For the first time in 10 years, the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction – the most important international forum dedicated to the theme – will be held outside the UNISDR Geneva headquarters. The Mexican government is ready to welcome the 5,000 expected participants in Cancun, where the 2017 edition will be hosted from May read more…
Tag: Adaptation
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UN hosts High Level event to promote climate action and sustainable development
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday (March 23) held a High Level SDG Action event, titled “Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Agenda”, to invigorate political momentum on climate change and underscore the deep connections between the climate change and sustainable development agendas. This all-day event was hosted in collaboration with the Secretariat of the UNFCCC. read more…
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FOCUS AFRICA – Low emissions, high ambitions. A review of ten African countries’ pledges
The African continent contributes only marginally to climate change in terms of emissions, accounting for an overall 7 per cent share of global emissions. The main contributors are the most industrialized states of South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt. Nonetheless, the most ambitious contributions in terms of INDC-pledged emissions abatement came from less or almost non-polluting read more…
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FOCUS AFRICA – Energy made to export: the case of Algeria
A rentier state with a national GDP almost entirely dependent on hydrocarbons revenues, Algeria is a strategic geopolitical actor for the Mediterranean and Northern African area, and also a likely green energy exports leader in the near future, if policy pledges are to be fulfilled. The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria is today the largest read more…
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FOCUS AFRICA – Increasing gas export in a troubled semi-rentier state: the case of Egypt
Since the beginning of the 2011 revolution and the deposition of President Mubarak, Egypt has entered a new phase of political and social unrest. In 2014 Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi won the general elections by an overwhelming majority yet without experiencing an internal social pacification. In this context Egypt participated in the 2015 COP21 and read more…
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Paris pledges map: countries’ emission targets and adaptation plans post-2020
INDCs are the basis of post-2020 global climate regime envisioned in the Paris Agreement. The term, acronym of “Intended Nationally Determined Contributions”, identifies the actions a national government intends to take – both in term of emission reduction and adaptation efforts – under the deal agreed in December 2015 at the 21st session of the Conference read more…
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FOCUS AFRICA – South Africa: a coal-based economy hanging in the balance between development and CO2 abatement
With nearly 54 million inhabitants and the second biggest GDP in Africa (after Nigeria, which got ahead in 2014), South Africa is a crucial regional actor. The country is a coal-based, energy-intensive economy: according to IEA statistics, in 2014 coal accounted for about 70 percent of the national TPES (total primary energy supply); coal indeed read more…
