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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Discussion Paper: Promoting ecosystems for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Document | 2 April 2015

eco_drr_discussion_paper.pdf 10.83 MB

The discussion paper seeks to highlight the differences and commonalities between ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation (EBA) and ecosystem-based approaches to disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) and suggests key integration points at the project level through examining a number of Eco-DRR, EBA...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Oxford Adaptation Academy for Leaders and Practitioners

Lesley Downing created a new event | 2 April 2015

09 Aug

From 9 August 2015 to 28 August 2015
in Oxford (United Kingdom)

Organised by A joint venture between the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University and the Global Climate Adaptation Partnership (GCAP)

The Academy exposes climate practitioners to the links between climate science, vulnerability and decision making. Now in its 6th year, its Alumni are drawn from UN organisations, development banks, NGOs and government.

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Oxford Adaptation Academy for Leaders and Practitioners

Lesley Downing created a new event | 2 April 2015

09 Aug

From 9 August 2015 to 28 August 2015
in Oxford (United Kingdom)

Organised by A joint venture between the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University and the Global Climate Adaptation Partnership (GCAP)

The Academy exposes climate practitioners to the links between climate science, vulnerability and decision making. Now in its 6th year, its Alumni are drawn from UN organisations, development banks, NGOs and government.

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Sustainable agribusiness is key for the future of agriculture

UNIDO Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development Organization posted Information | 2 April 2015

The post-2015 agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were the starting point of this year’s Forum for the Future of Agriculture ( FFA ). The debate was animated by top speakers and high level leaders such as Janez Potočnik, Phil Hogan, Amina Mohammed, Arun Gandhi, Karmenu Vella, Jeremy...

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Group: UNIDO Brussels - United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Intense activité sismique dans le Pacifique

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 31 March 2015

Le séisme de Samoa s’est produit à 8h18 GMT aujourd’hui, à une profondeur estimée à dix kilomètres en-dessous du niveau de la mer, selon les mêmes sources. L’épicentre a été localisé à 155 kilomètres au Sud-sud-ouest de la capitale samoane Apia, à l’Ouest des îles françaises de Wallis-et-Futuna et...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Gender Inequality and Climate Change: How to Tackle a Double Injustice

Capacity4dev Team posted Information | 31 March 2015

Today marks the end of the Gender month within the European Year for Development . CARE France advocacy officer, Fanny Petitbon, spoke recently to capacity4dev about the link between gender and climate change, as well as how her organisation promotes gender equality in developing countries. In...

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Group: Public Group on Gender
Pacific Islanders Say Climate Finance “Essential” for Paris Agreement

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 30 March 2015

As Pacific Islanders contemplate the scale of devastation wrought by Cyclone Pam this month across four Pacific Island states, including Vanuatu, leaders in the region are calling with renewed urgency for global action on climate finance, which they say is vital for building climate resilience and...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Fiji: Beqa hits a niche market with year round tomatoes

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 30 March 2015

Permanent Secretary for Agriculture Uraia Waibuta says the island is the only place in Fiji able to produce tomatoes all year around.“They have a specific climate that allows them to produce tomato during the off-season and that is their competitive advantage.” Waibuta says when Sigatoka valley...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Sophie De Coninck commented on information | 26 March 2015

Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL)

LoCAL Story from the field: "A new elevated road in Cambodia serves as shelter during the floods and brings access to key services like schools and hospitals" http://www.local-uncdf.org/business-not-as-usual.html

Group: GCCA+ Community
Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL)

Sophie De Coninck updated the Information | 26 March 2015

The Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) of the UN Capital Development Fund provides a country-based mechanism to increase awareness and response to climate change at the local level, integrate climate change adaptation into local governments’ planning and budgeting systems in a...

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Group: GCCA+ Community

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