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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REPORT+WEBINAR: Becoming #GenerationRestoration: Ecosystem Restoration for People, Nature and Climate

Francois Stepman posted Information | 18 June 2021

UNEP (2021). Becoming #GenerationRestoration: Ecosystem Restoration for People, Nature and Climate Nairobi. 56 pp. The report, as well as all related documents, including the Key Messages in all UN languages and various communication productsare accessible at this link . World Environment Day UN...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
WEBINAR: Africa's Great Green Wall: Can cities take it to new heights?

Francois Stepman posted Information | 18 June 2021

25 May 2021. This interactive session introduced the phenomenon known as The Great Green Wall or Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel and investigated and explored the crucial role that cities can potentially play. Cities, being at the forefront of development and modern life as we know it...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
REPORT+WEBINAR: Global Report on Food Crises 2021: Building resilience to prevent food crises and conflict

Francois Stepman posted Information | 17 June 2021

17 June 2021. Global Report on Food Crises 2021: Building resilience to prevent food crises and conflict. The 2021 Global Report on Food Crises (published by the Food Security Information Network for the Global Network Against Food Crises) finds that at least 155 million people experienced acute...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
WEBINAR: World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought: Regreening the desert as a solution

Francois Stepman posted Information | 17 June 2021

17 June 2021 . Desertification is a gradual process through which fertile land degrades over time and turns into barren soil unfit for agriculture. It is mostly driven by resource mismanagement, inappropriate agricultural approaches, and land overexploitation by fast-growing communities. It is also...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Marshall Islands spreads awareness on climate change adaptation

Zhiyad Khan updated the Information | 15 June 2021

The first ever Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Climate Change Week took place from May 3-7, 2021, bringing together members of the public, government agencies, local and regional partners to share their experiences and lessons learnt in implementing climate change adaptation interventions in...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
UNEP at the European Development Days 2021

Alexa Froger created a new event | 10 June 2021

15 Jun

From 15 June 2021 to 16 June 2021
in (Belgium)

Organised by European Commission

European Development Days 2021 The European Development Days (EDD) is Europe’s leading annual forum for international cooperation and development. Organised by the European Commission, the EDD brings the development community together each year to share ideas and experiences in ways that inspire...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Online GLF Africa: Restoring Africa’s Drylands

Francois Stepman updated the Information | 7 June 2021

2-3 June 2021 - Online GLF Africa: Restoring Africa’s Drylands Agenda for more . This conference can be attended in [audio mode only] Facebook page GLF AFRICA: RESTORING AFRICA’S DRYLANDS https://twitter.com/GlobalLF Extracts: 02/06 Rangelands Atlas: Bringing an essential, globally neglected...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Why NDCs are so important?

Justine Marchal posted Information | 7 June 2021

There are many reasons why Nationally Determined Commitments (NDCs) are important. But we begin with some history. Prior to the Paris Agreement (2015), only 38 developed countries were required to reduce emissions based on multilaterally agreed targets. These targets legally bound countries to do ‘...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Scoring of the Rio markers and the policy markers for Aid to Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction

Patricia Rodriguez Fortun uploaded a new Document | 3 June 2021

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The European Commission uses OECD DAC policy markers and Rio markers to keep track of development assistance to a number of policy areas, as well as to calculate financial contributions. Each marker receives a score between 0 and 2, depending on whether the policy area is ‘not targeted’ by the...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
World Environment Day - Brussels

Alexa Froger created a new event | 3 June 2021

05 Jun

From 5 June 2021
in (Belgium)

Organised by City of Brussels

On Saturday 5 June 2021, the spire of the Town Hall will glow green on the occasion of World Environment Day. The City of Brussels wants to support of the program launched by the United Nations (UN): the UN Decade on Ecosystem restoratio n. This Decade aims to create a large-scale global movement...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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