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

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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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Cyclone au Vanuatu : la Croix-Rouge déplore une situation «apocalyptique»

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 16 March 2015

Vingt-quatre heures après le passage dévastateur du cyclone Pam, les habitants de l'archipel du Vanuatu sont face à une situation « apocalyptique », selon le directeur général de la Croix-Rouge française. Stéphane Mantion, en contact avec ses équipes dans la région, a décrit à l'AFP l'ampleur des...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Cyclone Pam au Vanuatu: «Tout est à reconstruire», selon le président de l'île

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 16 March 2015

Après Pam, le néant. Le président du Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, a indiqué lundi que «tout était à reconstruire» après le passage du cyclone, qui a dévasté l'archipel du Pacifique Sud, appelant à l'aide de la communauté internationale dans cette immense tâche. «Dans l'immédiat, il nous faut un...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Top Insurers Call for Urgent Action to Reduce Risk from Natural Disasters

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 16 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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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Natural Capital, SDGs and COP21 discussed at the 15th session of the African Ministerial Conference on Environment, 2-6 March 2015, Cairo, Egypt

Alexa Froger posted Information | 15 March 2015

The 15th Regular Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) took place from 2 to 6 March in its birth place Cairo, 30 years after its inception conference in 1985. This key regional forum for dialogue on environment and climate change, was attended by Ministers...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
National Conference on Resource Effiient and Cleaner Production in Georgia

Rene Van Berkel created a new event | 11 March 2015

26 Mar

From 26 March 2015
in Tbilisi (Georgia)

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
VIENNA ENERGY FORUM 2015

UNIDO Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development Organization updated the event | 11 March 2015

18 Jun

From 18 June 2015 to 20 June 2015
in 1010 Wien (Austria)

Organised by UNIDO

*Join us **in a highly dynamic and critical debate on one of the most relevant topics of our time!* **Registration is open now here [1]! Location: Hofburg Palace in *Vienna, Austria Date: 18 to 20 June 2015 * [1] http://www.viennaenergyforum.org/registration

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Group: UNIDO Brussels - United Nations Industrial Development Organization
VIENNA ENERGY FORUM 2015

UNIDO Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development Organization created a new event | 10 March 2015

18 Jun

From 18 June 2015 to 20 June 2015
in 1010 Wien (Austria)

Organised by UNIDO

*Join us **in a highly dynamic and critical debate on one of the most relevant topics of our time!* **Registration is open now here [1]! Location: Hofburg Palace in *Vienna, Austria Date: 18 to 20 June 2015 * [1] http://www.viennaenergyforum.org/registration

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Group: UNIDO Brussels - United Nations Industrial Development Organization
ACP MEAs Newsletter - Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2011

Capacity4dev Team uploaded a new Document | 10 March 2015

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The future of the Climage Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Small Island Developing States

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Project: Capacity Building related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries
Launching the institutional video of the "ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Programme"

Pedro Oliveira posted Information | 6 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: Public Group on Fragility and Crisis Situations

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