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

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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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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Module 9 - Wrap up

Capacity4dev Team updated the Document | 22 December 2014

module_9_wrap_up-sept_update_09092014_ebn.pptx 188.02 KB

This is the 9th 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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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Module 8 - Monitoring and Evaluation

Capacity4dev Team updated the Document | 22 December 2014

module_8_monitoring_and_evaluation_-_sept_update_12092014_ebn.pptx 870.21 KB

This is the 8th 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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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Module 7 - Sector and Macro approaches

Capacity4dev Team updated the Document | 22 December 2014

module_7_sector_and_macro_approaches_and_budget_support_-_sept_update_09092014_bb.pptx 2.86 MB

This is the 7th 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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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Module 6 - Projects

Capacity4dev Team updated the Document | 22 December 2014

module_6_projects_-_update_15102014_bb.pptx 1.85 MB

This is the 6th 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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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Module 5 - Operations cycle tools and assessments

Capacity4dev Team updated the Document | 22 December 2014

module_5_operations_cycle_tools_and_assessments-update_15102014_bb.pptx 17.01 MB

This is the 5th 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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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Module 4 - Programming

Capacity4dev Team updated the Document | 22 December 2014

module_4_programming-_06102014_ebn.pptx 558.57 KB

This is the 4th 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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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Module 3 - EU perspective

Capacity4dev Team updated the Document | 22 December 2014

module_3_eu_perspective-_09092014_ebn.pptx 1.39 MB

This is the 3rd 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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