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

An Assessment of Specialized International Funds with Available Resources for Climate Change Adaptation Projects in Asia and the Pacific

Ronalee Biasca posted Information | 17 October 2012

This report is intended as a background technical assessment for the ADAPT Asia-Pacific project. While adaptation financing can come from multiple domestic and international sources, this assessment focuses on gaining an in-depth understanding of the existing pool of international climate change...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
ECLAC Workshop Considers Role of New Technologies in Climate-Resilient Agriculture

Ronalee Biasca posted Information | 17 October 2012

The Third Regional Seminar on Agriculture and Climate Change examined the role new technologies may play in contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation in the agricultural sector in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The Seminar, held from 27-28 September 2012, at the UN Economic...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
The EU Approach to Resilience: Learning from Food Security Crises

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 11 October 2012

Climate change and extreme weather, population growth, galloping urbanization and soil degradation impact the lives of an unprecedented number of people today. More communities are exposed to possible natural or economic disaster than ever before. Bolstering their ability to handle a shock and its...

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Climate & Development Knowledge Network Inside Stories

Ronalee Biasca posted Information | 9 October 2012

The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) is delighted to announce the launch of four new ‘Inside Stories on Climate Compatible Development’ in collaboration with Acclimatise, LTS International and Ithaca Environmental Consultants. These case studies from Barbados, China, Ecuador,...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Synthèse des groupes de travail "Gestion des zones côtières - Réduction des risques de catastrophe"

Catherine PAUL uploaded a new Document | 8 October 2012

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Résumé des travaux des deux groupes de travail (anglophone et francophone) sur le thème "Gestion des zones côtières - Réduction des risques de catastrophe" organisés dans le cadre de la Conférence mondiale de capitalisation de l'expérience de l'AMCC, 13 septembre 2012.

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Gender & Climate Change

Chiara Guidetti posted Information | 8 October 2012

The EIGE – European Institute on Gender Equality - presents a new report of the review of the Implementation in the EU of area K of the Beijing Platform for Action: Women and the Environment. It represents the first EU-wide report on gender equality and climate change at the EU level, introducing...

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Group: Public Group on Gender
Combined Synthesis from the EN and FR working groups on DRR-CZM in English

Mark FUTTER uploaded a new Document | 5 October 2012

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Small Islands Push for New Energy

Ronalee Biasca posted Information | 1 October 2012

With rising oil prices, fuel import bills now represent up to 20 percent of annual imports of 34 of the 38 small island developing states (SIDS), between 5 percent to 20 percent of their Gross Domestic Product – and even up to 15 percent of the total import bills of many of the European Union’s 286...

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Launch of the "Saving and Improving Lives" web report - New Annual UN/EU Partnership Report

Anonymous posted Information | 25 September 2012

The seventh annual Partnership Report Saving and Improving Lives: Partnership between the United Nations and the European Union in 2011 conveys results of a vibrant partnership that spans over 110 countries across the globe. The web photo report will take you through the results of our work on the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Climate change strategies or policies: examples and terms of reference

Sophie De Coninck posted Information | 18 September 2012

Dear colleagues, A colleague from a GCCA country is looking for good examples of climate change strategies or policies, as well as terms of reference to develop such documents. Can any of you share his or her experience and practical guidance? Thank you Sophie Sophie DE CONINCK Thematic Officer -...

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Group: GCCA+ Community

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