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

Guidance Note: Mainstreaming Environment and Climate Change - Agriculture Food Security and Rural Development (Draft Version)

Florent Martin uploaded a new Document | 26 May 2015

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Agriculture, food security and rural development face similar challenges regarding the environment and climate change. Following is a brief review of policies, principles and strategies from the European Union (EU) that address development of this sector, with particular reference to or bearing on...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Development Threatens Antigua’s Protected Guiana Island

Alina Moglan posted Information | 26 May 2015

GUIANA ISLAND, Antigua, May 18 2015 (IPS) - In June 2014, Gaston Browne led his Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party to a resounding victory at the polls with a pledge to transform the country into an economic powerhouse in the Caribbean. In their first 100 days in office, Prime Minister Browne’s...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
African islands meet to address climate change and disaster risk challenges

Paolo Bufalini posted Information | 22 May 2015

Representatives of African Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 8 th April 2015 for a two-day workshop to develop a collaborative framework to provide African SIDS with support to address the urgent challenges posed by climate change and seize...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Fiji: Survey to determine number of farmers

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 21 May 2015

Agricultural officials in the Western Division have begun a 20-day survey of the Western Division as part of the ministry's Agriculture Household Survey.Principal agricultural officer West Vinesh Kumar said farmers in Nadroga, Ba, Tavua and Ra would be visited during the exercise. "All the people...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Caribbean fisheries ministers ink regional spiny lobster declaration

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 21 May 2015

In a milestone development for the region, Fisheries Ministers recently endorsed a new Declaration on Spiny Lobster—a highly traded marine species in the Caribbean—at the 9th Meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), which concluded on Friday, 15 May...

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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) posted Information | 20 May 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
GCCA Pacific Small Island stories featured at the Pacific Climate Change Roundtable

Alexandru Ghiurca posted Information | 20 May 2015

At the Pacific Climate Change Roundtable (PCCR), held in Samoa 12-14 May 2015, 190 climate change practitioners mainly from the Pacific region and also from the international arena, met to review the delivery of the Pacific Islands Framework for Action (PIFACC) over the period 2006 – 2015...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Pacific Islands review climate protection through forest conservation

Minielle Tall posted news | 20 May 2015

Photo credit : SPC Lami, Fiji – Achievements and challenges over the past five years with addressing climate protection through conserving forests in the Pacific region are being reviewed in Fiji this week. The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and the German Agency for International...

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Programme: Intra-ACP Agricultural Policy
Article 'Protecting our Planet: it all begins in our plates'

Josick VAN DROMME uploaded a new Document | 19 May 2015

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Article published in the European Commission magazine 'Commission en Direct' (April-May 2015 issue). It deals with the impacts of livestock on climate and the environment, while proposing options to make a difference, at a public level and individually in our food choices.

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Group: European Development Days
The impact of climate change on the achievement of the post-2015 sustainable development goals

CDKN (Climate and Development Knowledge Network) uploaded a new Document | 18 May 2015

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Governments are due to negotiate a climate agreement at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris, France at the end of 2015. The impact of the climate agreement on global development by 2030 will be significant and, although it is...

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Group: Public Group on Development Policy

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