Monrovia-Climate change remains an environmental cancer which has been covertly eating up the green of every nation including Liberia and the World at large. It poses a visible threat to the existence of the planet as well as humanity as a whole.

ampmali.net – 08-01-16

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Atelier de lancement des consultations des parties prenantes du WASCAL au Mali pour le programme triennal de recherche 2017-2020 pour faire face au changement climatique.

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Allafrica, 05-01-2016

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The University of The Gambia (UTG) recently organised a daylong training workshop on national consultations on the West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land use (WASCAL).

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By Isatou Senghore-Njie

The University of The Gambia (UTG) recently organised a daylong training workshop on national consultations on the West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land use (WASCAL).

The aim was to fulfill its mission as a regionally-based services centre on climate change, with a coherent research agenda that meets the needs of the people in West Africa.

The University of The Gambia (UTG) recently organised a daylong training workshop on national consultations on the West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land use (WASCAL).

The aim was to fulfill its mission as a regionally-based services centre on climate change, with a coherent research agenda that meets the needs of the people in West Africa.

It was also planned to hold national and regional consultations on the organisation’s research programme for the period 2016-2020.

Speaking at the ceremony held at the Kairaba Beach Hotel, Pa Ousman Jarju, Minister of Environment, Water Resources, Climate Change, Parks and Wildlife, said climate change is the biggest challenge of our time.

He noted that one of the reasons is because it has been established that Africa’s vulnerability to climate change is exacerbated by multiple stresses and a number of non-climate factors, including low levels of development, a high prevalence of diseases, conflicts, high dependence on rain-fed agriculture and low adaptive capacity.

He said a 1.5-2 degree warming by 2030-2040 could lead to about 40-80 per cent reduction in present maize, millet and sorghum cropping areas for current cultivars, adding that with a 3-degree warming, the reduction could grow to more than 90 per cent.

WASCAL is a large-scale research-focused programme at the climate service center designed to help address this challenge, and thereby enhance the resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change and increased variability.

It also strengthens the research infrastructure and capacity in West Africa related to climate change, and by pooling the expertise of ten West African countries and Germany, he added.

Professor MIA Khalil, UTG Vice Chancellor, said nine students from nine different West African countries graduated last month from the master’s research programme on climate change at the UTG, and they are currently recruiting for the next batch of students.

The main purpose of the meeting was to consult various groups and individuals to help identify the issues related to climate change in the country, the corresponding research needs and research gaps as contained in the reference document, he said.

Dr. Abubacarr Senghore, Minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology, said WASCAL is a regional programme on climate change education, a regional capacity building initiative aimed at improving the understanding of climate change impacts in West Africa.

He urged participants to take full advantage of the opportunity to have our research needs and gaps fully represented in the 2016-2020 WASCAL agenda.
Author: Isatou Senghore-Njie

Die Alpen und die westafrikanische Savanne haben auf den ersten Blick nicht viel gemeinsam. Doch was sie teilen, ist eine unsichere Zukunft. Beide gehören zu den mit am meisten vom Klimawandel betroffenen Regionen. Schon jetzt spüren das die Bauern in Westafrika. Das ist besonders fatal,denn die Region gilt als ein Brotkorb Afrikas. Deswegen braucht es dort zuverlässige Klimamodelle für die Zukunft. Daran arbeiten gerade Wissenschaftler am Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung in Garmisch-Partenkirchen – zusammen mit Kollegen aus Afrika.

Il y a quelques semaines, le monde avait les yeux rivés sur Paris où se dérouler la Confé­rence internationale sur le climat (Cop21). Le Centre régional de services fondés sur les sciences relatives au changement climatique (Wascal) a organisé, hier, des consultations nationales sur les conséquences du changement climatique. Il s’agit de mettre en place un programme de recherche «cohérent» allant de 2016 à 2020 et qui va prendre en compte les besoins et les préoccupations des agriculteurs, des éleveurs, des pêcheurs.

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Il y a quelques semaines, le monde avait les yeux rivés sur Paris où se dérouler la Confé­rence internationale sur le climat (Cop21).

AllAfrica/SudQuotidien, 22-12-2015

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Le West africain science service center on climate change and adapted land use (Wascal) a entamé hier, lundi 21 décembre, une consultation nationale.