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

Warsaw to Paris: beyond the climate divide

Kyriaki POULIADOU uploaded a new Document | 22 April 2014

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The November Climate Change Conference in Warsaw resulted in a modest success in moving negotiations forward. Climate negotiations are, of course, about saving the environment. But they are also about economic competitiveness – and about power. While long-term worries about water wars and massive...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Pacific Economic Monitor - December 2013

Kyriaki POULIADOU uploaded a new Document | 22 April 2014

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This issue of the Pacific Economic Monitor analyses 2013 budget outcomes and 2014 budget plans of ADB's Pacific developing member countries. The theme of the policy briefs included in this issue is the economics of climate change and climate change financing challenges in the Pacific.

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Latin American and Caribbean Environment Ministers Seize the Opportunity to Prepare to Exert Global Environmental Leadership

Alexa Froger updated the Information | 22 April 2014

15 March 2014. Los Cabos, Mexico. The high-level political dialogue of Latin American and Caribbean Environment Ministers and international experts produced an agreement to advance a regional cooperation framework on the global sustainable development agenda, climate change, biodiversity, chemicals...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
China’s Green Long March: A Study of Renewable Energy, Environmental Industry and Cement Sectors

Kyriaki POULIADOU uploaded a new Document | 22 April 2014

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In the past 20 years, China’s economy has increased tenfold. This growth has lifted 660 million people out of extreme poverty. However, it has had an environmental cost. China is the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, more than 90 per cent of its urban water bodies are...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Latin American and Caribbean Environment Ministers Seize the Opportunity to Prepare to Exert Global Environmental Leadership

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 17 April 2014

15 March 2014. Los Cabos, Mexico. The high-level political dialogue of Latin American and Caribbean Environment Ministers and international experts produced an agreement to advance a regional cooperation framework on the global sustainable development agenda, climate change, biodiversity, chemicals...

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

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 17 April 2014

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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
AfroMaison - INRM challenges, responses, insights

Tom D'Haeyer uploaded a new Document | 15 April 2014

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Based on a set of highly diverse case studies spread across Africa, AfroMaison (FP7-AFRICA-2010) has explored challenges and barriers for putting INRM into practice and proposes adequate approaches and tools to address these. The lessons learnt are summarizes in 10 key insights.

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Integrated Natural Resources Management in Africa - Challenges, responses & Insights

Tom D'Haeyer posted Information | 15 April 2014

Integrated Natural Resources Management is not new. Yet, putting the concept in practice remains a challenge. Campbell et al (2004) concluded ‘Our seeming inability to translate the approaches into practical achievements on the ground is leading to widespread disillusionment. …. What is surprising...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Info - AfroMaison International symposium and workshops

Tom D'Haeyer uploaded a new Document | 15 April 2014

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AfroMaison - International symposium and workshops

Tom D'Haeyer uploaded a new Document | 15 April 2014

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