by Katharine Vincent | Feb 24, 2011 | Projects, Travel
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...
by Katharine Vincent | Feb 24, 2011 | Publications
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...
by Katharine Vincent | Jan 8, 2011 | Travel
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...
by Katharine Vincent | Nov 30, 2010 | Projects, Publications
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...
by Katharine Vincent | Nov 19, 2010 | Projects, Training
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)...