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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EMG Nexus Dialogue Registration

Alexa Froger created a new event | 24 August 2021

07 Sep

From 7 September 2021
Organised by EMG UN Alliance UNEP ITC EFI UNCTAD UNECE UNESCO UNFCCC ILO

EMG Nexus Dialogue Registration Topic: Sustainable Recovery through Sustainable Fashion: A Focus on the Environmental Dimensions Time: Sep 7, 2021 08:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tRNqyDcBS7-D2Jha_uMBjQ Description The UN...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
10 new smart agriculture pilot projects in West Africa

Justine Marchal posted Information | 23 August 2021

10 new #climate smart #agriculture pilot projects launched by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) under the #GCCAPlus West Africa project. The ten projects are spread across 7 West African countries (Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Nigeria and Sierra Leone) and...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
EU GCCA+ Liberia: Building capacity for waste management

Justine Marchal posted Information | 18 August 2021

The European Union funded project Cities Alliance Liberia Country Program is providing micro-finance loans to 20 Community Based Enterprises (CBE) that collect solid waste from house to house and 1 Small, Medium Enterprise (SME) that collects waste from businesses and other institutions. Solid...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Equipment and vehicles from the EU and UNDP in Suriname

Justine Marchal posted Information | 17 August 2021

Building resilience in Suriname through integrated water management, sustainable use and management of the coastal ecosystem involved a donation of equipment and logistical resources, handed over to the Ministry of Public Works (OW) of Suriname by the European Union (EU) and the United Nations...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Zimbabwe Champions Climate-Smart Technology Project

Justine Marchal posted Information | 17 August 2021

A PROJECT launched in Zimbabwe in December 2020 to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on food and nutrition security using climate smart technologies is making good progress with a thriving horticulture crop, a solar-powered borehole, and 100 efficient cook stoves having been installed. This climate...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Are we building back better?

Patricia Rodriguez Fortun uploaded a new Document | 16 August 2021

awbbb.pdf 3.47 MB

The report, Are We Building Back Better? Evidence from 2020 and Pathways for Inclusive Green Recovery Spending , launched in March 2021, finds that only 18.0% of advertised recovery spending can be considered "green", most of it being done by a small group of high-income countries with experience...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
EU Platform presentation on proposed "Significantly Harmful" & "No Significant Impact" Taxonomies

Patricia Rodriguez Fortun created a new event | 16 August 2021

17 Aug

From 17 August 2021
in (France)

EU Platform presentation on proposed "Significantly Harmful" & "No Significant Impact" Taxonomies Speakers: - Nadine Viel-Lamare, Platform observer and Senior Advisor Climate and Finance, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency - Nancy Saich, European Investment Bank, Rapporteur for this...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Please lets share coordination and development actions on this direct link to government representatives

Anita Mamy RASOAMBOLOLONA started a Debate | 16 August 2021

We welcome Minister Paubert Mahatante to our group. We wish him big congratulations on becoming Minister of Fisheries and the Blue Economy, Madagascar. He is one of 21 new ministers appointed to Madagascar’s new government team of 32. Minister Mahatante is an expert on Madagascar famine and...

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Group: Humanitarian and Development Challenge, ‘Kéré’ South Madagascar, The World’s First Crisis Climate Change Famine
1st Draft of The Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Alexa Froger posted Information | 12 August 2021

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat on 12 July 2021 released the first official draft of a new Global Biodiversity Framework to guide actions worldwide through 2030 to preserve and protect nature and its essential services to people. The framework includes 21 targets for...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
New report on single-use plastic products aims to advance sustainability in travel and tourism

Alexa Froger uploaded a new Document | 12 August 2021

rsup.pdf 3.86 MB

Water bottles, disposable toiletries, plastic bags, bin liners, food packaging and cups are among the biggest plastic polluters Rethinking single-use plastic products requires collaboration from all stakeholders London, 15 June 2021 - The World Travel & Tourism Council ( WTTC ) and the United...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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