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  • 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference

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    Date : November 29, 2010

    The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Mexico from 29 November 2010 to 10 December 2010.

    The conference is officially referred to as the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16) and the 6th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP6).

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  • 8th International Conference African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE)

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    Date : October 25, 2010

    Date: 25-29 October, 2010
    Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    The central theme of the conference is:

    Earth Observation for Africa’s Development Agenda

    The four major Scientific Sub-Themes of the conference are:

    - Food and water security (Mapping Production Zones, Yield Forecast, Agricultural and Pastoral Systems, Assessing (quality and quantity) of water resources in Africa, Surface water body monitoring, Seasonal hydrological characteristics assessment, Flood forecasting).

    - Energy resources (Mapping, monitoring and management of energy resources, Power infrastructure management, etc.)

    - Disaster risk reduction (Risk assessment for sustainable development, Provision of geo-information on hazards and risks, Disaster risk reduction in national policy, Strengthening community level capacities to reduce disaster risk at the local level, Disaster Mitigation, Vulnerability to compounded disasters, Predicting vulnerability to urbanization and to climate change)

    - Marine and costal management (Resources & sustainable development; Marine ecosystem; Coastal, marine, and oceanography resources management; Assimilation, modelling and forecasting: towards ocean and coastal products and services in Africa; Quantitative indicators of risk and resilience of coastal populations; Impacts of coastal inundation on coastal ecosystems; Monitoring and modelling coastal lagoons)

  • GeOnG 2010 - 2nd Forum of Geomatic for Humanitarian Service

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    Date : September 23, 2010

    This Forum tries to be a meeting point for the actors from the humanitarian field. A place where we can meet each other, show our projects, share experiences, discover different ways of working, analyse the daily problems we find and identify the future challenges. That is to say, collaborating to improve our actions within the different contexts, humanitarian and developmental.

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  • 2010 ESRI International User Conference

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    Date : July 12, 2010

    July 12–16, at the San Diego Convention Center in California.

    For more information, click here...

  • Planet Action at the Everglades Summit - May 19-20, Washington DC

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    Date : May 19, 2010

    As Planet Action supports several projects in the Everglades, we will be represented at this important event.

    America’s Everglades Summit
    May 19 – 20, 2010
    Washington, D.C

    For more information, click here.


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