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

UNEP-WCMC is proud to launch the revamped Ocean+ Habitats platform on World Ocean's Day 2021

Alexa Froger created a new event | 3 June 2021

08 Jun

From 8 June 2021
Organised by UNEP WCMC

Date and time Tue, 8 June 2021 14:00 – 14:50 CEST You can secure your place at the event via EventBrite . About this event The platform Ocean+ Habitats was developed to provide information on the location and distribution of key marine and coastal habitats, as well as track the global conservation...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
WEBINAR: Global Dialogue of Higher Education, Research and Advisory Services Networks and selected Actors

Francois Stepman posted news | 2 June 2021

2 June, 2021 . Global Dialogue of Higher Education, Research and Advisory Services Networks and selected Actors by RUFORUM The Concept note on dialogue on building capacity for agrifood systems research to better harness science, institutions and technology to improve Global/African food systems [...

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Programme: DeSIRA
WEBINAR: FFA2021 New Genomic Techniques – sustainable tool to face climate change?

Francois Stepman posted Information | 2 June 2021

26 May 2021 . WEBINAR: FFA2021 New Genomic Techniques – sustainable tool to face climate change? Recording forthcoming Session 1: Are NGTs one of the tools for achieving the Farm to Fork Strategy targets? Keynote address: Prof. Andreas Weber, Director, Institute of Plant Biochemistry Heinrich Heine...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
WEBINAR: Building evidence for transforming agricultural innovation systems under climate change

Francois Stepman posted news | 2 June 2021

2 June 2021. Opportunities, challenges and ‘trade-offs’ in scaling agro-ecological practices the UK—as part of its COP26 Presidency—engaged a new campaign ‘ Transforming Agricultural Innovation for People, Nature and Climate ’ to catalyse a step change in agricultural innovation. This component of...

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Programme: DeSIRA
Online GLF Africa: Restoring Africa’s Drylands

Francois Stepman posted Information | 2 June 2021

2-3 June 2021 - Online GLF Africa: Restoring Africa’s Drylands Agenda for more . This conference can be attended in [audio mode only] Facebook page GLF AFRICA: RESTORING AFRICA’S DRYLANDS https://twitter.com/GlobalLF Extracts: 02/06 Rangelands Atlas: Bringing an essential, globally neglected...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
World Oceans Day screening of Silent Fish

Alexa Froger created a new event | 31 May 2021

08 Jun

From 8 June 2021
Organised by CinéONU UNEP FAO UNRIC EU Commission Oceana

To mark World Oceans Day, the United Nations and Oceana present: Silent Fish, by Andreas Loukakos & Thodoris Chondrogiannos. In collaboration with: Ocean Week Synopsis The Mediterranean remains the most overfished sea on the planet, in the era of climate change. Traveling across the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
The UN at EU Green Week

Alexa Froger posted Information | 31 May 2021

The EU Green Week is Europe’s biggest annual conference focusing on environmental policy. The ‘ EU Green Week 2021’ will take place from 31 May to 4 June 2021, and includes an opening event on citizen science for Zero Pollution taking place in Lahti Finland, a virtual high level conference hosted...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Enhancing Palau’s Eco Paradise radio station to broadcast climate resilience information

Zhiyad Khan updated the Information | 29 May 2021

His Excellency President Surangel Whipps, Jr., President of the Republic of Palau at Eco Paradise FM updating the public live via Facebook & radio during Typhoon Surigae. Awareness about climate resilience, health and environmental stewardship in Palau has received a timely boost with the...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
You want to know what the Green Deal means for cooperation programmes? Follow the webinar!

Patricia Rodriguez Fortun posted Information | 28 May 2021

You will learn how to mainstream environment and climate change into cooperation, in particular through the European Green Deal. The Commission has launched several policies related to 'green issues': environment, climate change, biodiversity, circular economy, etc. INTPA F1 and F2 have set up...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
The Climate Situation Room: a Friends of Europe event on the use of space date for climate action

Alexa Froger updated the Information | 28 May 2021

The Climate situation room event on 26 May 2021 organised by Friends of Europe, aimed at exploring the role digital and data governance plays for environmental policies. The event featured a panel of experts, including from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), who highlighted different ways in...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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