CarboAfrica Secretariat is very pleased to announce the next CarboAfrica Conference "Toward a biophysical carbon accounting in Africa." This meeting will be held at the hotel Elais (info.pn@hotelelais.com), Boulevard du Général de Gaulle, Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo from 17 to 19 March 2010. The conference on Africa and Carbon Cycle will be an important occasion to improve knowledges in the field of forestry, carbon cycle and climate change. African and international experts (at scientific and institutional level) will be invited and an audience or around 100 people is expected.

Conference themes are: (1) Terrestrial Carbon Observations capabilities in Africa; (2) Ecosystem fluxes; (3) Biogeochemical modelling; (4) Soil, carbon and GHG emissions; (5)  Impact of vegetation fires on GHG budget; (6) Carbon sequestration and reduced emissions (CDM & REDD) Capacities development and demonstration projects in Africa.

Deadline for registration and paper submission should be 19 February 2010. The website of the conference is available for your registration: Open Science Conference "Toward a biophysical carbon accounting in Africa and perspectives for REDD and CDM"

Please download information concerning the logistic here

For more information, please contact: CarboAfrica@fao.org or Sandrine.Gerboin@fao.org or Paola.Cardenas@fao.org or Antonio.Bombelli@fao.org

For any information related to the venue in Congo, please contact: standre@cirad.fr or yves.nouvellet@cirad.fr; blandine.caquet@cirad.fr