Environment & green economy

A healthy environment and equitable access to ecosystem goods and services are crucial for sustainable development, but they are increasingly threatened. To improve lives around the globe for the long term, we must change our relationship with the environment: growth and sustainability can go hand in hand if this imperative is met at all levels. An inclusive green economy offers a possible pathway.

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Creating a Sustainable Food Future: Interim Findings

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 28 January 2014

wri13_report_4c_wrr_online.pdf 9.85 MB

Publication Date: 2013 The world’s agricultural system faces a great balancing act. To meet different human needs, by 2050 it must simultaneously produce far more food for a population expected to reach about 9.6 billion, provide economic opportunities for the hundreds of millions of rural poor who...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Achim Steiner discusses UNEP’s work including on Green Economy and Sustainable Consumption and Production (Interview)

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Information | 28 January 2014

International Innovation – Research Media Ltd Cultivating awareness of Nature’s fundamental importance and the urgency with which its management must be dramatically improved is at the forefront of UNEP’s work. Achim Steiner highlights some of the Programme’s recent developments in its unrelenting...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
UNEP in Europe (ROE) January 2014 Newsletter

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 25 January 2014

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Publication Date: January 2014 This ROE newsletter issue features the launch of the UNEP Live platform, as well as articles on e-waste, green economy and forest degradation in Europe.

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
OECD Development Cooperation Report 2013

Laura Giappichelli posted Information | 23 January 2014

Abstract: The Development Co-operation Report (DCR) 2013 explores what needs to be done to achieve rapid and sustainable progress in the global fight to reduce poverty. The world is on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving the proportion of people whose income is...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
OECD Development Cooperation Report 2013

Laura Giappichelli uploaded a new Document | 23 January 2014

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Strategic Environmental Assessment

Jannik VAA created a new WIKI page | 20 January 2014

A Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a systematic process for evaluating the environmental implications of a proposed policy, plan or programme and provides means for looking at cumulative effects and appropriately address them at the earliest stage of decision making alongside economic...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
EU Trainings and Webinars

Hanna Petri created a new WIKI page | 20 January 2014

This section offers a list of training courses and materials that form part of the European Commission's Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development training offer on Climate Change, Environment, Natural Resources, Water . Each course is detailed on a separate page, including...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Environmental Impact Assessment

Jannik VAA created a new WIKI page | 20 January 2014

An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is an ex ante analytical process for identifying and assessing the potential environmental impacts of a project in its different phases (construction, operation and decommissioning). EIA applies to projects with potential significant adverse impacts on the...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Reversing the ‘Resources Curse’: Investing in Resource Driven Economies

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 20 January 2014

The amount of investment needed in oil and gas or mining is set to climb, and the proportion destined for lower-income countries could significantly increase with the potential of lifting over 540 million people out of poverty before 2030, according to leading research group, McKinsey Global...

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Training course: Country-led environmental and climate change mainstreaming

Laura Giappichelli created a new event | 16 January 2014

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From 18 March 2014 to 21 March 2014
Organised by Europeaid - Unit C2

*Training Objectives* The specific *objectives* of the course are that course participants become: * Aware of the linkages between environment, climate change, green economy and development * Aware of the benefits and challenges of integrating environment and climate change in national development...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy

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