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...