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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Cities4Forest launches photo #ForestChallenge - an invitation to reconnect with nature #ForNature

Alexa Froger updated the Information | 22 April 2020

Reconnect with nature and post images with friends, family and colleagues around trees and forests. Cities4Forests commits to planting 1 tree for each of the first 2,000 images posted on Facebook and Instagram: use the hashtag #ForestChallenge and tag @Cities4Forests . Together with Reforest’Action...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Webinar: COVID-19: What does this mean for the fight against climate change?

Alexa Froger updated the event | 22 April 2020

30 Apr

From 30 April 2020
Organised by Climate Action

The current global health crisis has created grave uncertainties across the world. Whilst COVID-19 has seemingly put environmental diplomacy on hold with the postponement of COP26 and the 15th Biodiversity COP, what does the current global health crisis mean for ongoing climate crisis? In a year in...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
International Mother Earth Day 2020

Justine Marchal updated the Photo album | 21 April 2020

International Mother Earth Day 2020

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Group: GCCA+ Community
GCCA+ Factsheet: Women for Climate

Justine Marchal uploaded a new Document | 21 April 2020

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GCCA+ Factsheet: Women for Climate

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Participate now in the public consultation on the 2030 Climate Target Plan

Patricia Rodriguez Fortun posted Information | 19 April 2020

We invite members of our group to participate in the public consultation launched by the Commission to collect opinions on the EU’s 2030 climate ambition increase and on the action and policy design necessary for deeper greenhouse gas emission reductions. As part of the European Green Deal , the...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Well. Disasters are not natural, now what?

Vicente SANDOVAL posted Information | 18 April 2020

Picture: Diciembre 2017, ‎⁨Port-de-Paix⁩, ⁨Nord_Ouest Department⁩, ⁨Haiti⁩. Vicente Sandoval. Let imagine that we are aware of the latest trends in the academic discussion about disasters and risks, their social, economic, political and cultural underlying factors. Suppose that we know about what...

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Group: Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Management for Development
Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Angola 2016-2020

Alexa Froger updated the Document | 14 April 2020

angolaeba.pdf 3.61 MB

A GEF-funded project in Angola is seeking to help climate-vulnerable coastal communities by using ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) – a type of ‘ nature-based solution ’ that uses ecosystem services to reduce the negative impacts of climate change. The main approaches of the project are:...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Lessons Learned and Good Practices in Natural Resource Management

Alexa Froger updated the Document | 14 April 2020

natural_resource_management.pdf 29.71 MB

This report collates lessons learned and good practices in Natural Resource Management in Sudan. The "Adapt for Environment and Climate Resilience in Sudan" (or “ADAPT!”) project aims to integrate environmental management, governance and climate resilience best practices into a humanitarian and...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
What defines a successful mitigation intervention?

Justine Marchal posted Information | 14 April 2020

The notion that ‘mitigation is a human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases’ is simple enough. Far from simple, mitigation actions range across the full diversity of the six sectors (energy supply, transport, buildings, industry, agriculture and forestry, and...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Saving the coastal zone in The Gambia

Justine Marchal created a new Photo album | 9 April 2020

Saving the coastal zone in The Gambia GCCA+ Community YouTube Channel

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Group: GCCA+ Community

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