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

Consumers have to change their diets, they have to change what they buy

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 4 August 2015

The Real Costs of Cheap Food Hans R. Herren, holder of the Right Livelihood Award, demands a global change of food production. The hunger suffered by a huge percentage of the global population is still one of the most pressing issues facing development policy. Many people hope that increasing...

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Samson Vilvil Fare commented on information | 4 August 2015

PIFON conducts Regional Farmer Organisation Training on Off-season Vegetables

Thanks for posting this on your page. This off season training would not be possible without the Intra-ACP Agricultural Policy Programme Pacific (PAPP) fund. We are grateful to have PIFON as one of our partner in the programme in the Pacific.

Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Consumers have to change their diets, they have to change what they buy

Michael Schneider posted Information | 3 August 2015

The Real Costs of Cheap Food Hans R. Herren, holder of the Right Livelihood Award, demands a global change of food production. The hunger suffered by a huge percentage of the global population is still one of the most pressing issues facing development policy. Many people hope that increasing...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
L’agriculture intelligente face au climat

Paolo Bufalini updated the Document | 31 July 2015

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Le document montre, à travers des exemples concrets, que l'agriculture intelligente face au climat (AIC) est une voie certaine pour renforcer la résilience des populations ouest africaines au changement climatique. La note a été diffusée en occasion du forum sur l'agriculture intelligente face au...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
The EU supports Belarus to move towards Green Economy

Laura Giappichelli posted Information | 31 July 2015

In 2013, the EU launched a new programme on Green Economy in Belarus with the objective of supporting relevant efforts at policy, legislative, institutional and operational levels. The programme also focuses on the promotion of sustainable consumption and production through pilot projects. You can...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
PIFON conducts Regional Farmer Organisation Training on Off-season Vegetables

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 28 July 2015

A five day training workshop targeting PIFON member farmers/farmer organisations involved in off-season vegetable production was conducted on June 01-05, 2015 by PIFON in collaboration with the EU funded, SPC implemented Pacific Agriculture Policy Project (PAPP). The overall objective of the...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Climate Finance course: Innovative Finance for Climate Change

Enrique Rebolledo created a new event | 27 July 2015

18 Aug

From 18 August 2015 to 9 September 2015
in Washington DC (United States)

Organised by World Bank

This course is designed to provide learners with an overview of the critical concepts of climate finance as well as tangible best practices for scaling-up international climate finance to address mitigation and adaptation activities in developing countries.

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Les petits États insulaires vs. les grands émetteurs avant la COP21

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 27 July 2015

En présentant une contribution ambitieuse à la COP 21, les îles Marshall et les petits États insulaires espèrent donner un coup de fouet aux négociations et pousser les autres pays à s’orienter vers un objectif de réchauffement de 1,5°C. Alors que les négociations internationales sur le climat...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Samoa influences regional weather declaration

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 27 July 2015

Samoa’s call for a regional weather and climate declaration to include international frameworks on sustainable development has been answered. Specifically, Samoa wanted the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) included in the Nuku’alofa Ministerial Declaration for Sustainable Weather and...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Determinants of climate-related disasters in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 27 July 2015

This paper aims to elucidate risk factors for mortality due to storms and floods i.e the lethality of these events in CARICOM countries. The authors conducted an ecological study investigating risk factors for flood and storm lethality in CARICOM nations for the period 1980–2012. They examined...

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