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Jul 19, 2018
Promoting integrated approaches to Sustainable Development, experts celebrate launch of Poverty-Environment Action programme

(19 July 2018, New York) Participants in the Expert Group Meeting on Promoting Integrated Approaches to Sustainable…
Jun 29, 2018
Integrating the environment into poverty measures to influence policy

Failure to consider and properly measure the relationship between the environment, human wellbeing and poverty constrains the design of effective development policies. An initiative funded by the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme examined how multidimensional measures…
Dec 29, 2017
Poverty-Environment Initiative prepares the way for launch of Poverty-Environment Action for Sustainable Development Goals: Year-end Message from the Co-directors

It’s ‘Blossom Time’ as Poverty-Environment Initiative prepares the way for the launch of Poverty-Environment Action for Sustainable Development Goals

By Anne Juepner and Isabell Kempf, Co-directors, United Nations Development Programme…
Dec 26, 2017
Equity dimensions inform Global Environment Outlook-6

 

The drivers and pressures of environmental degradation are not evenly distributed across society. Nor are the benefits and risks of exposure to, and impacts of, environmental change equitably shared by present and future generations.

The Sustainable Development Goals hold…
Dec 07, 2017
UN Leaders Welcome Renewed Partnership to Implement the Sustainable Development Goals through Pro-Poor Environmental Action

 

Nairobi, 7 December 2017 – As the world committed to a pollution-free planet at the close of the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, UN leadership welcomed the continued partnership between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Environment to implement the…
Nov 01, 2017
UN Interactive Tool Mainstreams Environment and Climate for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development

The Poverty-Environment Initiative, a joint programme of United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Environment Programme, has updated and reissued their 2015 Handbook, now titled Mainstreaming Environment and Climate for Poverty…
Jul 06, 2017
Malawi Launches Poverty Report

 

Malawi has great opportunities to reduce poverty and obtain substantial returns on investments in environmental sustainability shows new study

Malawi is a land-locked country in Africa with a large rural population that is mainly dependent on agriculture. The well-being of…
Jun 23, 2017
Rubaya Green Village generates net benefits of US$21 million and reduce poverty by almost 1%

 

Like many other children from the village, 15 year-old Sandrine, would regularly accompany her mother to collect fire wood and water for the household, an activity traditionally undertaken by women and children. Walking long distances down the steep slopes for up to three hours…
Jun 15, 2017
Accelerating Sustainable Development in Africa Report Connects Poverty-Environment Dots at Green Ministerial Dialogue

 

Livelihoods, poverty reduction efforts and economic growth in Africa are highly dependent on the quality and availability of natural resources, and are thus extremely vulnerable to degradation of those resources and to climate change. …
Mar 28, 2017
World Green Economy Leaders Look for Ways to Combat Environmental Degradation Driving Distress Migration by Sparking a New Green Revolution

Two hundred and fifty million people live and work today outside the country of their birth. Another 750 million migrate within their home lands. Migration is an important driver of development and progress – spreading ideas and driving innovation – but with increasing rates of distress…

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