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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Greening EU cooperation I: The Basics

Patricia Rodriguez Fortun created a new learning event | 18 August 2020

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From 8 September 2020
Organised by DEVCO C2 & C6

Greening EU cooperation I: The Basics The world is facing growing climate and environmental challenges: the greening of EU development cooperation is more important than ever. It is a policy commitment as well as an imperative to achieve the ambition of the European Green Deal, the Sustainable...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Youth taking the lead on climate action in the Pacific

Justine Marchal posted Information | 17 August 2020

Filipe Veisa is a particularly active Youth Ambassador on Climate Change in the Pacific Region. How do you manage this role? A leadership role in supporting climate change is very challenging but at the same time very rewarding. It requires commitment and support from all walks of life, including...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Des artistes s’inspirent des chants d’oiseaux menacés

Marc LINTS posted Information | 6 August 2020

Le groupe The Garifuna Collective a choisi de mixer à partir du chant du "moqueur noir" (Melanoptila glabrirostris), classé « quasi-menacé » https://www.30millionsdamis.fr/actualites/article/19635-un-son-planant-d...

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Group: Creoles cultures / Kiltir Kreol / Cultures créoles
GCCA+ Masters of Climate Change in the Pacific

Justine Marchal updated the Information | 5 August 2020

Roslyn Nand from Fiji is one of the four students from the Pacific who has been awarded a scholarship in Masters of Climate Change. Her studies will focus on Integrating Gender equity in small-scale fisheries to improve food security resilience in Fiji, thanks to the European Union- funded Intra...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Building Skills and Creating Opportunities for Climate Change Resilient Communities

Justine Marchal posted Information | 31 July 2020

Metta Sabally is a successful young businesswoman from Wellingaraba village at Bureng Ward selling sandwiches to construction workers and turning a profit of over five USD per day thanks to an innovative programme that unlocks finance for youths and women while making communities more climate...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Program - Update April to June 2020

Hugo Wesley uploaded a new Document | 29 July 2020

update47_acp-eu_ndrr_apr-june_2020_final.pdf 644.77 KB

This document provides an activity update of the ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Program and the Result Area 2 Program for the period April to June 2020.

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Group: Disaster Risk Reduction in ACP
Communities in Timor-Leste increase their resilience to the impacts of climate change

Justine Marchal posted Information | 29 July 2020

Antonio Sabino Martins is one of the successful farmers of his village, he demonstrates how to produce Pure Coconut Oil or how to raise rabbits during Farmer Filed days with other farmers at Macalaco Village, Baucau Municipality in Timor Leste. "Rural communities in Timor-Leste need to learn how to...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
GCCA+: four new climate-smart agriculture projects in West Africa

Justine Marchal posted Information | 28 July 2020

Four smart agriculture projects have just been launched in four West African countries with European funding from the Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (GCCA+). The countries involved are Benin, Mauritania, Niger and Chad. In each of these countries, GCCA+ has targeted sectors whose development...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
OECD: Common Ground between the Paris Agreement and the Sendai Framework: Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction

Patricia Rodriguez Fortun uploaded a new Document | 23 July 2020

common-ground-between-the-paris-agreement-and-the-sendai-framework-policy-brief.pdf 3.81 MB

Countries are faced with the growing challenge of managing increasing risks from climate change and climate variability, putting development and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals at risk. The adoption in 2015 of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Paris...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
GCCA+ Factsheet: Oceans and Coasts

Justine Marchal uploaded a new Document | 23 July 2020

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Group: GCCA+ Community

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