The Interconnections for Making Africa Great, Empowered and Sustainable (IMAGES) Initiative in collaboration with Africa Circular Economy Research and Policy Network (ACERPiN) is organizing Circularity Africa Conference 2022, themed ‘Paradoxes of Natural Resources in Africa’. The Conference aims at engaging stakeholders on circular economy as one of the foundational moves in charting the course of future development in a sustainable manner. Circularity Africa Conference is the first of its kind in the Continent, and features Keynote addresses, plenary sessions, Awards, Exhibitions, Tour, Paper presentations, and Networking.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dr Daniel Sakyi
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Dr Sandra Caeiro
Universidade Aberta and Centre for Environmental and Sustainability Research, NOVA
University of Lisbon, Portugal
The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 12 envisions that sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources would be achieved by 2030. The indicators of measurement of progress include, material footprint per gross domestic product (GDP) as well as domestic material consumption per GDP. The African continent is well endowed with natural resources. However, there are indications that the continent is less efficient in the management and use of its abundant natural resources. Perhaps, the situation has led to perceived resource curse in the continent.
It is on this background that the 3rd annual Circularity Africa Conference seeks to explore issues around the following sub-themes:
- Natural resource management and economic growth
- Green growth and green economy
- Material consumption, recycling and waste management
- Institutions, frameworks, and policies to support sustainable production and consumption
- Safety standard and hazardous waste treatment
- Green bonds and financial technologies
- Measuring progress in sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
- Bioeconomy and green jobs
- Blue economy and ecosystem functions
- Resource-based assessment metrics
- Extractivism and remediation
- Resource recovery and value retention
- Renewable energy and green hydrogen
- Education for circularity
- Natural resources, climate change and environmental sustainability
- Artificial intelligence and robotics
- Agri-green management, food, nutrition and food safety
- Manufacturing and eco-industrialization
- Cities and circularity
- Food-Energy-Water nexus
- Mineral resources and beneficiation
- Value chains and international marketing mechanisms
- Decoupling and delinking from oil and gas
- Trade agreements, divestment, and illicit flows
- Gender dimensions of natural resources management
Date: 11-13 May 2022
Venue: International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, and Virtual (Zoom)
Language: English & French
Program Manual: Click here to download
Submission of abstracts and full papers:
Abstract (200 to 300 words in length) should draw on empirical research with clear implications for policy design and implementations relating to the natural resources management and circular economy. Case studies are encouraged.
Selected papers will be processed for publication as Special Issue in Business Strategy and Development (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/25723170) which will be released in December 2022.
Timelines:
| Abstract submission opens (for oral/poster presentation or exhibition) | 01 September 2021 |
| Abstract submission closes | 31 January 2022 |
| Notification of acceptance | 15 February 2022 |
| Submission of full paper for Business & Strategy Development Journal (optional) | 15 March 2022 |
| Conference* | 11 – 13 May 2022 |
Benefits of Participation:
- Membership of Africa Circular Economy Research and Policy Network (ACERPiN)
- Access to all sessions
- Publication of abstracts with ISBN (hard copy and online versions)
- Idea pitching and mentorship sessions
- Exhibitions
- Circularity tour (optional)
- Journal publication (Business Strategy and Development) (optional)
ENQUIRIES
Email: acerpin@imagesinitiatives.org, imagesinitiative@gmail.com
Telephone/Whatsapp: +2348035973449, +2348079905067, +234802440457
Scientific Committee
| Dr Olawale E. Olayide
President, IMAGES Initiative & Research Fellow, University of Ibadan, Nigeria |
Prof. Walter J.V. Vermeulen
Environmental Governance, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| Dr Desalegn Ayal
Center for Food Security Studies |
Prof. Zengwei Yuan
Department of Environmental Planning and Management, School of the Environment Nanjing University, China |
| Dr Omobolaji Obisesan
IMAGES Initiative |
Dr Denis Ouedraogo
University of Bobo-Dioulass, Burkina Faso |
| Dr Kyle Frankel Davis
University of Delaware, United States of America |
Prof. Pauline Deutz
Department of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, University of Hull, United Kingdom |
| Prof. Hussein Tahir Sulieman
Centre for Remote Sensing & GIS, University of Gadarif Gadarif, Sudan |
Dr Aminou Arouna
Policy, Innovation Systems & Impact Assessment, AfricaRice, Abidjan Cote D’Ivoire |
| Dr Nyamulinda Birasa
University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda |
Prof. Raphael Babatunde
University of Ilorin, Nigeria |
| Prof. Fatou Gueye
Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal |
Dr Greenwell Matchaya
International Water Management Institute, Pretoria, South Africa
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