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New publication on the greenhouse gas emission trends across Africa over the last 3 decades

Earlier in January, a new review article written by Mounia Mostefaoui and colleagues was published in Earth System Science Data.

The aim of the publication was to assess African anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and removals by using different data products, including inventories and process-based models, and to compare their relative merits with inversion data coming from satellites. Their results show a good match among the various estimates in terms of overall trends at a regional level and on a decadal basis, but large differences even among similar data types, which is a limit to the possibility of verification of country-reported data.

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Call for session proposals is now open for ICOS Science Conference 2024!

The organisers are excited to invite the scientific and research community to propose sessions for the ICOS Science Conference 2024!

ICOS Science Conference 2024 will be a hybrid event held at the Versailles Palais des Congrès, France, and virtually on 10-12 September, 2024.

The overarching theme of the conference is “From GHG observations through science to services”.

How to submit a session proposal

Please send your session proposal in the following format:

  • Title of the session
  • Name of convener/co-convener(s) (affiliation and email) willing to review abstracts
  • Session description (max. 200 words)

Send your submissions, along with any questions you may have, to our conference team via email at conference@icos-ri.eu.

Submissions will be considered on their scientific merits and the significance of their respective themes. If accepted, they will be incorporated into the final programme.

The deadline for submissions is noon (12:00CET) in Thursday 23rd of November, 2023.

You can see examples of potential session themes on the ICOS Science Conference page.

How to reduce Africa’s undue exposure to climate risks

A new article recently published in Nature highlighted the ways Africa is being disproportionately impacted by climate change induced extreme weather. The authors, including KADI project partner Patricia Nying’uro from Kenya Meteorological Department, also suggested solutions and next steps for climate risk reduction.

“Our new paper highlights that in order to cushion African countries from the impacts of severe or extreme weather events, there urgently needs to be an improvement in the density of observation stations across the continent” says Patricia. “Additionally, research funding should address gaps in data collection and analysis, and data must be publicly available, easily accessible and shared with African governments and intergovernmental organizations”, she adds.

This aligns with our work in KADI where identifying operational capabilities of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services in Africa as well as outlining ideal Research Infrastructure are the first steps towards developing solutions to address data and research gaps.

You can read the full article by clicking here.