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

Forests in a Changing Climate: A Sourcebook for Integrating REDD+ into Academic Programmes

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 20 August 2014

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Publication Date: 2014 Forests are critical ecosystems in terms of biodiversity conservation and the benefits they provide. However, deforestation and forest degradation account for 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions leading to climate change. The REDD+ mechanism focuses on ‘reducing emissions...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Keeping Track of Adaptation Actions in Africa: Targeted Fiscal Stimulus Actions Making a Difference

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 20 August 2014

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Publication Date: 2014 With the African population expected to increase to 2 billion by 2050, and nearly 65% of African livelihoods directly linked to agriculture-dominated landscapes, it is critical to provide targeted solutions that stimulate action, build resilience and provide emerging...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Call for Proposals Documentation of practices, tools or policies that promote resilience and help farmers to address climate change challenges

Paolo Sarfatti posted Information | 19 August 2014

August 13, 2014 The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) has launched a call aiming at identifying and documenting agricultural practices, tools and policies that have helped farmers to continue to produce food under adverse changing climate understand the extent of the...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Island States to Rally Donors at Samoa Meet

Jonathan Pfund posted Information | 19 August 2014

Amid accelerating climate change and other challenges, a major international conference in the South Pacific island nation of Samoa next month represents a key chance for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean to turn the tide. “This is an opportune moment where you will have all of...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
New videos highlight REDD+ in Latin America

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 12 August 2014

A new series of videos highlighting REDD+ in several Latin American countries has been produced by UNEP through the UN-REDD Programme. The series explores REDD+ in Ecuador, Paraguay and Panama and are available in both Spanish and English, and in both full and short versions. These are available at...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Governments, business leaders and civil society to advance action for Small Island Developing States at UN global gathering in Apia, Samoa- September 2014

Alexa Froger posted Information | 11 August 2014

WHAT The Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States Facing a range of challenges, small island developing states (SIDS) are counting on a crucial September United Nations conference to present their case to the international community in order to seek collaborative and...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
The Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) created a new event | 7 August 2014

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From 1 September 2014 to 4 September 2014
in Apia (Samoa)

Organised by United Nations

*Governments, business leaders and civil society to advance action for Small Island Developing States at UN global gathering in Apia, Samoa * *The Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States* Facing a range of challenges, small island developing states (SIDS) are counting on a...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Disaster Preparedness in the South Pacific: Good Practices from the Global Climate Change Alliance

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 August 2014

They might not make global headlines, but for low-lying Pacific islands king tides are an ever-increasing threat. As sea levels rise, the highest tides can have catastrophic effects, particularly when combined with storm conditions.

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Watch this video on Sustainable fishing practices in Madagascar

Laura Giappichelli posted Information | 1 August 2014

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Community-based adaptation in practice: A global overview of CARE International’s practice of Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) to climate change

Laura Giappichelli uploaded a new Document | 1 August 2014

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" The purpose of this paper is to document CARE’s current practice of Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) to climatechange and how, increasingly, elements of the approach are evolving and being integrated into other developmentsectors. This synthesis of CBA project examples informs an ongoing process...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy

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