Call for Papers: AFRICA 2030- STREGHTENING THE CAPACITY OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES TO HANDLE
THE CHALLENGES OF A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
Nairobi, Kenya 23rd-24th January 2020, Deadline for abstracts: 30th May 2019

It is widely known that Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change. As the
Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
has shown, climate change is expected to have widespread impacts on African societies, and
Africans’ interaction with the natural environment. There are also signs that the impacts of
climate change are already being felt, not only in terms of increases in temperature, but also
in respect of agriculture (with lower crop yields) and the availability of water resources, among
others. The links between climate change and the incidence of diseases -such as malaria- are also
becoming clearer.

The above state of affairs illustrates the need for a better understanding of how climate change
affects African countries, and for the identification of processes, methods and tools which may help African
nations to adapt. There is also a perceived need to showcase successful examples of how to cope with the
social, economic and political problems posed by climate change in Africa.

It is against this background that the Symposium “2nd SYMPOSIUM ON CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN AFRICA”
is being organised by the University of Nairobi (Kenya), Manchester Metropolitan University (UK),
the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” of
the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and the International Climate Change
Information and Research Programme (ICCIRP) https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/programmes/iccirp/.
It follows the first, highly successful Symposium held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 21-23 February 2016.

Under the title ”AFRICA 2030- STREGHTENING THE CAPACITY OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES TO HANDLE THE CHALLENGES
OF A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT”, the event will discuss the means via which African nations may foster
their resilience and their capacity to adapt, meaning that it will serve the purpose of
showcasing experiences from research, field projects and best practice in climate change adaptation
in African countries, which may be useful or implemented in other countries in the continent.

The Symposium will be a truly interdisciplinary event, organised in the framework of the
2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, and Agenda 2036 of the African Union,
mobilising African and non-African scholars undertaking research and/or executing climate
change projects in the African continent.

Consistent with the need for more cross-sectoral interactions among the various stakeholders working
in the field of climate change adaptation in the African continent, the aims of the Symposium
are as follows:

I. to provide research institutions, universities, NGOs and enterprises from Africa and those working
in Africa with an opportunity to display and present their works in the field of climate change adaptation;

II. to foster the exchange of information, ideas and experiences acquired in the execution of
climate change adaptation projects, especially successful initiatives and good practice across the African
continent;

III. to discuss methodological approaches and experiences deriving from case studies and projects, which
aim to show how climate change adaptation may be implemented in practice;

IV. to network the participants and provide a platform so they can explore possibilities for
cooperation.

Last but not least, a further aim of the event will be to document and disseminate the wealth
of experiences available today. To this purpose, the “African Handbook of Climate Change
Adaptation: learning, sharing and advancing efforts to promote climate change adaptation in Africa”
will be published, with all accepted papers. This will be a further volume of the award-winning
book series “Climate Change Management”  https://www.springer.com/series/8740
published by Springer, which since its creation in 2008
has become the world´s leading book series on climate change management.

Deadline for abstracts: 30th May 2019

Further details on the event can be seen at: https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/events/africa2020.html.