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

Ethiopia’s PSNP: A social protection programme building climate-resilient communities

Patricia Rodriguez Fortun updated the Information | 26 April 2017

Climate-smart land-use interventions include terraces, soil bunds planted with multi-purpose perennial legumes, cut-and-carry forage systems and multistorey agroforestry systems. Poverty and undernutrition are directly linked to environmental degradation, further aggravated by climate change,...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
A UN Environment - World Bank Group Initiative Roadmap for a Sustainable Financial System - Summary for Consulation

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 24 April 2017

roadmap_for_a_sustainable_financial_system_summary.pdf 1.18 MB

UN Environment and the World Bank Group view the over-arching objective of a sound financial system as being to provide finance that meets the long-term needs of an inclusive, environmentally sustainable economy. This Roadmap is a contribution to international efforts by UN Environment and the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Innovative new tool helps banks understand risk of loan default caused by drought

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Document | 24 April 2017

drought-stress-testing-tool-full-report.pdf 6.72 MB

A ground-breaking, open source tool which allows banks to test their loan portfolios for vulnerability to major droughts was launched on 5 April 2017 in London. Financial institutions are often ill equipped to understand the impact of environment-related risks on their clients and portfolios. The ‘...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
About the United Nations Environment Programme

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the WIKI page | 21 April 2017

Environment for Development www.unep.org Since its inception in 1972, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has been the global authority that sets the environmental agenda , promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United...

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What can I find in this group?

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the WIKI page | 21 April 2017

Environment for Development www.unep.org In this group you can Blog (under ' Discussions '): Explore & search for UN Environment's EU-focused news and information Library : Search for UN Environment reports, publications and other official documents [for all reports from 2011 onwards] Events :...

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Contact our Brussels Office

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the WIKI page | 21 April 2017

The UN Environment Programme's Brussels Office Established in April 2001, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)’s Brussels Office works closely with the EU institutions to increase policy dialogue and build strategic partnerships that fulfill the shared goals of UNEP and the EU. Veronika Hunt...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Programme of the Special meeting of the Subcommittee on Sustainable Development on COP22 Outcomes and Roadmap to COP23

Francesca Antifora posted news | 19 April 2017

French version of the Programme

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Project: Intra-ACP Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (Intra-ACP GCCA+)
Programme of the Special meeting of the Subcommittee on Sustainable Development on COP22 Outcomes and Roadmap to COP23

Francesca Antifora posted news | 19 April 2017

English version of the Programme

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Project: Intra-ACP Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (Intra-ACP GCCA+)
Concept note of the Special meeting of the Subcommittee on Sustainable Development on COP22 Outcomes and Roadmap to COP23

Francesca Antifora posted news | 19 April 2017

French version of the Concept note of the Special meeting of the Subcommittee on Sustainabel Development on COP22 Outcomes and Roadmap to COP23

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Concept note of the Special meeting of the Subcommittee on Sustainable Development on COP22 Outcomes and Roadmap to COP23

Francesca Antifora posted news | 19 April 2017

Concept note

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