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

Next Briefing: 41. “Improving nutrition through accountability, ownership and partnerships”

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 6 May 2015

Webstreaming : live recording of the Briefing on the day. The Brussels Development Briefing n.41 on the subject of “Improving nutrition through accountability, ownership and partnerships” will be held in Brussels at 09h00-13h00 (proceded by lunch 13h00-14h00) on 20th May 2015 at the ACP Secretariat...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Prochain Briefing – 41. « Améliorer la nutrition par davantage de redevabilité, d’appropriation et de partenariats »

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 6 May 2015

Webstreaming est également possible le jour du Briefing. Le Briefing de Bruxelles n.41 sur le sujet « Améliorer la nutrition par davantage de redevabilité, d’appropriation et de partenariats » aura lieu à Bruxelles le 20 mai 2015au Secrétariat ACP (451 Avenue Georges Henri, 1200 Bruxelles, Salle C...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
How tackling climate change will help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

CDKN (Climate and Development Knowledge Network) created a new event | 6 May 2015

14 May

From 14 May 2015
in London (United Kingdom)

Organised by Climate and Development Knowledge Network

In this public event hosted by CDKN, economists from Metroeconomica and HR Wallingford will launch the results of their new, leading-edge research on the relationship between global climate change policy and human development. They and panel discussants will explore through the case studies of...

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How tackling climate change will help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

CDKN (Climate and Development Knowledge Network) created a new event | 6 May 2015

14 May

From 14 May 2015
in London (United Kingdom)

Organised by Climate and Development Knowledge Network

In this public event hosted by CDKN, economists from Metroeconomica and HR Wallingford will launch the results of their new, leading-edge research on the relationship between global climate change policy and human development. They and panel discussants will explore through the case studies of...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Bringing mangroves back as defenders of climate change impacts

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 6 May 2015

Some of the most effective adaptation solutions are sometimes found in nature – take, for example, mangrove forests that live along tropical shorelines in parts of Asia and the Pacific. They grow where land and sea meet and they are the first line of defense against ocean-borne storms and...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
In the Marshall Islands, everything is climate change

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 6 May 2015

If there’s one country that needs climate change to be addressed urgently, it’s the Marshall Islands. Comprising 29 atolls and ﬁve solitary low coral islands that stand at only three meters above sea-level at its highest point, the Marshall Islands is extremely vulnerable to climate impacts. “...

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Grenada Braces for Impacts of Climate Change

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 6 May 2015

Henry Prince has lived in this fishing village for more than six decades. Prince, 67, who depends on the sea for his livelihood, said he has been catching fewer and fewer fish, and the decrease is taking a financial toll on him and other fisher folk throughout the island nation of Grenada. I heard...

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Citizenship for sale: Vanuatu launches ‘Economic rehabilitation after Pam’

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 6 May 2015

The government of Vanuatu this week announced its ‘Economic rehabilitation after Pam’ initiative, following an official launch in Hong Kong on April 13. Under the initiative, overseas applicants will have the opportunity to acquire ‘honorary citizenship’ in Vanuatu. Port Vila seeks to raise $16.2m...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Major Caribbean Financial Services Conference Begins in St Maarten

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 6 May 2015

One of the Caribbean’s largest financial services conferences officially began in St Maarten this week. The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners’ (STEP) Annual Caribbean Conference brings together companies, attorneys, and individuals in key market sectors such as Company Incorporations,...

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Solomon Islands: Risk is everyone’s business

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 6 May 2015

Disaster risk reduction is a top priority for Solomon Islands, with a working group developing opportunities to help communities become more resilient. The national Risk Resilient Development working group has been reactivated to implement an action plan for how climate change and disaster risk...

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