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

Climate Change in Eastern Europe

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 22 November 2013

climate_change_in_eastern_europe_2012.pdf 20.85 MB

Publication date: 2012 This joint publication explores the impacts of climate change on Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine. The three countries of Eastern Europe will not be affected as strongly as many other parts of Eurasia, yet they will see more of severe floods and forest fires, decreasing water...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Small island states struggle to do climate science

ADRIEN Eric posted Information | 19 November 2013

[WARSAW] Tiny island states that speck the vast swathe of the Pacific Ocean have a far greater importance in understanding global climate change than their tiny populations would suggest. This was the message given to delegates during a side event of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
(EU Development Days) DG CLIMA Panel on "Poverty Eradication and Climate Change: Friends or Foes?"

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the event | 18 November 2013

27 Nov

From 27 November 2013
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by DG CLIMA

-------- *DG CLIMA PANEL DISCUSSION FEATURES ** MR. IBRAHIM THIAW, UNEP DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. * ---------------------------------------

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
OECD Online Dialogue on Policy Coherence and Food Security - 18-22 Nov - Have your Say!

Dorothee Georg uploaded a new Document | 13 November 2013

edd_run_up_online_dialogue_on_food_security.pdf 437.21 KB

D ear colleagues and friends, The PCD Unit is hosting an online dialogue on PCD and Food Security on the OECD PCD Platform from Monday-Friday, 18-22 November. We would like to have your view on how more coherent policies can lead to global food security, how to address global trends shaping the...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Low-carbon resilient development in the least developed countries

Kyriaki POULIADOU uploaded a new Document | 12 November 2013

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Low-carbon resilience has become the new buzzword in climate policy; it is an agenda that tackles reducing carbon emissions while simultaneously building climate resilience and supporting development in a supposed win-win policy agenda. Although least developed countries (LDCs) are responsible for...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Pacific Gender and Climate Change Toolkit - Tools for practitioners

Kyriaki POULIADOU updated the Document | 8 November 2013

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This toolkit is designed to support climate change practitioners in the Pacific islands region to integrate gender into their programmes and projects. It is aimed at climate change professionals working in national governments, non-governmental organisations, regional and international...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
SPC climate change and disaster risk management support activities in Pacific Island countries and territories 2013

Kyriaki POULIADOU uploaded a new Document | 8 November 2013

spc_cc_drm_support_matrix_2013.pdf 2.13 MB

The purpose of this document is to provide a summary overview of SPC climate change and disaster risk management (DRM) support to Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs). The document lists recently concluded activities (2012) as well as current and planned activities as at 1 August 2013.

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Informing climate-resilient development: the application of cost–benefit analysis (CBA) in the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) programme - Part II: Experiences and lessons learned in the application of CBA to PACC demonstration projects

Kyriaki POULIADOU uploaded a new Document | 8 November 2013

pacctechrep2.pdf 2.45 MB

This report has been developed to summarise and communicate the key outputs and learnings of the cost–benefit analysis (CBA) work programme undertaken as part of the Global Environment Facility’s Special Climate Change Fund (GEF-SCCF)- and AusAID-funded Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC)...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Informing climate-resilient development: the application of cost–benefit analysis (CBA) in the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) programme - Part I: Experiences and lessons learned on capacity building

Kyriaki POULIADOU uploaded a new Document | 8 November 2013

pacctechrep1.pdf 2.56 MB

As part of the Global Environment Fund (GEF)-funded Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) programme, a cost–benefit analysis (CBA) work programme was undertaken during 2011 and 2012. The purpose of this work programme was to help improve selection and design of PACC pilot projects, as well as...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Released: Climate Change Vulnerability Index

Laura Giappichelli posted Information | 8 November 2013

Maplecroft (Global Risk Analytics) recently released their 2014 Climate Change and Environmental Risk Atlas featuring the Climate Change Vulnerability Index . In the ten next years, 31% of the world economic production should be located in the countries most affected by climate change. The 6...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy

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