CALL US: +254 20 271 4092 | EMAIL : info@atpsnet.org | WEBMAIL | ATPS ICE
ATPS
ATPS
  • Home
  • About ATPS
    • Executive Director’s Statement
    • Objectives
    • Our Approach
    • Our Structure
    • Donors and Sponsors
    • Policies and Procedures
    • Membership
    • Careers
  • Our Focus
    • ATPS Sector Priority Areas
      • Agriculture, Food and Nutrition
      • Energy
      • Climate Change and Environment
      • Health
    • ATPS Programmatic Strategic Objectives
      • STI Policy Research, Policy-Making & Advocacy
      • Training, Sensitization & Capacity Building
      • Youth & Gender Empowerment
      • Knowledge Brokerage, Management & Commercialization
      • Intra-Africa & Global Collaboration & Partnerships
  • Projects
    • Technological Innovation Development in Africa to Enhance Employability, Entrepreneurship and Job Creation (TIDE)
    • Managing Organization (Hub) for Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Agriculture and Food Systems (AI4AFS) Innovation Research Network in Africa
    • Understanding the Policy and Institutional Landscape for Technological Innovation Development in Africa to Enhance Youth Employability, Entrepreneurship and Job Creation(UPTIER)
    • Strengthening Urban REsilience in FOOD and nutrition security in Kenya (SURE-FOOD)
    • Mapping Research Infrastructure to Enhance the Resilience of Science Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
    • An Analytical Note on “Higher Education Science, Technology and Innovation, Research and Development (R&D) and Entrepreneurship in Africa”
    • First Southern Voices Network For Peace Building (SVNP) Eastern Africa Regional Policy Conference
    • Review of the Policy & Institutional Landscape for Eco-Innovation in Africa
    • An Institutional and Policy Assessment of the Agriculture Sector in Kenya – A ‘Systems-Level’ Deep Dive
    • Civic Engagement for Open Contracting
    • Mainstreaming Ecological Organic Agriculture Initiative (EOA-I) into the Agricultural Systems in Africa
    • Development of Implementation Index and, Monitoring and Tracking Tools for the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in Selected Eight Countries in Africa
    • Developing An Innovation-led BioEconomy Strategy for Eastern Africa (BISEA)
    • Bridging Climate Information Gaps to Strengthen Capacities for Climate Informed Decision-making
    • Building Partnerships and Networks among Science Granting Councils
    • RECIRCULATE: Driving Eco-Innovation in Africa: Capacity Building for a Safe Circular Water Economy
    • Air Pollution in Emerging African Mega-Cities: Sources, Evolution and Impacts Workshop
    • Market Based Approaches for the Diffusion of Clean Cooking Solutions in Kenya and Tanzania
    • Governing Inclusive Green Growth in Africa
    • Improving Agricultural Productivity and Climate Change Resilience
    • Documentation of the Impacts of ACCFP Fellows on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Africa since Inception
    • Policy Landscaping Study on Regulatory Harmonization of Registration of Veterinary Products in East Africa
    • Improving the Relevance of University Training to Labour Market Demands in Africa
    • Capacity Building on the Use of Landinfo Mobile App Technology for Extension Agents and Technical Advisors of Fiber Crops Directorate of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority (AFFA), Kenya
  • Publications
    • Working Papers
    • Special Papers
    • Research Papers
    • Technopolicy Briefs
    • Book Volumes
    • Annual Reports
    • Newsletters
    • Annual conferences and Workshop Proceedings
    • Online Journals
    • Conference/Workshop Communiques
  • National Chapters
    • Australia
    • Benin
    • Botswana
    • Burkina
    • Cameroon
    • Cote d’ Ivoire
    • Egypt
    • Ethiopia
    • Gambia
    • Ghana
    • Kenya
    • Lesotho
    • Liberia
    • Malawi
    • Mali
    • Morocco
    • Mozambique
    • Namibia
    • Nigeria
    • Rwanda
    • Sierra Leone
    • Senegal
    • South Africa
    • Sudan
    • Swaziland
    • Tanzania
    • Uganda
    • United Kingdom
    • United States of America
    • Zambia
    • Zimbabwe
  • Media Centre
    • Press Releases
    • ATPS in World News
    • Video Gallery
    • Podcasts
    • Photo Gallery
  • Blog
  • Contact Us
×
Search Results

ATPS holds a Side Event at COP 17 in Durban, South Africa.

A section of delegates at the ATPS Side Event on Making Sense of Climate Change

The United Nations Climate Change Conference that began in Durban on the 28 November 2011 has brought together representatives of all Parties as well as International Organizations and Civil Society. With a comprehensive agenda that follows the Bali Action Plan agreed at COP 13, which also includes the Cancun Decisions, the discussions are being held in two tracks, COP17 – LCA and CMP7 – KP and will seek to make progress in the implementation of the Bali Action Plan and the Kyoto Protocol.

African Technology Policy Studies Network, ATPS is represented at Durban COP 17 and has a 9 day exhibition booth at the African Pavilion to sensitize the delegates on ATPS activities and also hosted a side event on Making Sense of climate change.

The event, which was held on 1st December 2011 was attended by Government representatives, the private sector and other delegates, with speakers Prof Kevin Chika Urama, Executive Director at ATPS presenting a paper on Making Sense of Climate Science, Economics, Innovation and Politics for African Development. Other presenters were Mr. Billy Katontoka from the África Carbón Credit Exchange of Zambia presenting a paper on Innovation And Opportunities In Climate Change For Development In Africa: A Private Sector Perspective and Jeremy Webb from the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) presenting a paper on Development first: Addressing climate change and development in Africa .

In his presentation Prof Kevin Chika Urama the executive director touched on issues relating to Science Communication to address inherent complexity & uncertainties in climate science, Making Sense of Climate Economics through Policy Analyses and Exploring Alternative Development Pathways; Making Sense of Climate Innovation by Exploring opportunities for innovation and wealth creation; making Sense of Climate Politics & Policymaking through Scenario Analyses to explore the nexus; among multiple development policy objectives in Africa – poverty, ecosystem degradation, climate change among others.

He noted that the main resource challenges included increased inequities within and amongst the socio-ecological and economic systems that has led to conflicts within the systems resilience capacities; the deterioration of the environment itself driven by growth in resource consumption, that appears to be increasing the vulnerability of resource supply systems and as a result pprimary resource exporting countries tend to get poorer as the global economy expanded.

In his paper, Mr. Billy Katontoka from the África Carbón Credit Exchange of Zambia illustrated how the Combination of Science, Technologies and Innovation provided simple solutions to complex challenges.Mr Katontoka also said that Investing in the right technologies and innovations for climate change adaptation would help Africa out of poverty, address biopersity loss, water scarcity, droughts, floods, poor agricultural productivity.

He noted that Africa holds the greatest potential for most abundant clean energy. Yet natural resources such as wind, hydro power, solar power and geothermal energy are not properly harnessed for economic growth and development on the continent.

Jeremy Webb from the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) addressed climate change and development in Africa and highlighted that from climate, economic, financial, social and environmental data, information and knowledge, and taking into account the short term and long term impacts, there’s need to start with development first: focusing on how we can achieve our development goals, drawing upon our climate resilient low carbon development options

Pictorial

ATPS Executive Director, Prof .Kevin Urama Makes his presentation at the ATPS Side event  on making sense of climate change during the COP 17 conference, Durban South Africa

A section of delegates at the ATPS Side Event on Making Sense of Climate Change

ATPS Exhibition Stand with Delegates Seeking more Information on ATPS Programs

ABOUT US


ED’s Message
Objectives
Our Approach
Our Structure
Donors & Sponsors

OUR FOCUS


ATPS Sector Priority Areas
ATPS Programmatic Strategic Objectives

CONTACT US


8th Floor, The Chancery, Valley Rd., Nairobi, Kenya
P.O Box 10081 00100
Tel: 254 020 2714092
Email: info@atpsnet.org

©Copyright - 2022 - ATPS
Skip to content
Open toolbar

Accessibility Tools

  • Increase Text
  • Decrease Text
  • Grayscale
  • High Contrast
  • Negative Contrast
  • Light Background
  • Links Underline
  • Readable Font
  • Reset