African countries need funding, skilled staff, and technology to make adaptation happen.
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Les pays africains sont beaucoup trop dépendants de l'importation de principes actifs pharmaceutiques.
African countries are too dependent on importation of active pharmaceutical ingredients.
In Zambia, a project using local materials to build houses, instead of imported steel and concrete, resulted in benefits for small businesses and artisans.
The language and speech technology has been developed to provide linguistic accuracy and is grounded in teaching principles.
If you cannot communicate a concept clearly, then you don’t understand it well enough yourself.
A regulatory approach will place an unnecessary burden on bio-innovators. This will discourage local investment for in-house R&D, as well as projects in the public sector.
To improve air quality, a combination of efforts is needed including reducing Eskom’s emissions, investing in cleaner sources of energy, and reducing emissions.
Address data are maintained in silos at different government entities. There is limited coordination and adherence to international standards; good practice is lacking around information management.
By opening data, monitoring and reporting on air quality can be complemented by data from various sources to create more localised and relevant decision-support solutions.
The study of two hospitals was a first for researching the microbiology of the built environment in South Africa – a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding how to design healthier buildings.
The science to policy process that was developed to guide climate mitigation decisions can be applied to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, without having to be reinvented.
The danger of fires in the Cape region this season is partly dependent on how the Fynbos has been managed over the past few decades.
South Africa needs to review its approach to rolling out Bus Rapid Transit systems as the current model is proving to be too expensive and unsustainable.
South Africa has been considering shale gas development in the Karoo region. The gas, will be expensive to explore and extract, will be used as part of the country’s energy mix.
The Agulhas Current is important to South Africa for a variety of reasons. Studying how it impacts the coast has been difficult using traditional methods. But gliders are changing that.
Africa has largely been ignored when it comes to official global air quality programmes. Yet low-income countries like many of those in Africa are particularly affected by air pollution.
South Africa has the opportunity to benefit from its ocean economy. But to do that, the country needs to put better policies in place to counter ocean acidification.
Africa must find ways of dealing with extreme heatwaves or suffer a range of health problems, including fatalities.
South Africa has been experiencing odd weather patterns during the month of November. It can be attributed to three culprits.
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Principal Researcher, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Research Scientist and Climate Action Specialist, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Lead: Holistic Climate Change Impact Area, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Principal Researcher, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Principal Researcher Ecosystem services assessment and mapping, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Research Group Leader, Climate Studies and Modelling and Environmental Health, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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PhD Candidate in Transportation Planning, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Sustainability scientist, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Senior Lecturer, Researcher, Architect, Healthy building specialist, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Architect, Researcher, Professor, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Senior Researcher, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Principal Scientist, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Impact Area Manager for Inclusive Smart Settlements and Regions, CSIR and Visiting Professor at the School of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, Wits University, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Senior Researcher, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Senior researcher in the Information and Cyber Security Centre within the Defence and Security cluster, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research