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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VIRTUAL EVENT: FFA2021 Annual Conference – Food System Renewal

Francois Stepman posted Information | 26 March 2021

23 March 2021. FFA2021 Annual Conference – Food System Renewal. The annual conference of the Forum for the Future of Agriculture takes place every spring in Brussels. This year the annual conference is online through a virtual platform. The purpose of the Forum is to stimulate open discussions on...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Squaring the circle: how to increase prosperity while cutting emissions

Justine Marchal posted Information | 24 March 2021

Solomon Islands “Climate change is not the cause of inequality. Populations have always been divided between the haves and have-nots, whereas the climate change emergency we now face is a relatively recent threat. But what is clear is that if those at the bottom of the pile are repeatedly hit by...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Mangrove reforestation against biodiversity loss in Pakistan

Justine Marchal posted Information | 15 March 2021

Protecting and restoring Mangroves’ decline has been declared a top priority agenda by the major global bodies’ initiatives are working to address global Climate change issues in the Indus delta region, the European Union’s flagship programme Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (GCCA+). Dr .Mahmood...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
EC-UNEP Regional Dialogue: Latin America and the Carribean - Opening Session

Alexa Froger created a new event | 10 March 2021

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Organised by European Commission and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

This regional dialogue on cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is organized in the context of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the European Commission (EC) andUnited Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and its new Annex for collaboration in 2021-2025. The EC-UNEP MoU...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Green Development News #16

Patricia Rodriguez Fortun posted Information | 8 March 2021

Our Green Development News bulletin #16 is out with an important focus on the Green Deal as an integral part of the European Union’s response to the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement, and as a roadmap for a green and inclusive recovery within development cooperation programming for 2021-2027...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Conversation on the Human Development Report 2020

Francois Stepman posted Information | 8 March 2021

8 March 2021. UNDP and the European Commission jointly organized a virtual discussion around the Human Development Report 2020, ‘The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene’ and implications for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The COVID-19 crisis is exposing and...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
The Guardians of Life: Women at the forefront of climate action

Justine Marchal updated the Document | 8 March 2021

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Women are critical drivers of climate action, as leaders, decision makers, educators and role models. But they are also innovators, risk takers, entrepreneurs and wealth creators. Around the world, women are transforming lives and livelihoods blighted by climate change. All too often, women remain...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
The Guardians of Life: Women at the forefront of climate action

Justine Marchal posted Information | 8 March 2021

Discover the In-Depth story The Guardians of Life: Women at the forefront of climate action Women are critical drivers of climate action, as leaders, decision makers, educators and role models. But they are also innovators, risk takers, entrepreneurs and wealth creators. Around the world, women are...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
The first UNEP synthesis report: "Making Peace With Nature: A scientific blueprint to tackle the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies"

Alexa Froger uploaded a new Document | 3 March 2021

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The first UNEP synthesis report is titled: “Making Peace With Nature: A scientific blueprint to tackle the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies” and is based on evidence from global environmental assessments. The resulting synthesis communicates how climate change, biodiversity loss and...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Latin American, Caribbean ministers commit to build back better and greener

Alexa Froger posted Information | 3 March 2021

Bridgetown, Barbados, February 2, 2021 - The Ministers of the Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean today signed the Bridgetown Declaration , in which they called for the integration of environmental issues to be placed at the heart of the region’s COVID-19 recovery strategies, with...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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