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Podcasts on the European Space Programme

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Sentinel-5P (Copernicus) In this podcast series, we discuss topics relating to the many services offered by the European Space Programme, and how this space data can be useful in international partnerships and development. For...

Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Air pollution and preservation
Bio-diversity monitoring
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Biodiversity conservation accompanying measures
Conservation
Ecosystem services
Marine pollution control
Natural resource management
Sustainable Land management
Water resources conservation
Climate change & disaster risks
Climate Change
Clean energy technology
Climate smart agriculture
Desertification/land degradation
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
Drought
Flood prevention/control
Climate Change Mitigation
Digitalisation
Big Data
GIS
Mobile technology
Satellite imagery
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A Roadmap to address Land Subsidence for Central Java

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In response to rapid land subsidence in Central Java, the Building with Nature Indonesia consortium released a Roadmap towards Adapting and Mitigating Land Subsidence in Central Java province, developed through ‘Water Dialogues’...

Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Sustainable Land management
Water resources conservation
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Climate change & disaster risks
Climate Change
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
Flood prevention/control
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Water basins management
Water conservation and basins management
Water scarcity
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16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence - Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!

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UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

The UN Secretary-General’s UNiTE by 2030 to End Violence against Women campaign is marking the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence (25 November to 10 December 2020) under the global theme, “ Orange the World: Fund...

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UN Women

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Climate change & disaster risks
Drought
Flood prevention/control
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Climate Change Mitigation
Gender
Gender equality - women's rights
Gender policy
Gender-based violence
Women's empowerment
Women's organisations
Human Rights

A Special Request for A Wetland-Water Purification System 关于一个湿地净水系统的特殊请求

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Knowledge@Terra Classrooms

In the last decades, constructed wetlands have been developed and used in various technical designs. They use natural purification processes involving wetland vegetation, soils and microbial assemblages in shallow waters...

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A governmental water department and a national research institute in China 在中国的一个地方水利部门和一个国家研究机构

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Worldwide
Asia
China
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Europe
Climate change & disaster risks
Flood prevention/control
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
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Integrated Water Resource Management
Supply and sanitation
Water basins management
Water conservation and basins management

Film Festival "Perspectives on Pastoralism"

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Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA

he Film Festival ‘Perspectives on Pastoralism’ aims to deepen understanding of how diverse people across the world gain their livelihoods from extensive livestock production. The relationships of pastoralist people and animals and...

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The Coalition of European Lobbies on Eastern African Pastoralism (www.celep.info)

Cinema Nova, Rue d'Arenberg 3, Cinema Nova, 1000 BRUSSELS, Belgium
Worldwide
Agriculture & Rural Development
Family and smallholder farming
Farmers organisations
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Land governance and management
Land grabbing
Livestock
Pastoralism
Rural development
Subsistance farming
Sustainable Land management
Climate change & disaster risks
Climate adaptation
Climate Change
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
Drought
Flood prevention/control
Climate Change Mitigation
Food & Nutrition Security
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EU FUNDED NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO PROMOTE CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN TANZANIA

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6 September, Dodoma, Tanzania. As Tanzania continues to experience extreme weather events impacting on the livelihoods of rural communities, a European Union funded climate change adaptation conference launched into action...

Climate change & disaster risks
Climate adaptation
Climate Change
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Climate smart agriculture
Desertification/land degradation
Drought
Flood prevention/control
Communicating Development Cooperation
Awareness raising
Communication
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ECO-DRR: Ending the Vulnerability of the Poor to Natural Disasters

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Photo: Video screenshot of the EU-financed, UNEP-led, ECO-DRR demonstration project in Afghanistan The poorest people in the poorest countries are the most vulnerable to disasters. This is because they lack the capacity for...

Africa
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Sudan
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Americas & the Caribbean
Haiti
Asia
Afghanistan
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Ecosystem services
Natural resource management
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Sustainable Land management
Climate change & disaster risks
Climate smart agriculture
Desertification/land degradation
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
Drought
Flood prevention/control
Environment & green economy
Natural resource management
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To highlight the UN Secretary-General's priority focus on climate action, the United Nations presents: 'Anote's Ark'

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UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

The film will be followed by a panel discussion with: Anuna de Wever, Belgian Activist, Youth for Climate Thierry Lucas, Acting Head, Brussels Office, UN Environment Rachel Simons, Climate and Development Policy Coordinator, CAN...

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the UN Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) and UN Environment Office in Brussels

Cinema Galeries, Brussels,, Belgium
Climate change & disaster risks
Climate adaptation
Climate Change
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Flood prevention/control
Climate Change Mitigation

Green-blue infrastructures for urban resilience: Partnerships to turn policy into urban resilience practice –Wetlands International Event

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Sustainable Urban Development

Wetlands International organizes side-event on blue-green infrastructure for urban resilience at the EU Forum Cities and Regions for Development Cooperation on 5 February 2019 in Brussels. The Forum “Cities and Regions for...

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Wetlands International

Aloft Brussels Schuman, Place Jean Rey, Aloft Brussels Schuman, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Climate change & disaster risks
Climate adaptation
Climate Change
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Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
Flood prevention/control
Urban Development
Sustainable cities
Urban development
Urban policies & planning
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Infrastructure for Watershed and basins management
Integrated Water Resource Management
Transboundary water management
Water basins management
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GCCA Tanzania - 2017 Highlights - A summary of project activities, challenges and lessons learned

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This 14-page report provides a summary of the five GCCA projects, which are located in different agro-ecological zones across Tanzania. The report sets out the project approaches, activities, progress, media coverage, and...

Africa
Tanzania
Climate change & disaster risks
Climate adaptation
Climate Change
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Clean energy technology
Climate smart agriculture
Desertification/land degradation
Drought
Flood prevention/control
Communicating Development Cooperation
Awareness raising
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