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

Guide to Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)

CDKN (Climate and Development Knowledge Network) uploaded a new Document | 13 April 2015

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This guide is intended to support the preparation of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) by Least Developed Countries (LDCs) for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). For correspondence regarding this guide, please contact: Kiran Sura, CDKN Head of...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
National Conference on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) in Azerbaijan

Rene Van Berkel created a new event | 12 April 2015

21 Apr

From 21 April 2015
in Baku (Azerbaijan)

Organised by United Nations Industrial Development Organization

The Conference will present first results and experiences from the application of Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) methods and techniques in food processing, construction materials and chemicals sectors in Azerbaijan and discuss ways forward for fostering further uptake of RECP by...

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Group: Environment in the EU's Eastern neighbours
provisional agenda

Rene Van Berkel uploaded a new Document | 12 April 2015

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Group: Environment in the EU's Eastern neighbours
The Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance scheme

Alina Moglan posted Information | 10 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
African islands meet to address climate change and disaster risk challenges

Alina Moglan posted Information | 10 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
New Atlas Shows Africa's Mountains Underpin the Continent's Development

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 10 April 2015

The Atlas contains detailed mapping of how strategic interventions and innovations are improving the food security and livelihoods of mountain communities in different parts of Africa. An estimated 97 per cent of Cape Town’s water supply relies on surface water from mountain catchment areas. Cairo/...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Published: FERN report on deforestation "Stolen goods"

Laura Giappichelli posted Information | 8 April 2015

Recently published document by FERN and UK Aid on deforestation available here: http://www.fern.org/sites/fern.org/files/Stolen%20Goods_EN.pdf

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Vanuatu: a brave nation responds to the storm

Alina Moglan posted Information | 8 April 2015

As they respond to the effects of severe tropical Cyclone Pam, residents of the small but amazing island nation of Vanuatu are showing the world how to cope with adversity. Pam has been described widely as a ‘monster cyclone’. The system, one of the strongest ever to make landfall, packed wind...

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

Laura Giappichelli posted Information | 7 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
National Conference on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production in Armenia

Tatiana Chernyavskaya created a new event | 7 April 2015

28 Apr

From 28 April 2015
in Yerevan (Armenia)

Organised by UNIDO

Conference will present and discuss first results and experiences of the Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production demonstration project implemented by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) under the EaP GREEN programme supporting the greening of economies in the eastern...

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Group: Environment in the EU's Eastern neighbours

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