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

Vacancy at CTA - Junior Programme Associate Policy Briefings

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 20 April 2015

Junior Programme Associate Policy Briefings Vacancy announcement March 27, 2015 9530 Post: Junior Programme Associate Policy Briefings Status: International staff Type of contract: short-term, category Auxiliary Staff, level 3C Indicative starting date: July 2015 Location: Brussels (B) Closing date...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Webinar for Least Developed Countries on ‘How to prepare your Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC)’

CDKN (Climate and Development Knowledge Network) created a new event | 16 April 2015

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*Public webinar for Least Developed Countries on ‘How to prepare your Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC)’*

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Is the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance scheme an example of successful pooled service delivery?

Alina Moglan posted Information | 16 April 2015

In a recent assessment of the success or otherwise of pooled service delivery initiatives in the Pacific island region, Matthew Dornan and I did not consider the World Bank-led Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance pilot as we felt it was too recently established to provide sufficient information for...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Maldives: Many islands will disappear, despite COP 21 agreement

Alina Moglan posted Information | 16 April 2015

Abdullahi Majeed, the Maldives' Minister of State for Environment & Energy, fears that many island states will be wiped off the map, even if an ambitious agreement is reached at COP 21. The next international Climate Conference will be held in Paris in December 2015. How are the Maldives...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Climate Change Adaptation- the Pacific Way’ video series launched

Capacity4dev Team updated the Information | 15 April 2015

The European Union Global Climate Change Alliance regional project in the Pacific Small Island States has completed the first four in a series of nine country-specific climate change adaptation videos. The videos, conceptualised and planned by the country teams, and produced by the Secretariat of...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Drones and crisis mapping - digital aid in Vanuatu

Alina Moglan posted Information | 15 April 2015

When Cyclone Pam, a Category 5 storm, tore through the island chain last month bringing surging seas and 250 kmh winds, a network of humanitarian data technicians quickly mobilized along with the traditional aid responders. “Digital humanitarians provide decision makers with a better understanding...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
2015 Adopt a Negotiator COP 21 Team

Philip Bopst posted Information | 14 April 2015

This project by the Global Call for Climate Action provides fellowships to send participants to the Climate Change COP21 in Paris (30 November – 11 December 2015) to track the negotiations. It is part of the Climate Tracker Program that aims to support young and passionate people eager to write...

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Group: Environment in the EU's Eastern neighbours
African islands meet to address climate change and disaster risk challenges

Alina Moglan updated the Information | 14 April 2015

Addis Ababa - Representatives of African Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have convened here for a two-day workshop to develop a collaborative framework for support to address the challenges of climate change and manage disaster risks. The workshop aims to provide African SIDS with support to...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Ecosystems Approach to Make Agriculture More Efficient, More Sustainable, and to Create More Intelligent Markets

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 13 April 2015

“The future of food security on the current trajectory is a road to nowhere, and to repeat the statistics that we need to grow 50-70% more food without answering the questions, on what land, with which water and with what kind of seed diversity, is a discussion that merits much greater attention,”...

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New guide helps Least Developed Countries navigate ‘Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)

CDKN (Climate and Development Knowledge Network) posted Information | 13 April 2015

New guide helps LDCs prepare Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) A new publication from CDKN and Ricardo-AEA - Guide to INDCs - provides practical guidance to Least Developed Countries on how to prepare their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions for the UNFCCC. INDCs are...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy

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