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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Programme now available: The Oxford Adaptation Academy

Lesley Downing created a new event | 19 March 2015

09 Aug

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

Organised by Joint venture: Smith School at Oxford University and the Global Climate Adaptation Partnership (GCAP)

The Oxford Adaptation Academy is a residential course that integrates three learning themes: -Participants' role as change makers, in their own careers and organisations -Adaptation as a process linking climate science, vulnerability and decision making -Technical skills in analysing adaptation...

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Oxford Adaptation Academy 2015

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Top Insurers Call for Urgent Action to Reduce Risk from Natural Disasters

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 19 March 2015

Sendai, Japan, 14 March 2015 – Top insurers from around the world have called on governments, Saturday, to step up global efforts to build resilience against natural disasters, highlighting that average economic losses from disasters in the last decade amounted to around US $190 billion annually,...

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Project: Informs business investment against climate change risk

Lesley Downing posted Information | 18 March 2015

Businesses must consider the true financial costs of climate change in order to better prepare for the future, according to the authors of a new climate change adaptation report prepared for one of the United Kingdom’s largest social housing providers. As part of an Innovate UK project led by the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Vanuatu Ambassador Roy Mickey Joy on Cyclone Pam & SIDS

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 17 March 2015

Interview with H.E Mr Roy Mickey Joy, Ambassador of Vanuatu to the European Union in Brussels just before Category 5 Cyclone Pam devastated the island nation of Vanuatu on 13 March 2015. Ambassador Roy shares key developments on the work of the ACP Committee of Ambassadors (of which he holds...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Remittances and disasters: Policy Implications for Disaster Risk Management

Jo De Backer posted Information | 16 March 2015

The Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Policy Brief Series aims to contribute to the global knowledge base on the relationship between migration and environmental change, including climate change, and the formulation of related policy options. The series is produced as part of the Migration...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Cyclone Pam: Vanuatu's president blames climate change for extreme weather

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 16 March 2015

The president of Vanuatu says climate change is contributing to more extreme weather conditions and cyclone seasons, after cyclone Pam ripped through the island nation. The damage from the category five storm to the island nation has been extensive, and is still being assessed as aid workers...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Launching the institutional video of the "ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Programme"

Laura Giappichelli updated the Information | 16 March 2015

With the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction approaching (14-18 March 2015, Sendai, Japan), the European Union delivers on its external action. > Watch the video This Programme results from an on-going partnership between the EU, the ACP Group and the Global Facility for Disaster...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
As Vanuatu suffers from cyclone, more urgency needed on climate: World Bank

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 16 March 2015

Despite ominous predictions of mass devastation in cyclone-wrecked Vanuatu, policymakers at a UN disaster meeting in Japan do not seem to understand the pressing need to tackle climate change, the World Bank warned Sunday. A state of emergency has been declared in the impoverished Pacific nation,...

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Britain sends relief supplies to Vanuatu

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 16 March 2015

Britain has sent vital shelter and relief supplies to help people whose lives have been devastated by Cyclone Pam, International Development Secretary Justine Greening announced. A Royal Air Force C-17 transport plane departed from RAF Brize Norton early on Monday 16 March and will travel to the...

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