeshop, participants produce a peer-review, publishable quality article and gain enhanced awareness of the process of writing papers for academic journals. These skills will allow their work to be eligible for incorporation into publications of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other high-level scientific bodies and consequently inform policy making on key issues of risk and climate. The writeshop involves one-on-one work with facilitators to provide guidance and supplemental training on academic writing skills and argumentation, in order to help new authors reach a standard of writing suitable for publication in peer-reviewed journals. It targets young scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and others from the Caribbean who are working in the field of climate change and disaster risk reduction.

This conference aims to: take stock of the current state of global knowledge of the science and best practices concerning climate-smart agriculture, in OECD and developing countries, and among private and public stakeholders; identify key priorities for further knowledge development; and summarize key findings for discussion at the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the UNFCCC in Durban, South Africa, at the end of 2011, and the follow up global conference on Food Security and Climate Change in Viet Nam in early 2012.