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

Reducing Cities’ Heating and Cooling Energy Consumption Key to Keeping Global Temperature Rise to 2°C

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Information | 3 March 2015

Modernizing District Energy Systems Could Reduce Primary Energy Consumption in Heating and Cooling by up to 50% finds New Report N airobi, 25 February 2015 – A transition to modern district energy systems could contribute to 60 per cent of required energy sector emissions reductions by 2050, and...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Workshop on “Indicators and data for Climate resilient Development: from data to information and knowledge to policy actions"

Apollonia Miola created a new event | 3 March 2015

25 Mar

From 25 March 2015 to 26 March 2015
in Bruxelles (Belgium)

Organised by EU JRC - DEVCO

Identification of a core set indicators and data sets with a global coverage for the key determinants of climate resilient development (natural hazards related to climate change, vulnerability, adaptive capacity, mitigation, resilience, and development) to guide policy actions in this area.

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
"Measuring, understanding and building the resilience of vulnerable populations in the Horn of Africa" 2014, Resilience Analysis Unit (IGAD)

Luis Lechiguero uploaded a new Document | 27 February 2015

rau_brochure.pdf 2.66 MB

Achieving resilience at a significant scale requires the capacity to measure the impact of development interventions for policy and programming purposes, as well as to promote greater accountability in the use of resources. With this in mind, IGAD took the initiative to establish the Resilience...

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Group: Social Protection & Resilience Building in Ethiopia
Published: Monitoring and Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation Methodological Approaches

Laura Giappichelli posted Information | 27 February 2015

A review of methodological approaches on Monitoring and Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation has been published by the OECD. "This paper explores methodological approaches that can be used to monitor and evaluate climate change adaptation initiatives at the projects and programme levels. It...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Consultation des jeunes sur les changements climatiques et le développement durable

Ana Ribeiro posted Information | 27 February 2015

Lancement de la consultation des jeunes sur les changements climatiques et le développement durable, par Mme la Secrétaire Générale de la Francophonie, l’Honorable Mme Michaëlle JEAN education https://www.20mars.francophonie.org/Consultation-des-jeunes-francophones-sur-le-climat Quiz: http://www...

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Group: Education and Development
Reducing Cities’ Heating and Cooling Energy Consumption Key to Keeping Global Temperature Rise to 2°C

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 25 February 2015

Modernizing District Energy Systems Could Reduce Primary Energy Consumption in Heating and Cooling by up to 50% finds New Report N airobi, 25 February 2015 – A transition to modern district energy systems could contribute to 60 per cent of required energy sector emissions reductions by 2050, and...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Peter J. Bury commented on a document | 25 February 2015

Adaptation to Climate Change in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Would you all agree then that integrating a Climate Resilient Development approach in the WASH sector, implies primarily to acknowledge that main investments should go into (1) improved settlement policies and (2) improved land-use practices? This rather than - to say it in a simplified way -...

Group: Public Group on Water and Sanitation
Adaptation to Climate Change in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Antoine SAINTRAINT uploaded a new Document | 25 February 2015

adaptation_climate_change_in_wash.pdf 4.21 MB

This report presents the findings of research into the risks to delivery of WASH results posed by climate change in Africa, drawing on rapid case study reviews of WASH programming in Malawi, Sierra Leone and Tanzania. A separate Case Study Report provides further detail on country background and...

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Group: Public Group on Water and Sanitation
Development and implementation of a comprehensive national MRV institutional framework in Mexico

Enrique Rebolledo uploaded a new Document | 24 February 2015

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Mexico has shown international leadership in developing legislation, policy and programmes to support its transition to a low carbon economy. A general law on climate change was recently approved and a long term climate change strategy is under implementation, together with a multi-stakeholder...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
UNEP Invites Nominations for Top Environmental Award - deadline 31 March 2015

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 23 February 2015

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is inviting nominations for the 2015 Champions of the Earth—the United Nations flagship environment award, which recognizes outstanding environmental visionaries and leaders and seeks to build momentum for the transition to a sustainable future...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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