{"id":20871,"date":"2016-05-11T08:29:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T12:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?p=20871"},"modified":"2025-07-10T10:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:34:35","slug":"africa-tackling-impact-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/2016\/africa-tackling-impact-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"OUT OF AFRICA: Tackling the Impact of Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        OUT OF AFRICA: Tackling the Impact of Climate Change\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 4th,&nbsp;Carleton\u2019s Institute for African Studies hosted a conference on &#8220;From Climate Change to Environmental Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for Africa and Canada&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/2016\/africa-tackling-impact-climate-change\/beth\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20874\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"199\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/Beth.jpg\" alt=\"Beth\" class=\"wp-image-20874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/Beth.jpg 199w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/Beth-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PhD candidate&nbsp;Beth Mburu and PhD graduate Chris Higgins both presented at this conference.<br>\nRead more in an&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/our-stories\/story\/out-of-africa\/\">article<\/a>&nbsp;written by Dan Rubinstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 4th,&nbsp;Carleton\u2019s Institute for African Studies hosted a conference on &#8220;From Climate Change to Environmental Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for Africa and Canada&#8221;. PhD candidate&nbsp;Beth Mburu and PhD graduate Chris Higgins both presented at this conference. Read more in an&nbsp;article&nbsp;written by Dan Rubinstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31952,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20871\/revisions\/31952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}