| SUB-THEMES CAG30 | SESSIONS (Including and not limited to): |
| T1. Trends in Development of Minerals in Africa | T1-S1 Strategic Mineral Resources in Africa |
| T1-S2 Geopolitics of Critical Minerals: Africa’s Role in Global Supply |
| T1-S3 Artisanal and small-scale mining in Africa |
| T1-S4 Policy and Governance in Mineral Resource Development |
| T1-S5 Environment and Social Governance |
| T1-S6 Circular Economy and SDGs |
| T2. Petroleum, Coal and Energy Resources Amidst Climate Change. | T2-S1 Petroleum resources in Africa |
| T2-S2 Role of Fossil Fuels in Africa’s Energy Transition to carbon neutral economies |
| T2-S3 Nuclear Energy as a Low-Carbon Power Source |
| T2-S4 Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS): A Path to Decarbonization |
| T3. Geothermal Development Maximizing Geothermal Energy as a Key Green Energy Resource in Africa. | T3-S1 geothermal Exploration and development |
| T3-S2 Role of the Mineral Industry in the Green Hydrogen Energy Economy |
| T3-S3 Indirect utilization of Geothermal Energy |
| T4. Geoscience Education. The Role of Geoscience Education in Promoting Development and Sustainability. | T4-S1 Exploring Geoscience Education Across Africa |
| T4-S2 Geoscience education and Outreach for All |
| T5. Sustainable Development of Groundwater Resources in Africa: Challenges and Mitigation Measures for a Better Tomorrow. | T5-S1 Hydrogeology and water sustainability under a changing climate |
| T5-S2 Groundwater Quality |
| T5-S3 Groundwater exploration |
| T5-S4 Groundwater systems, modelling and Surface water interactions |
| T5-S5 Hazards related to groundwater |
| T5-S6 Managed Aquifer Recharge |
| T6. Geo heritage, Geodiversity and Geo tourism | T6-S1 UNESCO Global Geoparks |
| T6-S2 Geo heritage and Geodiversity conservation and Management |
| T6-S3 Paleoclimate and paleoenvironment reconstruction |
T7. Mineral Resource Exploration: Tools and Techniques
| T7-S1 Innovation and integrated approaches in Geophysics |
| T7-S2- Advances in geochemical exploration techniques, data interpretation and integration |
| T7-S3 Geotechnical Techniques in mining |
| T7-S4 Mineral Resource Assessment |
| T6-S5 Sea Bed Mining |
| T8. AI and Machine learning in Geosciences in Africa. | T8-S1 Data -Driven Discovery in Geoscience |
| T8-S2 General Topics |
| T9. Pan African Orogeny, Plate Tectonics and Earth Processes | T9-S1 Pan African Orogeny |
| T9-S2 Tectonics and Earth Surface Processes in Shaping Africa’s Landscape and Climate |
| T9-S3 The Impact of Plate Tectonics on Africa’s Natural Resources |
| T9-S4 General hazards |
| T10. Ore deposit geology of Africa (Mineral Resources and ore forming processes) | T10-S1 Metallogeny and Ore Deposits in Africa |
| T10-S2 Gold Deposits: Enhanced Discovery and Development |
| T10-S3 Geological characterization and ore genesis of critical metals |
| T10-S4 New analytical techniques and equipment applied to ore deposits |
| T10-05 New Discoveries and Developments |
| T11: Engineering Geology and Geo techniques and Geohazards | T11-S1 Cross disciplinary Geo techniques for infrastructure resilience |
| T11- S2 Natural Geohazards |
| T11-S3 Human induced Hazards |
| T11-S4 Outreach and ways to increase Hazard Preparedness |
| T12 Investments and Finance | T12-S1 Investments and Finance |
| T13 Cross cutting Themes | T13-S1 GIS and Remote Sensing Applications |
| T13-S2 Digital Innovations in Geo techniques |
| T13-S3 Geological Surveys collaborations |
| T13-S4 Gender in Geosciences |
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