Kulima runs training course at Southern African Climate Outlook Forum
Kulima will be participating in the dissemination meeting of the 15th Southern African Climate Outlook Forum, and then running sessions in the subsequent Disaster Risk Reduction stakeholders training workshop, taking place from 27-30th August in Windhoek, Namibia....
Forthcoming TWAS conference on climate change and food security
The African Academy of Sciences (AAS), the International Center for Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) and the TWAS Regional Office for Sub-Saharan Africa (TWAS-ROSSA) will be hosting a conference 'Climate Change and Food Security: The Road for Africa' from 10 to...
Kulima provides inputs on vulnerability to the Adaptation Academy
Katharine Vincent and Tracy Cull are in Cape Town for the third run of the foundation course of the Global Climate Adaptation Partnership Adaptation Academy. The four week, full time course provides insights into climate change science and applied aspects of...
Kulima collaborates with FAO to investigate sustainability of short-cycle seeds
Kulima is collaborating with FAO to assess the sustainability of a project distributing short-cycle seeds in Madagascar, Mozambique and Malawi. The Food Security and Disaster Risk Reduction project, funded by the European Union (ECHO/DIPECHO) has distributed...
UK Government Foresight Programme seeking Graduate Interns
The UK Government Office for Science Foresight Programme, with whom Kulima co-hosted a workshop on Global Environmental Migration in March, are seeking graduate internship positions in their London office. One is for a researcher within the Global Environmental...
Kulima sponsors Cowan House Family Golf Day
Kulima has participated in its first venture of community support, through sponsoring the Cowan House Family Golf Day. The event, held at Sakabula Golf Club in Howick, KwaZulu Natal, takes place annually, and is open to the families of students at the...
Routledge offers open access to selected journal articles in celebration of World Environment Day
To celebrate World Environment Day, held on 5th June, Routledge has created the Climate Change Collection, a selection of top articles concerning climate change, the carbon footprint, global warming and global sustainability. These papers, which normally require a...
First African Climate Teach-In Day on 3rd June
June 3rd marked the first "African Climate Teach-In Day", a day devoted to lectures and lessons around the issue of climate change taking place in schools and universities across the continent. The day aimed to disseminate information on climate change and its...
Deutsche Bank’s Carbon Counter
When it comes to motivation to act to address global issues, the fact that it is hard to discern the consequences of your individual impact relative to that of the other 6.9999 billion people on the planet is often a powerful disincentive. Climate change, like many...
Kulima added to the consortium running the Adaptation Academy
Kulima is pleased to have joined the consortium of partners that delivers the annual Adaptation Academy. Designed to equip decision-makers with the information and tools required to effectively adapt to climate change, the academy comprises two main stages: a...
Fifth run of the Wits Introduction to Vulnerability Risk Assessment completed
Dr Katharine Vincent and Dr Alec Joubert have just completed the fifth rollout of the University of the Witwatersrand’s short professional training course on Introduction to Vulnerability Risk Assessment in Johannesburg. The National Qualifications Foundation (NQF)...
Kulima directors publish book review in Progress in Development Studies
Katharine Vincent and Tracy Cull wrote a review of the book "Portfolios of the Poor: How the world's poor live on $2 a day", which has been published in the latest issue of the journal Progress in Development Studies (volume 11, number 2, April 2011). "Portfolios of...
Paper in Nature Climate Change points to need for boundary organisations
In a paper in Nature Climate Change published on 29 March 2011, Nick Pidgeon and Baruch Fischhoff make a compelling case for a more co-ordinated and integrated approach to communicating climate science. Recognising the challenge that climate scientists face in...
Formal launch of the ACCES report “Climate Change and Security in Africa: Vulnerability Report”
The Institute for Environmental Security and The Centre, Brussels, will host a presentation of the recent publication "Climate Change and Security in Africa: Vulnerability Report" on 8th April in Brussels. The document contains the results of research carried out in...
Climate change and arable food production in southern Africa
Kulima, in partnership with the Climate Systems Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town, has just begun a new project in conjunction with Oxfam GB, looking at climate change and arable food production in southern Africa. The project will involve working with...
Workshop on Global Environmental Migration in the drylands
Kulima and the UK Government Office for Science Foresight Programme will be co-hosting a workshop in Johannesburg on 10-11th March 2011. The event is part of the Foresight Programme's Global Environmental Migration Project, and will bring together 25 experts from...
USAID planning meeting for climate change officers
Tracy Cull has recently returned from Pretoria, where she facilitated an annual planning meeting for 37 climate change officers from around the African continent, together with staff from USAID headquarters in Washington, D.C.
INGC Planning Meeting in Maputo
Dr Katharine Vincent attended the INGC planning meeting, held on 23-24th February in Maputo, together with colleagues Dr Mark Tadross of Climate Risk Management and Dr Emma Archer of CSIR. Climate Risk Management is leading an INGC phase 2 project, in partnership...
Dr Alec Joubert cited in Financial Mail
Dr Alec Joubert has recently been cited in an article in South Africa’s Financial Mail. In “The Heat is On”, by Stafford Thomas, Alec talks of the projected nature of climate change in South Africa. Climate change is an inconvenient truth, as former US vice-president...
UNU-UNISDR-SEI Anglophone African Writeshop on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
Dr Katharine Vincent and Tracy Cull will shortly be leaving for Accra, Ghana, where they will be acting as mentors at the UNU-UNISDR-SEI Anglophone African Writeshop. The event, which aims to assist African early career scholars, practitioners and policy-makers to...
Paper by Kulima directors published in International Social Security Review
The paper “Cell phones, electronic delivery systems and social cash transfers: Recent evidence and experiences from Africa” by Dr Katharine Vincent and Ms Tracy Cull has just been published in the journal International Social Security Review. The paper is based on...
Dr Katharine Vincent leaves for Japan for IPCC Lead Authors Meeting
Dr Katharine Vincent has just left for Tsukuba, Japan, where she will participate in the first Lead Authors Meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Working Group Two for the forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report. Katharine is a lead author on...
South Africa releases Draft Second National Communication and Draft National Climate Change Response Strategy for comments
South Africa’s Department for Environmental Affairs has released the draft Second National Communication for comment. The document, which reports on the current status of projected climate change in South Africa, together with a status update on mitigation and...
Fourth run of the Wits Introduction to Vulnerability Risk Assessment completed
Dr Katharine Vincent and Ms Tracy Cull have just completed the fourth rollout of the University of the Witwatersrand’s short professional training course on Introduction to Vulnerability Risk Assessment in Johannesburg. The National Qualifications Foundation (NQF)...
Second Climate Change Adaptation in Africa Learning Forum in Dakar
Dr Katharine Vincent has just returned from the second learning forum of the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) Programme. The CCAA programme is funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and International Development Research Centre (IDRC)...
Seventh African Development Forum on Climate Change and Social Development
Dr Katharine Vincent and Ms Tracy Cull have been invited to write the lead presentation for a side event of the Seventh African Development Forum on Climate Change and Social Development, held from 13-15th October in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The parallel event on...