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Displaying 45 of about 306 results"With current developments re-increasing food insecurity in the Sahel, greater assistance to poorer countries merits attention at this particular time" – Vice President A. Ordu
"The World day of combat against drought is another great opportunity to position the Bank as a champion on climate change and related issues"- A. Batumubwira
The African Devel…
Mansoa, Guinea Bissau - Government officials have launched a new mangrove project in Guinea Bissau, which will demonstrate how better management of mangrove forests can help in reducing coastal climate change impacts. The project aims to deliver the knowledge base for the development of national policies in the fight against climate change impacts. NGO…
A recent workshop held by the department of Humanitarian and Social Affairs of ECOWAS aimed at building the capacity of West African countries to disasters by the integration of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into development agendas and sectoral programmes in the sub-region.
Recommendations included the need to strengthen ECOWAS…
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En un encuentro de alto nivel en la República Dominicana unas 250 expertas internacionales reflexionaron acerca del rol de la mujer profesional ante el desafío mundial de los fenómenos naturales, con la presentación de más de un centenar de investigaciones durante el XI Encuentro Iberoamericano de Mujeres Ingenieras, Arquitectas y Agrimenso…
Alternativas para mitigar y adaptarse al cambio climático y cómo conservar la biodiversidad figuran entre los temas analizados en la VIII Convención Internacional Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo, que se desarrolla del 4 al 8 de este mes en el Palacio de las Convenciones de la capital de Cuba, reporta Havana Times.
Dicho encuentro bianual cuenta con la part…
On the coast of Guyana women started beekeeping and at the same time help to preserve the mangrove forests that protect the coast from floods, reports Alertnet. The mangroves stabilise sediment and play an important role in coastal protection, essential for a coastline vulnerable to rising seas and heavy storms, problems experts link to climate change.…
United Nations' Secretary General Ban Ki-moon highlighted Cuba's disaster risk reduction and climate change efforts, and the role played in this sector by Cuban children in the context of International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, as per Radio Havana Cuba.
The new agency aims to coordinate the country’s policies on climate change mitigation and adaptation and forest conservation, and help Suriname win international funding to help it deal with climate impacts and adopt a lower carbon development strategy, reports Marvin A. Hokstam for AlerNet.
“Basically our agency is established to consolidate Suriname’…
This WHO UNFCCC health and climate change country profile for the Commonwealth of Dominica provides a summary of available evidence on climate hazards, health vulnerabilities, health impacts and progress to date in health sector efforts to realize a climate-resilient health system. The WHO and UNFCCC Health and Climate Change Country Profile Projec…
A two-day virtual inception workshop marked the official start of ‘Building Urban Climate Resilience in South Eastern Africa,’ the first multi-country project of UN-Habitat funded by the Adaptation Fund. The four-year USD 14 million project will strengthen urban resilience, promote disaster risk reduction and increase climate change adaptation in Madaga…
By Adam Markham, director, Climate Impacts Initiative
There’s been a huge buzz at the World Parks Congress in Australia this week about the need to implement carbon reduction plans and accelerate climate resilience strategies. President Obama’s emissions agreement with the Chinese government on the eve of the Congress helped set the stage for serious…
How to raise awareness about the effects of climate change, particularly amongst the youth? The Caribbean “Isle of Spice” – Grenada - might have found the answer!
On Wednesday 15th October, the Grenada Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, in conjunction with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) unvei…
The National Climate Change Adaptation Plan is a national policy with a cross-sectoral approach. The timeframe of this Plan is 5 years between 2017 and 2021. The goals of the NAP for 2017-2021 are: (i) strengthened institutional structure; (ii) climate-responsive water management; (iii) integration of climate change adaptation into national sustainable…
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica have signed an innovative agreement to strengthen the ability to deliver assistance to the most vulnerable people following a climate shock by linking social protection systems to the payouts made by the CCRIF SPC (formerly known as the Caribbean Catastrophe…
The workshop will be held in collaboration with the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and enable around 100 experts representing developed and developing countries, along with intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, to share their practices and lessons-learned in the integration at international, region…