by pennyurquhart | Feb 27, 2017 | Africa, climate change, climate conversations
Photo: Penny Urquhart Dr. Balgis Osman Elasha is Climate Change Specialist in the Compliance and Safeguard Division of the African Development Bank (AfDB). As well as her considerable international exposure, which includes authoring chapters of several IPCC...
by pennyurquhart | Jan 23, 2017 | climate conversations, Uncategorized
“It’s very easy to make a desert, but very difficult to go back” Professor Karoli Njau is a Tanzanian environmental engineering water expert who grew up in the foothills of Kilimanjaro. He is Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor: Academic Research and Innovation at the...
by pennyurquhart | Nov 1, 2016 | climate conversations, climate governance, Uncategorized
Earlier this year I became fascinated by the idea of having a different kind of conversation about climate change, as a way to move forward and break the cognitive dissonance spoken of elsewhere on this blog – we do not doubt, in most circles, the reality of climate...
