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The impact of climate change on global peace and security is high on the agenda as world leaders gather at the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow this week.

UNEP DTU Partnership built capacity for climate action finance, introducing tools for NDC implementation.

This month, UNEP DTU Partnership invited Moroccan practitioners from the government, service provider and NGOs to a two-day workshop building capacity for climate action.

Last week’s flash floods in India, Nepal and Spain triggered by heavy rainfall are the latest in a string of water-related disasters from Germany to South Sudan to the United States.

Viet Nam’s rapid urbanization and accompanying fast-paced real estate sector are driving emissions from cooling, which are expected to increase under BAU scenario from 34MTCO2eq in 2017 to 80.7MTCO2eq by 2030. This growth is being driven largely by lack of comprehensive urban planning and municipal enforcement of building standards, awareness/capacity to develop urban cooling projects by governments and financiers, lack of finance for passive cooling interventions, low-level building efficiency codes,  inexpensive electricity, low MEPS for ACs, and low industrial efficiency.

On Tuesday 12th October the High Level Event of the NDC Action Project in Mongolia was held virtually.

The event was opened by Mr. Batbayar Tserendorj, Vice Minister, Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MoET), Government of Mongolia, H.E. Mr. Jörn Rosenberg, Ambassador of Germany to Mongolia, and Ms. Isabelle Louis, Deputy Regional Director, UNEP Asia and the Pacific Office. 

Mrs. Narangaravuu Altangerel, Climate Change Department, Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MoET) set the theme for the event. 

UNFCCC released the updated NDC Synthesis Report on 17th September 2021 ahead of COP26 in November. The report includes an update on all 191 Parties to the Paris Agreement from the previous report back in February 2021. 

For generations, people have combed the sponge-like cloud forests around the city of Xalapa, Mexico for edible mushrooms. But a combination of deforestation and climate-change-related drought have devastated mushroom crops, an important source of income in a region beset by poverty.

This week, scientists and representatives from 195 countries are gathered at the 54^th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to review the world’s most comprehensive assessment of our climate - the Sixth Assessment Report.

1.300 personas fueron capacitadas en Carbono Neutralidad y temas asociados tras ciclo de talleres virtuales

Source: https://cambioclimatico.go.cr/1300-personas-capacitaciones-carbono-neutralidad-talleres-virtuales/&…;

Smallholder farmers in Ghana, who rely primarily on rainfed agriculture, are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In semi-arid northern Ghana, 90% of the population depends on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihoods. The predicted increase in temperature due to climate change could cause a decrease in the length of the wet season, an increase in rainfall intensity (i.e. increased risk of flooding), an increase in the number of dry days per month, and more frequent heatwaves.