UN-SPIDER guidelines for ACPC Climate Activities

05 October 2009, 3:40am

UNOOSA/ UN-SPIDER partook of a consultation group composed of African regional co-operators (OSS, ACMAD, ICPAC) and various international players (NASA/SERVIR, UNEP) during the Economic Commission for Africa’s Consultative Meeting on Climate Activities Database, held in Addis Ababa, from 1-2 September 2009. Recent developments have seen the African Union Commission, the Economic Commission for Africa and the African Development Bank initiating the ClimDev programme, under which was established the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) to coordinate and strengthen policy response to climate change. Among ACPC’s pressing needs was a dedicated Climate Activities Database (CADb) to support the work of ACPC’s scientists and discipline specialists. Hence, the main aim of the meeting was to provide a forum to learn from selected institutions and individuals who have had experience in managing similar databases. During the work sessions, discussions tapped into the need for a coherent seamless and up-to-date spatially enabled information system. Immediate actions included maintaining communications within the group through an online forum, and secondly, given the low bandwidth available at ECA, exploring the possibility of hosting CADb’s feature services at the UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER facilities in Bonn.

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