Climate change & disaster risks

El Programa Amazonia+, financiado por la Unión Europea y lanzado en julio de 2023 en Leticia, Colombia, abarca los ocho países amazónicos: Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Perú, Surinam y Venezuela. Los socios estratégicos a nivel regional incluyen la Organización del Tratado de Cooperación Amazónica (OTCA) y la Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica (COICA). El programa tiene como objetivo fortalecer las capacidades de los gobiernos y comunidades amazónicos para reducir y prevenir la deforestación mediante una cooperación regional reforzada. El programa es implementado por las agencias de cooperación italiana (AICS), francesa (Expertise France) y española (FIAP), así como por el Centro Común de Investigación de la Unión Europea.

The Urban Innovation made in Africa project is a project of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and commisioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The project analyses local, participative measures on sustainable planning, construction and financing via a cross policy dialogue with German ministries , an Urban Living Lab in Kigali, Rwanda, and a global peer learning series.

YOU(th) CARE FOR CHANGE is a project focused on engaging and empowering the younger generations to promote global care, sustainability and gender equality. The project aims to strengthen active citizenship among young people through activities such as mapping youth associations, capacity building through coaching and peer-to-peer exchanges and participatory meetings to define local agendas.

Euroclima, as part of the Global Gateway strategy, builds partnerships between the European Union (EU) and the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) regions to drive a green and just transition. Through bilateral dialogues and regional collaboration, the programme engages with 33 partner countries and key regional organisations to identify priorities and translate them into concrete actions, fostering long-term environmental and climate resilience. By creating the right conditions and supporting key initiatives in priority sectors, Euroclima helps establish a solid foundation for a sustainable transition. The programme also facilitates the mobilisation of climate and green financing, addressing urgent environmental challenges.

Project supporting the implementation of the EU-Korea Green Partnership. Key activities supported: • Green diplomacy & outreach • Clean & just energy transition • Promoting industry cooperation on circular economy • Protecting biodiversity & fighting environmental pollution. • City-to-City cooperation on green & smart city innovations.

The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy is the largest global alliance for city and local climate leadership, built upon the commitment of over 13,000 cities and local governments. These cities hail from 6 continents and 144 countries. In total, they represent more than 1.2 billion people. With Regional and National Covenants of Mayors, cities can commit locally to act to climate change through the GCoM. Each Regional and National Covenant is a member of the GCoM and may profit from contributing to the world’s largest existing initiative supported by the European Commission and Bloomberg Philanthropies and acknowledge by the United Nations Framework Conference for Climate Change rather than to a standalone or new effort.

PRARECOM project is one of the five projects in the Tubehoneza Programme funded by the European Union and implemented by AVSI in consortium with Caritas International Bélgique and Vétérinaire Sans Frontière Belgique. The PRARECOM project aims to contribute to the sustainable strengthening of the resilience of Burundi's rural population in 41 municipalities across 14 provinces. Its specific objective is to enhance the food security, nutrition, and social cohesion of 1,228,863 people by sustainably strengthening their livelihoods and basic services in these areas.

The Climate Change Sector Reform Performance Contract project aims to transform Ethiopia towards a climate resilient and green economy. It specifically improves the capacity of stakeholders of the Climate Resilience Green Economy (CRGE) strategy. The project also facilitates policy dialogue on forestry, industrial energy efficiency, national Measuring - Reporting - Verification (MRV) system for emissions and climate change funds management.

Welcome to the Urban Knowledge Hub - the digital, international network for sustainable urban development on the Capacity4dev platform.

The "GMES and Africa" process was launched by the Maputo Declaration, signed on 15 October 2006. The initiative aims to strengthen and further develop infrastructure for more coherent exploitation of Earth Observation data (space