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

Report of the Special meeting of the Sub-committee on Sustainable Development on COP22 Outcomes and Roadmap to COP23

Francesca Antifora posted news | 19 April 2017

Report of the Special meeting of the Sub-committee on Sustainable Development on COP22 Outcomes and Roadmap to COP23, which took place on the 14th and the 15th of March 2017.

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Project: Intra-ACP Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (Intra-ACP GCCA+)
African Group of Negotiators (AGN)

Francesca Antifora posted news | 19 April 2017

Presentation delivered by the representative from AGN at the Special meeting of the Sub-committee on Sustainable Development on COP22 Outcomes and Roadmap to COP23, which took place on the 14th and the 15th of March 2017 at the ACP House.

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Project: Intra-ACP Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (Intra-ACP GCCA+)
AOSIS

Francesca Antifora posted news | 19 April 2017

Presentation delivered by the representative from AOSIS at the Special meeting of the Sub-committee on Sustainable Development on COP22 Outcomes and Roadmap to COP23, which took place on the 14th and the 15th of March 2017 at the ACP House.

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Project: Intra-ACP Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (Intra-ACP GCCA+)
LDCs Group

Francesca Antifora posted news | 19 April 2017

Presentation delivered by the representative from the LDCs Group at the Special meeting of the Sub-committee on Sustainable Development on COP22 Outcomes and Roadmap to COP23, which took place on the 14th and the 15th of March 2017 at the ACP House.

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Project: Intra-ACP Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (Intra-ACP GCCA+)
FAO

Francesca Antifora posted news | 19 April 2017

Statement delivered by the representative from FAO at the Special meeting of the Sub-committee on Sustainable Development on COP22 Outcomes and Roadmap to COP23, which took place on the 14th and the 15th of March 2017 at the ACP House.

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Project: Intra-ACP Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (Intra-ACP GCCA+)
UNDP

Francesca Antifora posted news | 19 April 2017

Presentaton delivered by the representative from UNDP at the Special meeting of the Sub-committee on Sustainable Development on COP22 Outcomes and Roadmap to COP23, which took place on the 14th and the 15th of March 2017 at the ACP House.

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Project: Intra-ACP Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (Intra-ACP GCCA+)
UNDP

Francesca Antifora uploaded a new Document | 19 April 2017

undp_climate_change_acp_final_jan_kellet.pdf 2.09 MB

Presentaton delivered by the representative from UNDP at the Special meeting of the Sub-committee on Sustainable Development on COP22 Outcomes and Roadmap to COP23, which took place on the 14th and the 15th of March 2017 at the ACP House.

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Project: Intra-ACP Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (Intra-ACP GCCA+)
Global Launch - ‘Water Shocks: Wetlands and Human Migration in the Sahel’

Lea Appulo updated the event | 18 April 2017

03 May

From 3 May 2017
in Bruxelles (Belgium)

Organised by Wetlands International

Global launch of a new report linking the loss of wetlands in the Sahel region to increased social tensions and involuntary migration into Europe. Development schemes are undermining the livelihoods of some of the most vulnerable and poor inhabitants of the Sahel, due to loss and degradation of...

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Group: Ecosystem-based approaches to DRR and CCA
Short article on the Special Meeting of the Sub-committee on Sustainable Development on COP22 Outcomes and Roadmap to COP23

Francesca Antifora updated the Document | 18 April 2017

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This is a short artcile prepared after the Special Meeting of the Sub-committee on Sustainable Development on COP22 Outcomes and Roadmap to COP23 to summarize the meeting and the outcomes.

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Project: Intra-ACP Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (Intra-ACP GCCA+)
Systemic resilience to food crisis

Sarah Cummings created a new WIKI page | 12 April 2017

Systemic resilience to food crisis refers to the interventions, such as social transfers , which help to build the capacity of local communities to withstand, adapt, and quickly recover from stresses and shocks such as food crises , drought , conflict or natural disasters . The main issues include...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA

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