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

Laura Giappichelli commented on information | 23 May 2013

New video: Managing Water for Climate Resilience in Africa

Sure, I agree with you. Do you have tools or procedures at level of your Government to integrate water issues into development programmes?

Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Six New GCCA Initiatives are Approved, with Nine More in Final Stages of Approval

Jacquetta Hayes posted Information | 23 May 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
Highlight of the event

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 22 May 2013

highlight-21-geopolitics-of-food.pdf 2.96 MB

This document is related to the Brussels briefing on the geopolitics of food organized in February 2011 by CTA in cooperation with the European Commission (DG DEVCO) , Concord , the ACP Secretariat and various media.

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Reader: Geopolitics of Food

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 22 May 2013

br-21-reader-geopolitics-eng.pdf 4.64 MB

This document is related to the Brussels briefing on the geopolitics of food organized in February 2011 by CTA in cooperation with the European Commission (DG DEVCO) , Concord , the ACP Secretariat and various media.

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Commonwealth Leaders of Micro-States Discuss Challenges in Delivering Sustainable Development

Felix Nkwetta Ajong posted Information | 21 May 2013

The Commonwealth Secretariat hosted representatives of very small States in a meeting on the specific challenges that micro-States face in delivering sustainable development. Discussions focused on governance, policy and public administration in micro-States. The meeting took place from 23-25 April...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Living in a Changing Climate

Anonymous posted Information | 17 May 2013

“Living in a Changing Climate” is a joint production of two IUCN and CARE/Raks Thai projects working on Building Coastal Resilience to Climate Change in Coastal Southeast Asia, both supported by the EU. In the last few months, both projects have made steady advances on the ground, in a number of...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
l'AMCC 2011 prospectus est à votre disposition en ligne

Coralie Mugerin updated the Document | 17 May 2013

gcca_brochure_fr_hi_res.pdf 9.48 MB

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Session on EU Disaster Management: New Tools for Policy Making at the fourth session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction

Jacquetta Hayes created a new event | 17 May 2013

22 May

From 22 May 2013
in CH - 1211 Geneve 20 (Switzerland)

Organised by European Commission

As part of the Fourth session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction , to be held in Geneva from the 19th -23rd May, the European Commission has organised an open session on EU Disaster Management: New Tools for Policy Making This will take place on Wednesday 22nd May 2013 between 14:00...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Climate Change Challenges for Africa: Evidence from selected EU-Funded Research Projects

James Morris uploaded a new Document | 16 May 2013

climate_change_policy_2012.pdf 6.73 MB

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
CSF - WO2 - Terms of Reference

Manu Harchies uploaded a new Document | 16 May 2013

wo2_-_madagascar_-_terms_of_reference1.docx 25.29 KB

Terms of reference of the Climate Support Facility mission "WO2 - Madagascar - Mainstreaming Climate Change in the Fishery Sector in the Androy Region".

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Group: GCCA+ Community

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