Descripción del proyecto
Conceptos innovadores para mitigar el cambio climático en África
África es la más afectada por el cambio climático. También es el continente que requiere más esfuerzos para alcanzar las ambiciosas metas fijadas en el Acuerdo de París y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible de las Naciones Unidas. El proyecto KADI, financiado con fondos europeos, aportará conceptos para desarrollar en África la ciencia y los servicios con base científica más adecuados para acelerar las actividades comunes destinadas a mitigar el cambio climático. El consorcio está formado tanto por socios de África como Europa y combina distintas experiencias. Asimismo, proporcionará un diseño inclusivo destinado a un sistema panafricano de observación del clima basado en una documentación exhaustiva de la capacidad de observación actual y pasada, una amplia red de información como fundamento de una cooperación fructífera y sostenible que conecte a todas las partes interesadas.
Objetivo
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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Finlandia