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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Food, Water and Livelihoods in Pacific Islands under Increasing Threat from Climate Change

Anonymous posted Information | 4 December 2012

Doha (Qatar), 4 December 2012 – Island communities in the Pacific Ocean are facing unprecedented challenges to their economies and environment from the impacts of climate change, according to a new report released at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar. Sea level rise,...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Thawing of Permafrost Expected to Cause Significant Additional Global Warming, Not yet Accounted for in Climate Predictions

Anonymous posted Information | 4 December 2012

Policymakers and Climate Scientists Must Monitor and Prepare for Large Carbon Dioxide and Methane Emissions from Permafrost, Says UNEP Report Doha, 27 November 2012 – Permafrost covering almost a quarter of the northern hemisphere contains 1,700 gigatonnes of carbon, twice that currently in the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Policy Implications of Warming Permafrost

Anonymous uploaded a new Document | 4 December 2012

permafrost.pdf 1.42 MB

Issue Date: 27 November 2012 Policy Implications of Warming Permafrost seeks to highlight the potential hazards of carbon dioxide and methane emissions from warming permafrost, which have not thus far been included in climate-prediction modelling. The science on the potential impacts of warming...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
GCCA Partners Take Stock of Climate Change Actions in Developing Countries

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 27 November 2012

The European Union’s Global Climate Change Alliance, or GCCA, recently held it’s first Global Learning Event to identify achievements and lessons learned so far, and to consolidate thinking towards the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Doha.

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Financing disaster risks – Lessons from the Bogota exchange

Nils-Sjard Schulz posted Information | 26 November 2012

Celebrating its second anniversary, Colombia Humanitaria gathered national stakeholders and international representatives in a knowledge exchange around Disaster Risk Management (DRM). Held in Bogota on 22 and 23 November 2012, the event aimed to systematize lessons learned within Colombia...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Agricultural measures for outermost regions and Aegean islands

Ronalee Biasca posted Information | 22 November 2012

On 19th November 2012, under the Cyprus Presidency, the Special (SCA) supported compromise texts agreed by the Council and the European Parliament representatives during the last trilogue concerning the regulations laying down specific measures for agriculture in the outermost regions of the EU (...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
3d Emissions Gap Report Executive Summary

Anonymous uploaded a new Document | 21 November 2012

emissions2012_exec_summary_en.pdf 1.5 MB

Issue Date: 21 Nobember 2012

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Press Release UNEP 3d Emissions Gap Report

Anonymous uploaded a new Document | 21 November 2012

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
The Emissions Gap Report 2012

Anonymous uploaded a new Document | 21 November 2012

2012gapreport.pdf 7.17 MB

Issue date: 21 November 2012 Two fundamental questions in the global climate negotiations include: Will the pledges made by countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions be sufficient to achieve the 2.0 degree or 1.5 degree Celsius temperature limits by year 2020 or will there be a gap between the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
What Next III: Climate, Development and Equity

Ronalee Biasca posted Information | 21 November 2012

This What Next Volume presents voices from across the North and South, addressing the combined challenges of climate, development and equity. It highlights the urgency of taking action, but also shows why any attempt to tackle climate change must be grounded in equity. How will humanity fairly...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies

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