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Accra Ghana, 1st July 2026 HON. DR. KANDEH KOLLEH YUMKELLA APPOINTED PATRON OF WASCAL Former UN Under-Secretary-General to champion West Africa’s climate action, resource mobilisation and just energy transition. WASCAL Continue Reading

WASCAL WISHES ITS FORMER HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER A HAPPY RETIREMENT

1st July 2026 The WASCAL family celebrates and honours our former Human Resource Manager, Theresa Aniagyei-Bonsu, for a well-deserved retirement after thirteen (13) years of dedicated service – from 2013 Continue Reading

WASCAL AND SASSCAL ALUMNI SHARE HOW GRADUATE EDUCATION IS TRANSFORMING CLIMATE LEADERSHIP IN AFRICA

18th May, 2026 By Peace Ahovi The hybrid room came alive with inspiring stories, practical experiences, and powerful reflections as WASCAL and SASSCAL convened a joint webinar on “Advancing African Continue Reading

TRAINING WEST AFRICA’S FUTURE CLIMATE SCIENTISTS AT SEA

10th June 2026 By Peace Ahovi The WASCAL Floating University, a mobile, sea-based training and research initiative conducted aboard the research vessel “FS POLARSTERN”, is transforming climate science education by Continue Reading

WHO WE ARE

WASCAL (West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use) is a large-scale research-focused Climate Service Centre designed to help tackle this challenge and thereby enhance the resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change and increased variability. It does so by strengthening the research infrastructure and capacity in West Africa related to climate change and by pooling the expertise of ten West African countries and Germany.

OUR MISSION

To provide information and knowledge at the local, national, and regional levels to its West African member countries to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change and devise integrated mid and long-term options to build up resilient and productive socio-ecological landscapes. We do this through capacity building and environmental services in West Africa