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High level conference on Challenges for Energy Security in Namibia and Southern Africa
High level conference on Challenges for Energy Security in Namibia and Southern Africa, 11 September 2014 at the NamPower Convention Centre, Windhoek, Namibia. From left to right: Hon. Ben Amathila, Member of Parliament, Republic of Namibia; Dr Bernd Althusmann,...
SIDS Conference will not address issues of environmental refugees
August 29, 2014 | Post-2015 | By Elke Weesjes UNITED NATIONS, MEDIAGLOBAL News – The Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which will kick off in just a few days, will not address the issue of creating a new category of...
High Level Climate Finance Awareness Raising Event, Windhoek, Namibia
DROP Programme Manager, Prof. Oliver Ruppel, attended the High Level Climate Finance Awareness Raising Event, Windhoek, Namibia on 13 Aug 2014. From left to right: Prof. Dr. Oliver Ruppel, professor of law and Director of DROP at the University of Stellenbosch, South...
High Level Climate Finance Awareness Raising Event, Windhoek, Namibia
The event aims to raise awareness on climate change related challenges for Namibia and climate finance opportunities, specifically with the view to the Green Climate Fund (GCF); present ongoing MET activities on climate finance, including the National Climate Change...
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Calls for More Attention on Human Mobility
Read Prof. Ruppel's article on human migration based on the IPCC's recently launched 5th Assessment Report (AR5) on Climate Change. For the full article: CLICK HERE
Programme Manager presents on Climate Change, human vulnerability and impacts
The DROP Programme Manger presented a paper on "Climate Change, human vulnerability and impacts" last week at the Nansen Initiative Regional Consultation, Natural Hazards, Climate Change and Cross-Border Displacement in the Greater Horn of Africa: Protecting People on...
Prof. Ruppel appointed as Sahel Consortium Member
DROP is happy to announce that Prof. Ruppel, the Programme Manager, has been appointed to the Sahel Consortium. A research project on the Sahel is necessary and urgent. The region is getting more and more unstable, as is the risk of seeing the number of failed and...
DROP Programme Director: “Climate threat to Africa’s resilience”
By Denis McClean ABUJA, 16 May 2014 - A disaster-resilient future for Africa will have to take account of the fact that it is the region of the world that will suffer the most from climate change and which struggles the most when it comes to capacity to manage present...
DROP at the Institute for African Development, Cornell University
New York - 26 April 2014 Oliver Ruppel, Director of the Development and Rule of Law Program (DROP) and Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Stellenbosch University, South Africa delivered a lecture entitled: The BRICS Partnership from a South African Perspective:...
IPCC Report: A changing climate creates pervasive risks but opportunities exist for effective responses
YOKOHAMA, Japan, 31 March – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a report today that says the effects of climate change are already occurring on all continents and across the oceans. The world, in many cases, is ill-prepared for risks from a...