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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World Environment Day 2015

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 5 June 2015

World Environment Day is celebrated each year on 5 June. World Environment Day (WED) is the United Nations’ principal vehicle for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the environment. Over the years it has grown to be a broad, global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
World Can Avert Financial and Environmental Costs of Resource Depletion and Save Millions in Efficiency Gains – New UN Report Shows How

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 5 June 2015

Cities and Municipalities Lead the Way in Innovation and Adaptability Milan, 4 June 2015 – As the financial and environmental costs of resource depletion begin to affect economic growth worldwide, countries need to find ways to manage finite resources while meeting the needs of a growing and...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
World Environment Day 2015: “Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care."

Jo De Backer posted Information | 5 June 2015

World Environment Day gives us an opportunity to reflect on the complex linkages that relate human beings to their environment. One in seven people on this planet is a migrant and the fact that they are on the move impacts the lives of billions more people. Throughout history, human beings have...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Linking Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management: Policy Challenges and Opportunities (DFID/EC/UN/WB, 2002)

Florent Martin updated the Document | 5 June 2015

linking_poverty_reduction_and_environmental_management.pdf 5.2 MB

One in five people on the planet -two-thirds of them women- live in abject poverty. While the last century saw great progress in reducing poverty and improving well-being, poverty remains a global problem of huge proportions . Of the world's 6 billion people, 2.8 billion live on less than US$2 a...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Green Week 8.1 Averting global biodiversity loss 5 June 2015 - 11:30-13:00

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) created a new event | 4 June 2015

05 Jun

From 5 June 2015
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by European Commission

Session at which UNEP is represented in the panel

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incrEAST Newsletter No 27

Stephanie Franke uploaded a new Document | 2 June 2015

increast_newsletter_no27_for_web_0.pdf 2.2 MB

The incrEAST newsletter is a publication by the IncoNet EaP and IncoNet CA projects, which are funded under the EU's 7th Framework Programme for Research and Development. It provides up-to-date information about science, technology and innovation (STI) cooperation, and research policy dialogue...

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Group: Environment in the EU's Eastern neighbours
UNEP lab session at EDD: Financing the SWITCH to Green SMEs across Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 2 June 2015

Paris, 29 th May As a flag event of the European Year for Development (EYD2015), European Development Days (EDD15) will open its doors on 3-4 June 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. The Forum will bring together leaders, visionaries, experts and other professionals working in development cooperation to...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Revised guide helps LDCs and SIDS navigate ‘Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)’

CDKN (Climate and Development Knowledge Network) posted Information | 1 June 2015

CDKN and Ricardo-AEA have revised their popular Guide to INDCs , which provides practical guidance to countries on how to prepare their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or 'INDCs' for the UNFCCC. This new edition of May 2015 has been revised following discussions with stakeholders and...

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Guide to INDCs

CDKN (Climate and Development Knowledge Network) uploaded a new Document | 1 June 2015

cdkn_guide_to_indcs_revised_may_2015.pdf 738.68 KB

This guide seeks to address the broad range of approaches being considered by LDCs and SIDS in preparing their INDCs, including the challenges they face and different national circumstances and levels of capacity, preparedness and ambition. The Guide to INDCs provides a practical example of how an...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Bahamas Builds Resilience Against a Surging Sea

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 1 June 2015

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have championed the phrase “1.5 to stay alive” in demanding that global temperature increases be kept as far below 1.5 degrees C as possible to limit the anticipated devastating effects of climate change on the world’s most vulnerable countries. But for the...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies

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