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

Pacific youth and the blue economy

Justine Marchal posted Information | 3 months ago

The Paciﬁc Ocean, which covers 30% of the Earth’s surface, is the source of life for Paciﬁc Island countries, which depend on it for food, income and employment. Yet this critical resource is under threat from the impacts of climate change, marine pollution and over-exploitation. © EU GCCA+ – SUPA...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Maldives and Barbados: waste and tourism entangled

Justine Marchal posted Information | 3 months ago

The Maldives and Barbados are classiﬁed as Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and, before the COVID-19 outbreak, their primary source of income came from the tourism sector. For the Maldives tourism accounted for 25.2 % of its GDP in 2019, with more than a third of government tax revenue coming...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
NEW DEADLINE #Climateofchange Call for Proposals! Apply for funding until 1st of May 2022

Kai Diederich updated the Information | 3 months ago

WeWorld has published a Call for Proposals for Civil Society Organizations. You can receive financial support to implement your own creative campaign and activities at national level in order to support the cause of #ClimateOfChange . The project is co-funded by the European Commission in the...

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Group: EU DEAR Programme Group
GCCA+ in the news: the Cuban coastal project results in Ciego de Avila

Justine Marchal posted Information | 3 months ago

Coastal Resilience, financed with four million euros from the European Union (EU), through the Global Alliance for Climate Change plus (GCCA+), is progressing in its work and results were specifically made known regarding the restoration of coastal settlements in Cuba’s Ciego de Avila province, one...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
#ClimateOfChange Call for project proposal evaluators - new deadline

DEAR Support Team updated the Information | 3 months ago

The EU DEAR project #ClimateOfChange is looking for global learning and climate protection experts-project evaluators. For whom? People in the EU who are active in fields such as global leaning, educational work, campaigning, climate or resource protection, (international) climate or migration...

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Group: EU DEAR Programme Group
L'UE annonce l'Initiative Team Europe sur la Gestion des Eaux Transfrontalières en Afrique

Patricia Rodriguez Fortun posted Information | 3 months ago

Dakar, 24 mars 2022.- Lors du 9ème Forum Mondial de l'Eau, la Directrice Générale Adjointe pour les Partenariats Internationaux, Marjeta Jager, a annoncé une nouvelle initiative de la Team Europe pour soutenir la gestion des eaux transfrontalières en Afrique. « Il s'agit d'un effort conjoint de...

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Group: Public Group on Water and Sanitation
MALI: étude de faisanilité du REDD+

Paulino ISIDORO-RAMIREZ uploaded a new Document | 3 months ago

resultat_ii_version_finale_resum_decid.pdf 1.01 MB

Étude de la faisabilité de l’utilisation du mécanisme de réduction des émissions dues à la déforestation et la dégradation des forêts (REDD+) au Mali, elaboration de plan méthodologique pour la mise en place du mécanisme REDD+ et définition des rôles des acteurs clés.

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Nature-based solutions for coasts and oceans

Justine Marchal posted Information | 3 months ago

The effectiveness of ecosystems in mitigating climate change is not a new discovery. Oceans, forests and soils have been recognised as natural carbon sinks for years. Oceans have a strong potential to absorb greenhouse gases. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN),...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
EU GCCA+ Review of Climate Issue N°9 : Turning the economy blue

Justine Marchal uploaded a new Document | 3 months ago

220317_bls21220_gcc_issue_n_9_eng.v05.pdf 6.03 MB

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Group: GCCA+ Community
#GreeningEUcooperation: International Day of Forests

Patricia Rodriguez Fortun created a new event | 3 months ago

21 Mar

From 21 March 2022

Consumption of beef, palm oil, soy beans, wood, cocoa and coffee in the European Union drives deforestation and forest degradation across the world. The European Union aims to stop this by no longer allowing deforestation-related commodities and products on the market. On International Day of...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy

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