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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EDDs 2020 postponed

Capacity4dev Team posted Information | 9 April 2020

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development has decided to postpone the 14th edition of the European Development Days. The next date for this international event is 15-16 June 2021 in Brussels. The ongoing programme...

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Group: European Development Days
What does coronavirus mean for GCCA+ countries ?

Justine Marchal posted Information | 8 April 2020

By Jane Wilkinson As the world comes to grips with COVID19, industrialised countries have borne the early brunt of health and economic shocks. Border closures, draconian social-distancing laws and total lockdowns have plunged the global economy into a deep freeze. Hundreds of billions have been...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
A ray of hope from Italy: coronavirus and climate

Justine Marchal updated the Information | 3 April 2020

By Monica Bonfanti An acronym composed of 5 different words is changing the safety and the economic order of the whole world. These five letters do not differentiate rich and poor, developed, developing or least developing states. This acronym befell first China, then South Korea, Iran, Italy,...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Webinar: Enhancing NDCs: Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

Alexa Froger updated the event | 2 April 2020

08 Apr

From 8 April 2020
Organised by World Resources Institue, the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), UNDP and NDC Partnership with support from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany

Enhancing NDCs: Short-lived Climate Pollutants April 8, 2020 9—10 AM EDT | 1—2 PM GMT Register here Curbing climate change and preventing deaths from air pollution go hand-in-hand and should be part of all countries' climate and development agendas. Taking fast, ambitious action to reduce short-...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Open Consultation for the Strategy of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030

Alexa Froger updated the event | 2 April 2020

02 Apr

From 2 April 2020 to 30 April 2020
Organised by United Nations

On March 1, 2019, the United Nations General Assembly, through it Resolution A/RES/73/284 , proclaimed 2021 – 2030 the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration . The resolution calls for supporting and scaling up efforts to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide and...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
50th Earth Day Observance

Alexa Froger updated the meeting | 2 April 2020

21 Apr

From 21 April 2020
Organised by Parliament of the World's Religions, Faith for Earth

In 1970 the first Earth Day ushered in a new environmental consciousness and a wave of environmental laws. 50 years later we are fighting to protect our climate and our future. Many leaders on the front lines can be found in religious and indigenous communities. On this 50th Anniversary of Earth...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Program - Update Oct-Dec 2019

Hugo Wesley uploaded a new Document | 31 March 2020

update45_acp-eu_ndrr_oct-dec2019_en.pdf 564.91 KB

This document provides an activity update of the ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Program for the period October to November 2019.

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Group: Disaster Risk Reduction in ACP
VANI Letter on COVID-19

Dorothee Fischer uploaded a new Document | 30 March 2020

message_of_vani_and_their_member_organisations_in_response_to_covid.pdf 94.72 KB

This is a letter of the Voluntary Action Network India (VANI) in response to COVID-19.

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Group: Policy Forum on Development (PFD)
Tanzania: Climate-smart agriculture in five ecovillages

Justine Marchal updated the Information | 30 March 2020

What does it mean to be climate smart in Africa ? Under the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) Tanzania project, funded by the EU, an ecovillage approach was implemented in two phases (2010–2013 and 2015–2019) with the overall aim of helping communities to become climate smart within the context...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Masques barrières patron (FR)

Dorothee Fischer uploaded a new Document | 29 March 2020

afnorspecx76-001-masquesbarrieres-annexec-patrons.pdf 553.95 KB

This is a document explaining how to build your own protection masks during the COVID-19 crisis in 2020.

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Group: Policy Forum on Development (PFD)

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