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

New Fund Bridges Caribbean Agriculture & Climate Change

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 20 July 2015

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved the $5 million Climate-Smart Agriculture Fund for Latin American and the Caribbean (CSAF), which aims to incentivize private sector investment in projects that increase farmers’ incomes while also combating climate change. The initiative was...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Farmers Struggle as Crops Dry Up in Caribbean & Central America

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 17 July 2015

Historic drought in the Caribbean is causing huge losses for farmers as the region suffers the driest conditions in more than five years. Rice farmers in the Dominican Republic's north west province of Monti Cristi expect they could lose as much as 80 percent of their harvests this season their...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Pacific pledge to harness agritourism for rural development

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 17 July 2015

An event aimed at promoting links between agriculture and other productive sectors in the Pacific islands has resolved to set up a regional initiative to drive plans for developing agribusiness and agritourism. The Nadi Declaration, made at the close of the Agribusiness Forum: Linking the agrifood...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Launch of project on sustainable pest management

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 17 July 2015

Traditional Pacific diets are based on root crops and indigenous vegetables, but as economies have grown, imported processed foods have been substituted into diets resulting in a rise in non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Sweetpotato and yam are two staple root crops that are the mainstay of many...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
British Virgin Islands on drought watch with dramatic drop in rainfall

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 14 July 2015

With just 3.5 inches of rain for the first half of the year, the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has joined the growing list of Caribbean countries under drought watch. A drought watch means that a drought is possible and governments are encouraged to take action to implement drought management plans...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
UNEP at the European Development Days 2015 (EDD15)

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Information | 14 July 2015

Organized by the European Commission, the European Development Days (EDD) is Europe’s leading forum on development and international cooperation showcasing the ways in which the European Union is engaged in eradicating poverty, promoting sustainability and justice. This year’s agenda includes over...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Vanuatu Renewable Readiness Assement - IRENA

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 14 July 2015

The International Renerable Energy Agency has published the Vanuatu Renewable Readiness Assement (RRA). The Ministry of Climate Change and Natural Disaster of Vanuatu welcomes the puiblication of the report. They note that the RRA is particularly useful since the report brings together energy...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Bonn Climate Change Conference - UNEP Events

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 14 July 2015

1)UNEP's Global Adaptation Network held Adaptation Knowledge Day on Saturday 6th June.This is the sixth successive year in which AKD has been held during the Bonn climate meetings. About 90 people participated in the event. The keynote address was given by Saleemul Huq of Bangladesh's International...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Surprising Citizens' Views on Climate Change

Alexa Froger updated the Information | 14 July 2015

Close to Three Quarters Say Action Will Boost Quality of Life. Vast Majority Back Long Term Goal for New United Nations Agreement in Paris. Education for the Masses Cited as Best Bet for Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Bonn, 10 June 2015 - Almost 80 per cent of citizens across the globe are very...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Natural Capital, SDGs and COP21 discussed at the 15th session of the African Ministerial Conference on Environment, 2-6 March 2015, Cairo, Egypt

Alexa Froger updated the Information | 13 July 2015

The 15th Regular Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) took place from 2 to 6 March in its birth place Cairo, 30 years after its inception conference in 1985. This key regional forum for dialogue on environment and climate change, was attended by Ministers...

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