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

CARISMA D7.1 How should international institutions promote research and innovation technologies collaboration for climate change mitigation (May 2017)

CARISMA Project uploaded a new Document | 2 August 2017

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This policy brief provides guidance and recommendations to international institutions on how to get involved in climate change mitigation collaboration projects around research and innovation. It does so by looking closely at experiences of past and current research and innovation collaborations in...

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Group: Public Group on Energy
CARISMA D7.2 Government-led international research and innovation collaboration in climate mitigation: Practical guidance for policy makers (May 2017)

CARISMA Project uploaded a new Document | 2 August 2017

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As collaborative research and innovation (R&I) initiatives have the potential to advance climate technology transfer across borders, in particular in developing countries, European governments have put in place various initiatives to facilitate deployment of climate technologies. In the CARISMA...

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Group: Public Group on Energy
CARISMA Policy Brief "Outsourcing and Offshoring R&D in Green Technology to Emerging Economies" (August 2016)

CARISMA Project uploaded a new Document | 1 August 2017

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Research and development (R&D) in new low-emission technologies is increasingly taking place on a global scale. This policy brief present findings from ongoing research conducted by the UNEP DTU Partnership (UDP)on the globalization of R&D in green technology as part of the CARISMA project...

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Group: Public Group on Energy
CARISMA Commentaries Issue 1 - Reviewing Implementation under the Paris Agreement (February 2016)

CARISMA Project uploaded a new Document | 1 August 2017

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With the emergence of a system of voluntary pledges by countries from the Paris Agreement, attention will soon shift to the ‘review’ part of ‘pledge and review’. This commentary discusses the types of review included in the Paris Agreement and highlights evaluation and assessment of climate...

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Group: Public Group on Energy
Strategic Environmental Assessment

Patricia Rodriguez Fortun updated the WIKI page | 31 July 2017

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
Join the GLOBAL MANGROVE ALLIANCE!!!

Lea Appulo posted Information | 31 July 2017

The GLOBAL MANGROVE ALLIANCE was launched on 26 July, International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem. The Mangrove Alliance brings together Conservation International, IUCN, The Nature Conservancy, WWF and Wetlands International. Our aim: to expand the global extent of mangroves...

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Group: Ecosystem-based approaches to DRR and CCA
Landscape scale Disaster Risk Reduction: Urban Water Dialogues, Panama City

Lea Appulo uploaded a new Document | 31 July 2017

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The Juan Díaz sub-district of Panama City has become the most flood-prone area of Panama due to urban developments and landfills in the floodplains, riverbeds and mangroves. Experts of the Dutch water sector, supported by Wetlands International, analysed the problem and advised to start ‘Water...

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Group: Ecosystem-based approaches to DRR and CCA
Landscape scale Disaster Risk Reduction: Assessing risk across the Agusan river basin, Philippines

Lea Appulo uploaded a new Document | 31 July 2017

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Multiple times a year, severe tropical storms and typhoons hit the Philippines. Fortunately, the population is very resilient. After each disaster, they reconstruct their lives with creative solutions. In the past, the annual floods ensured that the soil was fertile, and the marshes were filled...

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Group: Ecosystem-based approaches to DRR and CCA
Landscape scale Disaster Risk Reduction: Water trade-offs to reduce drought in the Tana Delta

Lea Appulo uploaded a new Document | 31 July 2017

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The Tana Delta is at the far downstream end of the Tana River Basin which provides eighty percent of Nairobi’s drinking water. Fifty-sixty percent of Kenya’s current energy demand is generated through hydropower dams. Seven million people live in the river basin with mostly agricultural livelihoods...

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Group: Ecosystem-based approaches to DRR and CCA
Landscape scale Disaster Risk Reduction: Keeping the water in the landscape, Uganda

Lea Appulo updated the Document | 31 July 2017

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In the not so distant past, the people of Rwambu, Uganda faced shortages of water, crop failures and waterborne diseases. This was largely created by agricultural expansion and bad management of the wetlands. Wetland management, water, sanitation, deforestation and soil degradation had previously...

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Group: Ecosystem-based approaches to DRR and CCA

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