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2011
New voices, different perspectives: Proceedings of the AfricaAdapt Climate Change Symposium 2011
Linking climate change and Africa’s development: proceedings from regional symposium
This report brings together the proceedings of the 2011 AfricaAdapt Climate Change Symposium, which share the research, experiences, and co-constructed knowledge that emerged from the three-day, bilingual symposium with the wider climate and development community.
The publication includes short abstracts of all the papers and addresses delivered over the event, and provides links to more extended versions of the papers, powerpoint presentations, and other relevant resources. It aims to capture the dialogue and sharing that occurred during the three days in the form of participant experience notes, reflective quotes from participants, photos, video clips, and reports from the Symposium’s interactive plenary sessions.
The publication includes short abstracts of all the papers and addresses delivered over the event, and provides links to more extended versions of the papers, powerpoint presentations, and other relevant resources. It aims to capture the dialogue and sharing that occurred during the three days in the form of participant experience notes, reflective quotes from participants, photos, video clips, and reports from the Symposium’s interactive plenary sessions.
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- global climate
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- climate change (Globale Erwärmung)
- Climate change is a lasting change in weather patterns over long periods of time. It can be a natural phenomena and and has occurred on Earth even before people inhabited it. Quite different is a current situation that is also referred to as climate change, anthropogenic climate change, or global warming. This change in weather patterns appears to be happening much faster and is linked to human activity contributing to the greenhouse effect.
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