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

Research Priorities on Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation: Responding to the Climate Change Challenge

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 24 December 2014

research_priorities.pdf 3.88 MB

Publication Date: 2013 This report provides information to guide climate change policy decisions and risk management. It identifies the greatest climate change vulnerabilities, explores climate adaptation policy challenges, and identifies research priorities for informed decision-making.

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
IPCC 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, & Vulnerability Summary for Policymakers

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 24 December 2014

ipcc_2014_summary_for_policymakers.pdf 12.59 MB

Publication Date: 31 March 2014 The Working Group II contribution to the AR5 (WGII AR5) has 30 chapters, a Technical Summary, and a Summary for Policymakers. This report considers the vulnerability and exposure of human and natural systems, the observed impacts and future risks of climate change,...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
IPCC Report 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change (Summary for Policymakers & Full Report)

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 24 December 2014

ipcc_wg3_ar5_summary-for-policymakers_approved.pdf 1.85 MB

Concluding four years of intense scientific collaboration by hundreds of authors from around the world, this report responds to the request of the world's governments for a comprehensive, objective and policy neutral assessment of the current scientific knowledge on mitigating climate change. The...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) Newsletter (April 2014)

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 24 December 2014

geas_april_2014.pdf 1.1 MB

Publication Date: April 2014 Loss and damage is an issue of growing importance for the international community, as no country will escape the impacts of climate change (IPCC, 2014). This topic has recently risen to global attention with the establishment of the "Warsaw International Mechanism for...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Migration for the Good

Jo De Backer posted Information | 24 December 2014

By Monique Barbut, Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification Have the migration debates erupting all over the world all missed a crucial point? Climate change is pulling the rug from under poor rural people's feet; destroying their natural resources and taking away their...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Project: Climate proofing the Danube Delta (2011-2014)

Angela Bularga updated the WIKI page | 23 December 2014

What is this project about? The Climate Change Adaptation in the Danube Delta project (2011-2014, 1 million EUR) supports the building of a basis for the adaptation of the Ukrainian, Moldovan and Romanian parts of the Danube Delta region to the changing climate conditions through integrated land...

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Group: Environment in the EU's Eastern neighbours
Project: Clima East package (2012-2016)

Angela Bularga updated the WIKI page | 23 December 2014

What is this project about? The Clima East project package (2012-2016, 18 million EUR) works with seven partner countries - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and the Russian Federation - on developing approaches to climate change mitigation and adaptation. The project package...

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Group: Environment in the EU's Eastern neighbours
Fast-Tracking Elimination of Production of Remaining Ozone-Depleting Substances Could Speed Up Ozone Layer Recovery by 11 Years

Alexa Froger posted Information | 22 December 2014

The assessment report projects that atmospheric ODS amounts will continue to decline through the 21st century, assuming continued compliance with the Montreal Protocol Nairobi, 19 December 2014 - The recovery of the ozone layer - the shield that protects life on Earth from harmful levels of...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Exercises from the Seminar on Integrating environment and climate change into EC development cooperation - Ethiopia

Capacity4dev Team updated the Document | 22 December 2014

exercises_from_the_seminar_on_integrating_env_and_cc_in_ethiopia.zip 1.92 MB

This zip file contains the case studies and exercises from the Seminar on Integrating environment and climate change into EC development cooperation, which took place in Ethiopia on 28-30 October 2014. More information about the Seminar and all seminar materials may be found here .

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Module 10 - Background papers

Capacity4dev Team updated the Document | 22 December 2014

module_10_background_papers.zip 4.49 MB

This is the last of 10 modules of the Seminar on Integrating environment and climate change into EC development cooperation, which took place in Ethiopia on 28-30 October 2014. More information about the Seminar and all seminar materials may be found here .

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