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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Nexus roundtable: agri-food chains—advancing climate actions on resilient and sustainable agriculture food chains for a 1.5°C net zero world

Sarah Cummings created a new event | 28 November 2019

05 Dec

From 5 December 2019
in Madrid (Spain)

Organised by CGIAR, CCAFS, Marrakesh Partnership for Global Climate Action, Global Resilience Partnership, SUN Movement, IFAD and others

Taking place at COP 25, this roundtable will directly address the UNCAS Call for Action on Adaptation and Resilience and The Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Manifesto and the implementation of the number of specific initiatives on food and agriculture. The purpose is to increase the ambition for...

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Group: Private sector in agricultural innovation and development
Adrian Lawrence commented on a document | 27 November 2019

Assessing the Effectiveness of Climate Resilience Grants to Local Governments in Least Developed Countries

This is a really challenging area given the limited resources that local government typically has in developing countries and in some ways advanced countries also.

Group: GCCA+ Community
Adrian Lawrence commented on a document | 26 November 2019

Emissions Gap Report 2019

This really is a wake up call.

Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
EGU 2020

Christian Lanconelli created a new meeting | 26 November 2019

03 May

From 3 May 2020 to 8 May 2020
in Wien (Austria)

I'd like to draw your attention to the session CL2.1 "Earth radiation budget, radiative forcing and climate change" chaired by Martin Wild,and co-chaired by Paul Stackhouse and Jörg Trentmann. Abstract submission deadline is Jan 15th, 2020.

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Group: BSRN user group
Emissions Gap Report 2019

Alexa Froger uploaded a new Document | 26 November 2019

egr2019.pdf 7.67 MB

Today the United Nations Environment Programme released the 2019 edition of its annual Emissions Gap Report. As the world strives to cut greenhouse gas emissions and limit climate change, it is crucial to track progress towards globally agreed climate goals. For a decade, UNEP’s Emissions Gap...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Launch of 2019 Emissions Gap report of the UN Environment Programme

Alexa Froger updated the event | 22 November 2019

26 Nov

From 26 November 2019
in Geneva (Switzerland)

Organised by UN Environment Programme

The UN Environment Programme will launch its flagship 2019 Emissions Gap Report during a press event at 09:15 a.m. (CET) on 26 November at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The media launch will be livestreamed at webtv.un.org . The flagship report provides the latest accounting of...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Mohamed Saudi commented on a document | 19 November 2019

نموذج مقترح العمل المشترك دعوة مفتوحة للمهتمين بالمشاركة في المخيم التدريبي "شباب حوار المتوسط" بعنوان مواجهة التحدي البيئي في المنطقة

I cannot send my profile to participate in the camp Is there a certain method sent to you Please clarify if you allow E mail mo.saudi19@gmail.com 01017799580

Project: Med Dialogue for Rights and Equality
Chuol Sebit Deng commented on a document | 19 November 2019

نموذج مقترح العمل المشترك دعوة مفتوحة للمهتمين بالمشاركة في المخيم التدريبي "شباب حوار المتوسط" بعنوان مواجهة التحدي البيئي في المنطقة

We can't live to impress the society because we are the society and society is part of us

Project: Med Dialogue for Rights and Equality
Fatma Ladgham commented on a document | 18 November 2019

Job Opportunity: ToR_MedDialogue Fellows Bootcamp_Senior Trainer

Hi Amira, The application form and all necessary documents including the guidelines are available in 3 languages: AR, EN, and FR. Use the language you feel more comfortable in out of those. All the best, Med Dialogue for Rights and Equality Team

Project: Med Dialogue for Rights and Equality
Fatma Ladgham commented on a document | 18 November 2019

نموذج طلب مشاركة في المخيم التدريبي الأول"شباب حوار المتوسط" بعنوان مواجهة التحدي البيئي في المنطقة

Dear Mostafa, the e-mail address is mentioned in the Guidelines document. Here it is hela.bensalah@particip.com All the best, Med Dialogue for Rights & Equality Team

Project: Med Dialogue for Rights and Equality

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