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This week's Science in Action (available on demand) leads with Cyclone #Freddy - its 7,500km journey across the Indian Ocean, impacts on Madagascar and southern Africa and what it bodes in a warming world. With @FaEngelbrecht from @WitsUniversity
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Like coronavirus-19 disease (COVID-19), the climate change crisis is expected to amplify health system’s weaknesses & inequalities. Mental health, a key component of health, will be impacted. https://t.co/eWInqpg2nv Download for FFREE the #WJCM ( https://t.co/DUhaFFQ2Dr)
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Had a wonderful time at the #SASAS2022 conference! Great catching up with climate scientists from across the country. Well done @FaEngelbrecht and the team from @WitsGCI for organizing!
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Keynote speaker Werner Kutsch @ICOS_RI giving a historical view of GHG measurements. #SASAS2022
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SASAS Pres @FaEngelbrecht introducing our first keynote Dr Werner Kutsch Director General @ICOS_RI speaking on GHG observations in the atmosphere.
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Participating in Africa group lead negotiators strategic discussions to focus on @COP27P ambitious outcomes that respond to the needs and challenges of Africa. @AGNChairUNFCCC @environmentza @HarryWinkler @zaheer_fakir
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Please remember to register for the SASAS Conference 2022! The final deadline to submit abstracts is Monday, 12 September 2022. Click here for more
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As part of Wits University’s focus on the intersection of climate change, sustainability & inequality, the first presentation in a seminar series was launched. Keynote by Professor Achille Mbembe: Notes on planetary habitability. Read: https://t.co/yXeOlc2Fzf
#Wits100 #Climate
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Please remember to register for the SASAS Conference 2022! The deadline to submit abstracts is next Monday, 22 August 2022. Click here for more
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The office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality at Wits will be hosting the second seminar on planetary health on the 11th of August at 9am! Please register online here: https://t.co/OsFkQP0hB3
#WitsForGood #Wits100 #ClimateChange
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If you missed @WitsGCI's Prof @FaEngelbrecht's talk on regional tipping points at the Bonn Climate Change Conference, you can catch the recording below. Jump to 23 minutes for his talk. https://t.co/WJQUxFnlkw
“Prof. Engelbrecht of the @WitsGCI will be talking on regional tipping points tonight, at the Bonn Climate Change Conference”.
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Keynote speaker Dr @mamkwa shares her expertise and experience with our fellows, on the second day of the workshop.
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Our rivers need to breathe. Witsies were at work with communities along the Kaalspruit River in Thembisa. The river is a tributary to the troubled Hennops river. Treating the problem upstream is important to relieve Hennops. #WitsForGood #SaveOurRivers #MandelaMonth #MandelaDay
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Our first official workshop! We’re in Mzimba talking to the chiefs and community members about their desirable futures, using the newly recognized by @IPBES #NatureFuturesFramework Insights include the need to go back to the past to recover a future interrupted by colonialism
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SAEON wishes to congratulate our MD, Dr. Mary Jane Bopape as one of the Humanitarian Awards Global 2022 Honorary Awardees. We are proud of Dr. Mary Jane Bopape's contributions in meteorology as part of #CR4D @AfricanClimate with CHPC @CSIR, @SAWeatherServic & @dsigovza #SADC-CI
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Abstract submission deadline for the @SAEON_GSN Indibano 2022 has been extended to the 27 of June 2022. Get your abstract submitted on https://t.co/MIp3jnyQGR
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A pleasure to host our new SAEON MD, Dr. Mary Jane Bopape at the SAEON Grasslands Node Cathedral peak research catchments. Dr. Bopape's visit entailed the use of the platform for capacity development by @ukzncwrr students that will be data users of this platform for projects.
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