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Business Environment Reform and Green Growth are two distinct policy domains with their own core objectives and implementation strategies. When and how do they intersect? What are existing approaches to promoting synergies and mitigating trade-offs, particularly in a developing country context? How can policymakers and practitioners from these fields learn from each other?

On 21 March 2018 (2:00 PM CET), the Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) and Italian Society for Climate Sciences (SISC) held a webinar on "Adapting to Climate Change in Europe: Linking Knowledge, Policies and Practices". 

Total reported economic losses resulting from extreme weather in the 33 European Environment and Observation...

On 20 March 2018 (10:00-11:30 CET), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and United Nations Development Programme are holding a webinar on "Ecosystem-based Adaptation and National Adaptation Planning: Opportunities for the Agricultural Sectors".

Designed in coordination with the National University of Singapore acting through its Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the Hertie School of Governance based in Berlin, this course will focus on building coherent policies for sustainable development in context of the 2030 Agenda.

 

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On 15 March 2018 (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT), the Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness and the World Resources Institute are holding a webinar on "PREPdata - Visualizing Data to Build Climate Resilience".

On 15 March 2018 (11:00 EST), the OECD is holding a webinar on "Green Talks LIVE - Leveraging the smart grid to optimise energy consumption".

The Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific at the Asian Institute of Technology, under the Climate Change Asia Initiative, with the support of the UNDP, will host a training programme on the Economics of Climate Change Adaptation, March 12-23 2018, in Bangkok.

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The world faces challenging environmental problems. They are challenging because different people typically contribute differently to environmental change, and because its effects will be felt differently by different people in different places. This free online course will help you understand how injustice is a common feature of many environmental problems.

On 7 March 2018 (2:00-3:00 PM CET), Eye on Earth is holding a webinar on "Introducing the Citizen Science Global Partnership".

Le cours est offert en vue de renforcer les compétences du personnel des Nations unies et des partenaires clés dans la selection, la création, l'utilisation et l'interprétation de données et de statistiques, en mettant l'accent sur l'élaboration et la mise en œuvre des politiques publiques. Il s'appuie sur les méthodes traditionnelles d'analyse de données ainsi que sur les applications plus récentes liées, par exemple, à la technique mobile, au crowdsourcing et aux grandes données.