Project description
Innovative concepts for climate mitigation actions in Africa
Africa is most affected by climate change. It is also the continent that requires the most work to achieve the ambitious goals set in the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The EU-funded KADI project will provide concepts for developing the best science and science-based services in Africa to accelerate common actions for climate change mitigation. The consortium consists of partners from Africa and Europe and combines different experiences. It will provide an inclusive design for a pan-African climate observation system based on a comprehensive documentation of past and existing observing capability, a broad information network as the basis for successful and sustainable cooperation that connects all stakeholders.
Objective
The project ?Knowledge and climate services from an African observation and Data research Infrastructure? aims to provide concepts for developing the best available science and science-based services in Africa that are needed to sharpen our common action on climate change as outlined in the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, in particular SDG 13 ?Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts?. The concepts we want to provide aim at improving the knowledge base on climate change in Africa and developing the tools to combat the negative consequences of it. This basic objective shall be achieved by a consortium that combines partners from Africa and Europe but also combines diverse experiences, backgrounds and viewpoints. The common goal is to provide a comprehensive concept that supports the important societal role of research outlined above by co-designing research capacities for climate change observation with societal demands and expectations, in our case called ?climate services? and to pave the way for their implementation.
The specific objectives of the proposed project are:
? A comprehensive design for a pan-African climate observation system developed on the basis of climate services as guiding design principle. This shall be rooted in a comprehensive documentation of past and existing observing capability, contrasted with scientifically justified requirements to identify the gaps.
? A broad information network as basis for a successful and sustainable cooperation that connects infrastructure operators, scientists, data and knowledge users, a community of practice in climate services, agencies and funding bodies. This will be achieved by a dense networking and knowledge exchange approach connecting to all important players on the global, continental, national, and local level.
? A solid strategy for implementation and usage in close connection to future actors and users.
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinator
00560 Helsinki
Finland