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

Nigeria: from an environmental catastrophe to a business opportunity

Laure-Anne Gentges updated the Information | 10 December 2019

Lagos, Nigeria’s largest and one of the world’s fastest growing cities is infamous for its unmanaged waste. Photographs of Lagos' uncollected waste are well known and widely criticised in the local press. Poor waste management is an environmental challenge across the country in both cities and...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
How women-led businesses are tackling Africa’s plague of unmanaged waste

Laure-Anne Gentges updated the Information | 10 December 2019

The sheer quantity and poor management of waste is both shocking and yet very much ‘business as usual’ to anyone visiting or working in Africa. With the exception of a very small number of African countries, waste and poor waste management are becoming serious problems and concerns. Urgent...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
GCCA+ @COP25 : Climate and Security- emerging trends and adaptive strategies (11/12/2019) - PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE

Laure-Anne Gentges updated the event | 9 December 2019

11 Dec

From 11 December 2019
in Madrid (Spain)

Organised by GCCA+

Climate change acts as a threat multiplier with serious implication for peace and security across the globe. Over the last decade, insecurities induced by climate change have been part of shaping our understanding of climate change as an urgent global issue with real impacts beyond the realm of...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
GCCA+ @COP25: Adaptation and mitigation strategies in changing oceans (07/12/2019) - PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE

Laure-Anne Gentges updated the event | 9 December 2019

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From 7 December 2019
in Madrid (Spain)

Organised by GCCA+

The Blue COP COP 25 UN climate conference is a “Blue COP”. At a special preparatory meeting in Madrid in 2018 politicians, scientists, and NGOs discussed ways to use the meeting to gain political traction. Some governments at the meeting requested that ocean health be placed on the formal agenda...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
GCCA+ @COP25 : How to conquer waste and reduce emissions: lessons from African Countries (06/12/2019) - PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE

Laure-Anne Gentges updated the event | 9 December 2019

06 Dec

From 6 December 2019
in Madrid (Spain)

Organised by GCCA+

Waste is an issue that cuts across sectors, economies and regions. Depending on its source its footprint is as distinct as the possible solutions to manage it, be it agriculture, industrial, or post-consumer waste. In many African countries, waste is characterised by uncontrolled dumping compounded...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Shock-Responsive Social Protection in the Caribbean: Literature Review

Francesca Ciardi updated the Document | 3 December 2019

wfp_cdema_opm_literature_review_shock-responsive_social_protection_in_the_caribbean_final_report.pdf 1.53 MB

Globally, the number, duration, and size of disasters and crises are on the rise. At the same time, the cost of emergency responses has been increasing, thus exerting further pressure on already limited resources. Concurrently, there is growing global recognition of the need to leverage existing...

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Group: Social protection across the humanitarian-development nexus
Global Environment Outlook (GEO6) Summary for Policymakers Presentations in Brussels

Alexa Froger posted Information | 3 December 2019

The Global Environment Outlook is often referred to as the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)’s flagship environmental assessment report. The GEO6 Summary for Policymakers was released earlier this year at the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi (March 2019) and is a spin-off version of the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Regional Symposium on Shock-Responsive Social Protection in the Caribbean | Symposium Report

Francesca Ciardi uploaded a new Document | 2 December 2019

wfp_cdema-regional_symposium_shock_responsive_social_protection_in_the_caribbean_final_report.pdf 1.75 MB

This report captures the proceedings and debates that unfolded during the first Regional Symposium on Shock-Responsive Social Protection in the Caribbean, convened by the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and the World Food Programme (WFP). Social protection is a powerful...

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Group: Social protection across the humanitarian-development nexus
Shock-Responsive Social Protection in the Caribbean: Literature Review

Francesca Ciardi uploaded a new Document | 2 December 2019

wfp_cdema_opm_literature_review_shock-responsive_social_protection_in_the_caribbean_final_report.pdf 1.53 MB

Globally, the number, duration, and size of disasters and crises are on the rise. At the same time, the cost of emergency responses has been increasing, thus exerting further pressure on already limited resources. Concurrently, there is growing global recognition of the need to leverage existing...

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Group: Social protection across the humanitarian-development nexus
The Renewables in Cities 2019 Global Status Report

Alexa Froger uploaded a new Document | 2 December 2019

rec-2019-gsr_full_report_web.pdf 25.54 MB

Cities have a unique role to play in accelerating the sustainable energy transition. Crisscrossed with transport systems and home to a variety of energy-intensive end-use sectors like heating and cooling, cities are a prime playing field to transition to sustainable energy. More than half the world...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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