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

High level panel on Climate Change, Environment and Migration - report available

Jo De Backer posted Information | 12 May 2015

2015 is the “year of climate” with the major UNFCCC climate negotiations to take place in November/December 2015 in Paris, with significant implications for IOM’s work on human mobility in relation to climate and environmental change. In recognition of the increasing significance of the migration,...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
High level panel on Climate Change, Environment and Migration - Thematic Global Report

Jo De Backer uploaded a new Document | 12 May 2015

iom_council_2014_-_mecc_thematic_global_report_final_0.pdf 1.45 MB

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Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) to accelerate geothermal power: Lessons from Kenya

Florent Martin updated the Information | 8 May 2015

The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) is pleased to share a new Inside Story, Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) to accelerate geothermal power: Lessons from Kenya , which looks at the Government of Kenya’s ambitions to significantly expand its power supply from...

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WASH and Climate Resilient Development (CRD)

Florent Martin updated the Information | 8 May 2015

Dear all I do not come here regularly enough to know about the culture in this group and the width of topics we are comfortable with, hence my questions below: Would working on integrating Climate Resilient Development (CRD) into WASH strategic planning and sector management fall within the scope...

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AfroMaison - INRM challenges, responses, insights

Florent Martin updated the Document | 8 May 2015

afromaison_-_inrm_challenges_responses_insights.pdf 171.67 KB

Based on a set of highly diverse case studies spread across Africa, AfroMaison (FP7-AFRICA-2010) has explored challenges and barriers for putting INRM into practice and proposes adequate approaches and tools to address these. The lessons learnt are summarizes in 10 key insights.

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Better use of long-term climate information could reduce risks for African investments

Florent Martin updated the Document | 8 May 2015

cdkn_fcfa_synthesis.pdf 1.75 MB

African governments and businesses are putting their investments at risk from the long-term impacts of climate change because they are failing to take climate information into account, says a new report from the Overseas Development Institute and SouthSouthNorth for the Future Climate For Africa (...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Deep Decarbonization Pathway Project

Florent Martin updated the Document | 8 May 2015

ddpp_2014_report.pdf 8.51 MB

PRESENTATION The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) is an initiative launched by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN, unsdsn.org ) and the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI). The DDPP is a collaborative initiative to understand and...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
How well do US cities support access to jobs by transit, walking?

Florent Martin updated the Document | 8 May 2015

cts14-11.pdf 4.96 MB

The following maps show summary accessibility data and maps for each of the 46 metropolitan areas included in the study. The maps show 30-minute accessibility values at the Census block level. Lighter colors indicate few jobs can be reached within 30 minutes; darker colors indicate more jobs can be...

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IOM Environmental Migration Newsletter:

Florent Martin updated the Document | 8 May 2015

2014sept1-issue.pdf 848.48 KB

We are pleased to share a new issue of IOM’s Environmental Migration Newsletter focused on Small Islands States (SIDS), Migration and Climate Change celebrating the launch of the SIDS Samoa Conference and in preparation of the forthcoming UN SG Climate Summit.

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Improving Access to Climate Finance for Small and Vulnerable States - A Report of the Commonwealth Expert Group on Climate Finance

Florent Martin updated the Document | 8 May 2015

report_of_the_commonwealth_expert_group_on_climate_finance.pdf 7.26 MB

The Commonwealth Expert Group on Climate Finance was asked to examine how the Commonwealth can best assist its developing country members, particularly Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and other particularly vulnerable states, to improve their access to...

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