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

Drought Resilience Profiles

Patricia Rodriguez Fortun created a new WIKI page | 22 October 2021

Below you will find a series of drought resilience profiles: Angola Botswana Comoros Democratic Republic of Congo Eswatini Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Seychelles Southern African Development Community Tanzania Zambia Zimbabwe

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
REPORT: The State of the Climate in Africa 2020

Francois Stepman posted Information | 21 October 2021

The State of the Climate in Africa 2020 , report (44 p.) provides a snapshot of climate trends, observed high-impact events and associated risks and impacts on key sensitive sectors in Africa during the year 2020. The report also draws lessons on existing compounded effect of COVID-19, and pathways...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
DEAR Project Stories: Young Imagination for the Climate

Alexandre Foubert updated the news | 21 October 2021

A 16-year-old student wrote a story expressing her climate change concerns and sent it to her home municipality in Greece (Fyli). Inspired by her words, the mayor and counsellors broadcast her messages for more sustainable policies through their media relations and digital communications. Ten Greek...

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Programme: EU DEAR Programme: Development Education and Awareness Raising
Green Recovery e-learning cluster

Patricia Rodriguez Fortun updated the Information | 20 October 2021

We are pleased to announce the launch of an online learning initiative developed through the learn4dev network and in the context of Team Europe : the Green Recovery e-learning package . Eight EU Member States participate in this initiative: Spain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Finland, Austria,...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Invitation: Briefing Ahead of UNFCCC COP26 - 21st Oct 2021, 9:30 CEST.

Anders Morris posted Information | 20 October 2021

The 26th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) will mark a major milestone on the road to implementing the Paris Agreement and in limiting the global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
International Youth Forum “BRUSSELS DIALOGUE-2021”

Anders Morris posted Information | 20 October 2021

TOWARDS THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 22 -23 October 2021, Brussels «Brussels Dialogue» is an international youth dialogue platform, created in 2019 by the Russian House Brussels-Europe. The first forum took place on 26 October 2019 and gathered more than 300 participants. The event aroused...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Governments’ fossil fuel production plans dangerously out of sync with Paris limits

Anders Morris posted Information | 20 October 2021

The 2021 Production Gap Report, by leading research institutes and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), finds that despite increased climate ambitions and net-zero commitments, governments still plan to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than what would be consistent with...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
2021 GLOBAL STATUS REPORT FOR BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION

Anders Morris posted Information | 20 October 2021

Pandemic caused dip in building emissions, but long-term outlook bleak – UN report Nairobi, 14 October 2021 – The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic caused CO 2 emissions from buildings and construction to fall significantly in 2020, but a lack of real transformation in the sector means...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
49th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS)

Francois Stepman posted Information | 19 October 2021

11-15 October 2021 . CFS 49 / The 49th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) The 49th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) was held virtually from 11 to 14 October 2021. Organized shortly after the United Nations Food Systems Summit, CFS 49 focused on the 2021 State...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Capitalismo de Desastre (Disaster Capitalism) en América Latina: Una breve definición

Vicente SANDOVAL updated the WIKI page | 19 October 2021

Link: https://europa.eu/!mX67kM En el capitalismo de desastre, dos procesos de escala global, que aparentemente progresan de manera separada, se entrelazan: riesgo de desastre y prácticas neoliberales. Los desastres desencadenados por fenómenos meteorológicos/climáticos extremos se han vuelto más...

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Group: Latin American Studies

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