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

Launching the institutional video of the "ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Programme"

Michel Jambou 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. This Programme results from an on-going partnership between the EU, the ACP Group and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery,...

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Group: Disaster Risk Reduction in ACP
Mapping Disaster Risk in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)

Pedro Oliveira posted Information | 6 March 2015

A few days away from the third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction , 14-18 March 2015, Sendai, Japan, the ACP Group launched a Compendium of Risk Knowledge with the support of the European Union. The study shows that nearly one million lives have been lost to 2560 natural events in ACP...

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Group: Public Group on Fragility and Crisis Situations
Mapping Disaster Risk in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)

Pedro Oliveira posted Information | 6 March 2015

A few days away from the third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction , 14-18 March 2015, Sendai, Japan, the ACP Group launched a Compendium of Risk Knowledge with the support of the European Union. The study shows that nearly one million lives have been lost to 2560 natural events in ACP...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Launching the institutional video of the "ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Programme"

Pedro Oliveira posted Information | 5 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
GCCA+ Supported side event on Disasters and Climate change

Laura Giappichelli posted Information | 5 March 2015

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Fuentes de financiamiento para el cambio climático

Enrique Rebolledo uploaded a new Document | 4 March 2015

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Fuentes de financiamiento para el cambio climático En el presente trabajo se brinda un análisis comprensivo del funcionamiento de los principales fondos existentes y los instrumentos para el financiamiento del cambio climático, con el acento en el flujo de recursos principalmente de origen público...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Clima East Project announces a new round of applications for its Expert facility

Delia Leonte updated the Information | 4 March 2015

A new round of applications for Expert facility is open until Sunday 15 March 2015 ! Through this Expert Facility, eligible applicants from Partner Countries are able to request specific and dedicated short term expert support, as need arises, to assist in defined tasks that will contribute to...

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Group: Environment in the EU's Eastern neighbours
Costs of Climate Change Adaptation Expected to Rise Far beyond Africa’s Coping Capacity Even if Warming Kept Below 2°C

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 4 March 2015

Ambitious Cuts in Global Emissions, Increased and Innovative Adaptation Financing Needed to Spare Continent Worst Climate Change Impacts, Finds UNEP Report Cairo, 4 March 2015 – Africa, the continent with warming deviating most rapidly from "normal" conditions, could see climate change adaptation...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Celebrating 30 Years, High Level Segment of 15TH Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment Opens in Cairo

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 4 March 2015

PRESS RELEASE Continent to Define Vision for the Future on Climate, Investment in Natural Capital, Economic Transitions and Development as Deadlines for Culmination of Key Global Agreements Approaches Presidential Audience for African Ministers and Top UN Environment Chief New UN Studies show...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
District Energy in Cities: Unlocking the Potential of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 3 March 2015

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With cities accounting for 70 per cent of global energy use and for 40-50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, D istrict Energy in Cities: Unlocking the Potential of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy , reveals how local authorities and national governments can develop energy-...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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