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 Starter’s Guidebook

James Morris updated the Document | 13 September 2013

climate_change_starters_guidebook.pdf 9.05 MB

Release Date: 16 August 201 1 A guidebook to support educators in developing their understanding of the science of climate change, observed and anticipated impacts, and different possible responses.

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Measuring glacier change in the Himalayas

James Morris updated the Document | 13 September 2013

glacial_melt_in_the_himalayas.pdf 2.21 MB

Publication Date: September 2012 This bulletin highlights the need for more reliable and consistent data about the state of Himalayan glaciers so that the contribution of glacial melt to the Himalayan river basins can be better understood. This is important because declining water availability...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
GEAS July 2013

James Morris updated the Document | 13 September 2013

fromhotspotstohopespots-connectinglocalchangestoglobalaudiences.pdf 880.08 KB

Publication Date: July 2013 This edition of the Global Environmental Alert Service explains how satellite imagery can tell stories about environmental change by providing visual evidence of both positive and negative large-scale local environmental change. UNEP's satellite imagery work and its...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Livelihood Security: Climate Change, Migration and Conflict in the Sahel

James Morris updated the Document | 13 September 2013

livelihood_security_climate_change_migration_and_conflict_in_the_sahel.pdf 15.07 MB

Release Date: 5 December 2011 A new study has found that the impacts of changing climatic conditions on the availability of natural resources, combined with population growth and weak governance, have led to greater competition over scarce resources and to changing migration patterns in the Sahel...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Pacific Adaptation Climate Change Project Focuses on Replication and Up-Scaling

Felix Nkwetta Ajong posted Information | 12 September 2013

The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) convened the annual review meeting of the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project, which provided participants the opportunity to showcase country activities as the project moves into its fourth year, focusing on...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Research Priorities on Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation: Responding to the Climate Change Challenge

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 12 September 2013

research_priorities.pdf 3.88 MB

Publication Date: 2013 This report provides information to guide climate change policy decisions and risk management. It identifies the greatest climate change vulnerabilities, explores climate adaptation policy challenges, and identifies research priorities for informed decision-making.

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Launch of UNEP's 4th Emissions Gap Report

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) created a new event | 10 September 2013

05 Nov

From 5 November 2013
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by UNEP

-------- BRUSSELS LAUNCH OF UNEP'S 4TH EMISSIONS GAP REPORT ------------------

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Six New GCCA Initiatives are Approved, with Nine More in Final Stages of Approval

Laura Giappichelli updated the Information | 9 September 2013

Last year, the European Commission committed €36.6 million (most of which originating from fast start funding provided by the EU, Ireland and Cyprus) for financing six new GCCA interventions in Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, as well as the...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Acting Now for a Resilient Future

Sarah Simpson posted Information | 9 September 2013

Read this ECHO brochure on getting from Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Risk Reduction to long-term resilience. Natural disasters are forecast to increase, what measures need to be taken by donors and humanitarian organisations? http://www.preventionweb.net/files/globalplatform/entry_bg_paper~...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Acting Now for a Resilient Future

Sarah Simpson posted Information | 9 September 2013

Read this ECHO brochure on getting from Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Risk Reduction to long-term resilience. Natural disasters are forecast to increase, what measures need to be taken by donors and humanitarian organisations? http://www.preventionweb.net/files/globalplatform/entry_bg_paper~...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy

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