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

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Florent Martin created a new WIKI page | 12 July 2015

Here you can find some information about the cooperation programmes of European Union in various countries. Information are extracted from the National Indicative Programmes for 2014-2020 adopted by the European Commission. These pages aim to sum up the environmental strategies of the countries and...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Natural disasters top agenda at Pacific foreign ministers meeting

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 10 July 2015

Better preparation for natural disasters in the Pacific will be at the top of the agenda for foreign ministers from 18 countries meeting July 9-10 in Sydney, Australia. The Pacific Islands Forum Foreign Ministers Meeting will gather representatives from Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati,...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Caribbean States 'lighting path' towards sustainable future, says UN chief in Barbados

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 9 July 2015

This is a year for global action, with international community in the final stretch of preparing a transformative post-2015 agenda for sustainable development that will be agreed in New York in September, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared in Bridgetown, where, two decades ago,...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Eye on Earth Summit 2015

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) created a new event | 8 July 2015

06 Oct

From 6 October 2015 to 8 October 2015
in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)

Organised by AGEDI, UNEP, GEO/GEOSS, IUCN and WRI

In order to coordinate and expand the Eye on Earth community, a core alliance comprising of AGEDI, UNEP, GEO/GEOSS, IUCN and WRI was formally established in 2014. The Alliance will be further expanded to include key regional partners. The 5-member global Alliance is taking the lead on organising...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Pacific Organic & Ethical Trade Community - Niue elects organic leaders

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 8 July 2015

Niue has elected a new committee for the Niue Island Organic Farmers Association to lead the promotion of organic agriculture on the island. The committee will also focus on the implementation of the Capacity Building for Resilient Agriculture in the Pacific. The project places special emphasis on...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Stark warning to governments ahead of Paris climate talks

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 7 July 2015

The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has contributed to a scientific paper published by the Oceans 2015 Initiative in the influential Science magazine and launched on the eve of the “Our common future under climate change” scientific conference in Paris. The paper evaluates and compares...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Stark warning to governments ahead of Paris climate talks

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 7 July 2015

The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has contributed to a scientific paper published by the Oceans 2015 Initiative in the influential Science magazine and launched on the eve of the “Our common future under climate change” scientific conference in Paris. The paper evaluates and compares...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Samoa exporters hope to grow trade, but stay sustainable

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 7 July 2015

Samoa Women in Business Development is one of seven exporters from the Pacific currently in New Zealand on a Pacific Trade Mission. Its media specialist, Faumuina Felolini Tafunai, says she is hoping to gain knowledge on what the New Zealand market needs, and how their products should look. She...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Prudent Natural Resource Management Prerequisite to Achieving Sustainability Goals - International Resource Panel Cautions

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 7 July 2015

Integrated and simultaneous implementation of the SDGs will enhance benefits across the board, says International Resource Panel New York/Paris, 6 July 2015 – As the world prepares to adopt a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UNEP’s International Resource Panel (IRP) cautions that...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Global Opportunity Report 2015

Chloé de Soye updated the Document | 6 July 2015

the-2015-global-opportunity-report.pdf 13.27 MB

The Global Opportunity Report 2015 aims to show how five major global risks to building a sustainable and prosperous society (the lack of fresh water, unsustainable urbanization, continued lock-in to fossil fuels, the rise in non-communicable diseases, and extreme weather) can be turned into 15...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy

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