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

Biodiversity Damage Mapped by Global Land-Use Study

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Information | 28 April 2015

Cambridge, 01 April 2015 - Humanity's use of land for agricultural production has come at a cost to local ecosystems worldwide, but some of the damage can be reversed, according to a major collaborative research project from the Natural History Museum, United Nations Environment Programme World...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Improving nutrition through accountability, ownership and partnerships - upcoming Brussels Briefing 20/05/2015

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 28 April 2015

The next Brussels Development Briefing n.41 on the subject of “Improving nutrition through accountability, ownership and partnerships” will be held in Brussels on 20th May 2015 at 09.00-13.00 (followed by lunch from 13.00) at the ACP Secretariat (451 Avenue Georges Henri, 1200 Bruxelles, Room C)...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
New Atlas Shows Africa's Mountains Underpin the Continent's Development

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Information | 24 April 2015

The Atlas contains detailed mapping of how strategic interventions and innovations are improving the food security and livelihoods of mountain communities in different parts of Africa. An estimated 97 per cent of Cape Town’s water supply relies on surface water from mountain catchment areas. Cairo/...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Harnessing private enterprise for climate compatible development

CDKN (Climate and Development Knowledge Network) created a new event | 24 April 2015

30 Apr

From 30 April 2015
in London (United Kingdom)

Organised by CDKN

CDKN invite you to a conversation between leaders in the world of impact investment in renewable energy and telecommunications in Africa and UK.

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Harnessing private enterprise for climate compatible development

CDKN (Climate and Development Knowledge Network) created a new event | 24 April 2015

30 Apr

From 30 April 2015
in London (United Kingdom)

Organised by CDKN

CDKN invite you to a conversation between leaders in the world of impact investment in renewable energy and telecommunications in Africa and UK.

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
GCCA+ global evaluation report

Etienne COYETTE uploaded a new Document | 23 April 2015

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The GCCA+ flagship initiative has undergone over the last months a thorough independent global evaluation. The final report is now available. It will be used to refine and strengthen the GCCA+ action over the coming years. A summary of the evaluation and a french version are also available. Reading...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Advancements of the International Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 23 April 2015

2015 marks fifty years since the establishment of the, in response to the 1960 magnitude 9.5 Chile earthquake and tsunami that killed hundreds, without warning, across the Pacific. The System has evolved and been built up over the decades with contributions from countries and organizations under...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Small scale solar power plants for commercial facilities in island states

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 22 April 2015

The project “Small scale solar power plants for commercial facilities in island states” was registered on April 21st, 2015 at the 3rd Joint Committee held in Koror, Republic of Palau where representatives from both countries attended. The project installs 370kW photovoltaic power generation systems...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Guide to Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)

Florent Martin updated the Document | 22 April 2015

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This guide is intended to support the preparation of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) by Least Developed Countries (LDCs) for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). For correspondence regarding this guide, please contact: Kiran Sura, CDKN Head of...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Adapting smallholder farming communities to climate change in Western Africa

Michel Jambou posted Information | 21 April 2015

The research paper "Adapting to Climate Change and variability in small smallholder farming communities: A case study from Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger" coordinated by AGRHYMET and Australian Rivers Institute has been published in January 2015 in the "Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural...

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