NEWS & UPDATES

INDEPENDENT GLOBAL STOCKTAKE (IGST) WEST AFRICA REGIONAL HUB LAUNCHED

The Independent Global Stocktake (IGST), West Africa has been launched in Ouagadougou. After a successful organization of six (6) national workshops across West Africa, to co-design the roadmap of the operationalization of the West African regional hub in the last three months, members of the iGST West Africa Regional Hub have met in in Ouagadougou Continue Reading

WASCAL DONATES 5 WATER LEVEL SENSORS TO WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Accra, Ghana WASCAL has donated four (4) automatic water level sensors and one (1) water quality sensor to the Water Research Institute in Accra. This contribution aims to address the challenges of hydrological data availability and collection in the West African region and facilitate research, capacity building, and service development in the face of Climate Continue Reading

WASCAL BUILDING CAPACITIES FOR WELL-QUALIFIED PROFESSIONALS IN GREEN HYDROGEN

Mrs. Oda Keppler, Head of Sub-division Sustainability from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF) has stated that for green hydrogen to be a success, the sector needs well-qualified professionals and that the selection of the WASCAL first batch of green hydrogen scholars in West Africa was a step in the right direction, Continue Reading

AFRICAN SCIENTISTS CONVERGE TO DISCUSS SOLUTIONS TO ADAPT TO AND MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

African scientists under the umbrella of the “Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network for Climate Action in Africa (RAINCA)” met in Kampala, Uganda, from 3 to 5 April 2023. The meeting was an Orientation programme for Principal Investigators (PIs) of the grantees of the RAINCA initiative for the implementation of independent research projects in different sectors such Continue Reading

WHO WE ARE

WASCAL (West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use) is a large-scale research-focused Climate Service Centre designed to help tackle this challenge and thereby enhance the resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change and increased variability. It does so by strengthening the research infrastructure and capacity in West Africa related to climate change and by pooling the expertise of ten West African countries and Germany.

OUR MISSION

To provide information and knowledge at the local, national, and regional levels to its West African member countries to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change and devise integrated mid and long-term options to build up resilient and productive socio-ecological landscapes. We do this through capacity building and environmental services in West Africa