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

Global Climate Change Alliance: PSIS

Etienne Goffin posted Information | 3 February 2014

Climate change mainstreaming profiles for nine Pacific smaller island states The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has assisted nine Pacific smaller island states in their efforts to access international climate finance, through the provision of specialist consultant reviews examining the...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Global Climate Change Alliance: PSIS

Etienne Goffin posted Information | 3 February 2014

Climate change mainstreaming profiles for nine Pacific smaller island states The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has assisted nine Pacific smaller island states in their efforts to access international climate finance, through the provision of specialist consultant reviews examining the...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
China's Green Long March: A study of renewable energy, environmental industry and cement sectors

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Document | 28 January 2014

china_synthesis_report_final_low_res_22nov_0.pdf 1.77 MB

Publication Date: 2013 This synthesis report was conducted in cooperation with the Policy Research Centre for Environment and Economy, a subsidiary of the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection. It examines five sectors in China – solar, wind, biofuels, cement and environmental industry -...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
The Clean Energy Voyage: Around the world in key destinations

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 28 January 2014

unepcleanenergyvoyage-2013.pdf 4.01 MB

Publication Date: 2013 In this publication , UNEP takes the reader on a journey – a carbon emission-free virtual tour of some of the best illustrations of clean energy in all its forms, initiated by individuals and communities around the globe.

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Drawing Down N2O

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 28 January 2014

unepn2oreport.pdf 3.62 MB

Publication Date: 2013 Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a significant ozone-depleting substance emission and a potent greenhouse gas.This report addresses the ozone and climate benefits of decreased N2O emissions.

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Africa's Adaptation Gap - Technical Report

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 28 January 2014

africaadapatationgapreport.pdf 1.76 MB

Publication Date: 2013 Africa’s Adaptation Gap thematic report is a stark analysis of where Africa stands in relation to its adaptation goals and a cautionary indicator of what may happen should the emissions gap remain. The results demonstrate how delaying action now will assuredly result in...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Creating a Sustainable Food Future: Interim Findings

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 28 January 2014

wri13_report_4c_wrr_online.pdf 9.85 MB

Publication Date: 2013 The world’s agricultural system faces a great balancing act. To meet different human needs, by 2050 it must simultaneously produce far more food for a population expected to reach about 9.6 billion, provide economic opportunities for the hundreds of millions of rural poor who...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
The United Nations Sustainable Energy for All: a global platform to achieve the transition to efficient appliances and equipment through standardization

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) created a new event | 23 January 2014

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From 19 February 2014
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by UNEP

At this side event as part of the EC's Conference on Product Policy [1] "*International Trends in Ecodesign and Energy Labelling"*, UNEP and UNDP and their partners at CLASP, the International Copper Association and Philips will share international best practices in securing advanced policy...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
OECD Development Cooperation Report 2013

Laura Giappichelli posted Information | 23 January 2014

Abstract: The Development Co-operation Report (DCR) 2013 explores what needs to be done to achieve rapid and sustainable progress in the global fight to reduce poverty. The world is on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving the proportion of people whose income is...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
OECD Development Cooperation Report 2013

Laura Giappichelli uploaded a new Document | 23 January 2014

oecd_development_cooperation_report_2013.pdf 2.39 MB

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy

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