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Climate Change

Loss and damage: How can culture and heritage loss be measured and addressed?

Prof Kwasi Appeaning Addo, the director of the Institute was among the experts who met at the British Academy Conference on heritage loss and Damage from climate change that was held at the University of East Anglia, in the United Kingdom. The Conference had speakers from different countries across the globe including Ghana, Mauritania, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and the UK detailing the telling effect of climate change on culture and heritage.

Coastal Community Resilience to Climate & Diarrhoea project holds first meeting

IESS hosted the first general meeting to mark the beginning of the Coastal Community Resilience to Climate and Diarrhoea (C2R-CD) project. The C2R-CD is a five-year transdisciplinary research aimed at generating knowledge in support of resilience building to climate change and improved diarrhoeal management in coastal communities.

“Nkitahodie”: Policy dialogue with political parties on the Paris Climate Change Agreement

"Nkitahodie": Policy dialogue with political parties

The much anticipated, interesting and interactive “Nkitahodie” policy dialogue with political parties on the Paris Climate Change Agreement organised by the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP took place at the Alisa hotel in Accra on 27th October, 2016.