Climate change, disaster risk reduction & desertification

Environment and ecosystem management are key to ensuring urban and rural development and progress towards the achievement of the MDGs. Poor communities directly depend on natural resources for their livelihood and are the most vulnerable to a degraded environment, natural disasters and are the first to suffer from polluted air, water and soil. Sound natural resource use is at the core of effective strategies to strengthen resilience to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Adaptation - Climate Change - Clean energy technology - Climate finance - Climate smart agriculture - Desertification/land degradation - Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) - Drought - Flood prevention/control - Mitigation

Beating famine. Southern Africa Conference – Sustainable Food Security through Land Regeneration in a Changing Climate

Sarah Cummings created a new event | 23 March 2015

14 Apr

From 14 April 2015 to 17 April 2015
in Lilongwe (Malawi)

Organised by World Agroforestry Centre, World Vision and other partners

A Southern Africa regional Beating Famine conference [1] will be held in Lilongwe, Malawi from 14 to 17 April 2015 to highlight how widespread land degradation in the face of climate change could affect food security in the region. Organized by the World Agroforestry Centre, World Vision and other...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Ahead of World Water Day, UN Calls for Better Management of Water Resources

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 21 March 2015

The impacts of our increasingly stressed global water resources can be felt by almost everyone. Nairobi/New Delhi/Paris, 20 March 2015 - The planet is facing a 40 per cent shortfall in water supply by 2030, unless we dramatically improve the management of this precious resource. This is the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Ahead of World Water Day, UN Calls for Better Management of Water Resources

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 20 March 2015

The impacts of our increasingly stressed global water resources can be felt by almost everyone. Nairobi/New Delhi/Paris, 20 March 2015 - The planet is facing a 40 per cent shortfall in water supply by 2030, unless we dramatically improve the management of this precious resource. This is the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Workshop on “Indicators and data for Climate resilient Development: from data to information and knowledge to policy actions"

Capacity4dev Team updated the event | 20 March 2015

25 Mar

From 25 March 2015 to 26 March 2015
in Bruxelles (Belgium)

Organised by EU JRC - DEVCO

Identification of a core set indicators and data sets with a global coverage for the key determinants of climate resilient development (natural hazards related to climate change, vulnerability, adaptive capacity, mitigation, resilience, and development) to guide policy actions in this area.

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Wrap-up Day Two and Three

Minielle Tall uploaded a new Document | 20 March 2015

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Programme: Intra-ACP Agricultural Policy
Recap from Day one contributions

Minielle Tall uploaded a new Document | 20 March 2015

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Programme: Intra-ACP Agricultural Policy
World Conference Adopts New International Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction After Marathon Negotiations

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 20 March 2015

First major agreement of the Post-2015 development agenda reached at landmark UN Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. One of the largest storms to ever make landfall, Haiyan affected some 9.5 million people in the Philippines and caused widespread destruction and displacement in November 2013...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Project: Informs business investment against climate change risk

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 19 March 2015

Businesses must consider the true financial costs of climate change in order to better prepare for the future, according to the authors of a new climate change adaptation report prepared for one of the United Kingdom’s largest social housing providers. As part of an Innovate UK project led by the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
IOM Joins Response to Cyclone Pam Devastation in Vanuatu

Jo De Backer posted Information | 19 March 2015

"IOM’s Director General, William Lacy Swing, immediately released a USD 100,000 grant from IOM’s Migration Emergency Funding Mechanism. The outlay will pay for hygiene kits and shelter materials for the most vulnerable islanders." Read here .

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
The Oxford Adaptation Academy

Lesley Downing created a new event | 19 March 2015

09 Aug

From 9 August 2015 to 28 August 2015
in Oxford (United Kingdom)

Organised by Joint venture: Smith School at Oxford University and the Global Climate Adaptation Partnership (GCAP)

The Oxford Adaptation Academy is a residential course that integrates three learning themes: -Participants' role as change makers, in their own careers and organisations -Adaptation as a process linking climate science, vulnerability and decision making -Technical skills in analysing adaptation...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy

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