The Scaling up Climate Ambition on Land Use and Agriculture through NDCs and NAPs (SCALA) programme is organizing a webinar on integrating climate resilience in value chain analysis. The webinar aims to:
The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis is now out. The report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations.
How familiar are you with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals? What are daily actions that you can do to take action on Water and Sanitation and Climate Action and in your community? Join to find out!
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
Small island nations are highly vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters; among them hurricanes, cyclones, and other violent storms. These disasters can lead to severe flooding, landslides, and, in the worst cases, can result in the loss of life and property. In addition, a rise in the global mean sea level places island nations at a higher risk for permanent submersion of land, coastal erosion, coastal ecosystem loss or change, salinization, and impeded drainage.
4 June 2021 – The world is still grappling with the profound economic, social, and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. These impacts offer a glimpse of what the land use and agriculture sectors will endure if a systemic transformation towards climate resilience is not achieved by 2030. To tackle this challenge, FAO and UNDP are making sure COVID-19 considerations and green recovery are central to countries’ climate action plans for agriculture.
Achieving the goals of the Paris agreement will require halving global emissions by 2030 and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Achieving this will require strong and rapid action, not only by governments but also by the private sector and citizens.
The World Adaptation Science Programme (WASP) is a UN-wide initiative by UNEP, WMO, UNFCCC, IPCC, GCF and the GEF, focusing on bridging the knowledge gap and strengthening the science-policy interface in the field of climate adaptation. The WASP was launched at the UNFCCC COP24 in Katowice, Poland, in December 2018, under leadership of its first Chair, Jian Liu.
The Youth 4 Climate Action Project (Y4CAP) delivered a successful workshop to over 1,000 students at Tilak High School in Fiji to raise awareness on climate change, marine ecosystems, the Sustainable Development Goals, and leadership. In continuation of the awareness campaign on good environmental practices, a sandalwood planting exercise was also conducted at the school.