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

Integrating the Rio Convention into Development Co-operation (DAC Guidelines)

Florent Martin uploaded a new Document | 4 May 2015

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These Guidelines highlight the linkages between global environmental issues, on the one hand, and sustainable development and poverty reduction , on the other. They demonstrate how development co-operation agencies can support developing countries’ efforts to integrate responses to the...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Climate Change Sector Scripts

Florent Martin created a new WIKI page | 3 May 2015

The series of “ sector scripts” on the response to climate change in the context of development and external cooperation programmes was designed to provide practical guidance on the links between climate change and specific sectors, including the identification of potential impacts and...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (Vienna, Revised 2012)

Florent Martin uploaded a new Document | 30 April 2015

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The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer is often called a framework convention, because it served as a framework for efforts to protect the globe’s ozone layer. The Vienna Convention was adopted in 1985 and entered into force on 22 Sep 1988. In 2009, the Vienna Convention became...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Montreal - adjusted 2012)

Florent Martin uploaded a new Document | 30 April 2015

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The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer was designed to reduce the production and consumption of ozone depleting substances in order to reduce their abundance in the atmosphere, and thereby protect the earth’s fragile ozone Layer. The original Montreal Protocol was agreed...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Rio - 1992)

Florent Martin uploaded a new Document | 30 April 2015

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The UNFCCC is a “Rio Convention”, one of three adopted at the “Rio Earth Summit” in 1992. Its sister Rio Conventions are the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention to Combat Desertification. The three are intrinsically linked. It is in this context that the Joint Liaison Group was...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Kyoto Protocol To The United Nations Framework (Kyoto - 1997)

Florent Martin uploaded a new Document | 30 April 2015

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The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , which commits its Parties by setting internationally binding emission reduction targets . Recognizing that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
UNECE Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution (Geneva, 1979)

Florent Martin uploaded a new Document | 29 April 2015

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The Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution was the first international legally binding instrument to deal with problems of air pollution on a broad regional basis. It was signed in 1979 and entered into force in 1983. It has since been extended by eight specific protocols. The...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
IOM Hosts Migration Policy Workshop in Haiti

Jo De Backer posted Information | 29 April 2015

Haiti is the first country in Central America and the Caribbean to include the link between the environment and internal migration in its draft migration policy. Proposed strategic actions were discussed in a workshop on 20-22 April 2015 in Montrouis, Haiti. They included facilitating the...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Europe Reaffirms its Continued and Enhanced Support to UNEP

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 29 April 2015

The EC and UNEP meet annually to address common challenges related to the global sustainability agenda. Achim Steiner with Neven Mimica and Karmenu Vella Brussels - UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Achim Steiner was in Brussels, Monday, for a...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Biodiversity Damage Mapped by Global Land-Use Study

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Information | 28 April 2015

Cambridge, 01 April 2015 - Humanity's use of land for agricultural production has come at a cost to local ecosystems worldwide, but some of the damage can be reversed, according to a major collaborative research project from the Natural History Museum, United Nations Environment Programme World...

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