GFDRR was established in September 2006
as a global partnership of the World Bank, UN agencies and
bilateral donors, located in World Bank headquarters in
Washington, DC. Its missions are (a) to mainstream disaster
reduction and climate change adaptation (CCA) in country
development strategies, and (b) to foster and strengthen
global and regional cooperation among various stakeholders
under the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

The provention consortium was created in
February 2000 as a formal partnership between the World
Bank, other International Financial Institutions (IFIs),
bilateral donor organizations, the insurance sector, the
academic community, and civil society. Designed as a
think-tank to commission research and to disseminate risk
reduction tools, the provention secretariat was to rotate
from one partner organization to another. Thus, after three

Pastoralist and hunter-gatherer communities in Tanzania are gaining rights to own and control their land as the foundation for generating new income through REDD+ 

The E-Newsletter consists of three stories: international experience in seed quality control and certification shared in Georgia; farm registry pilot project in Racha region; world deforestation slows down as more forests are better managed.

Meeting symbol/code: FO:LACFC/2015/1
Session: Sess. 29

Meeting symbol/code: FO:LACFC/2015/10
Session: Sess. 29

健健康的土壤是陆地上最大的碳 库。采用可持续方式管理的土壤 可以通过储存碳（碳封存）和减 少大气中的温室气体排放而起到 减缓气候变化的重要作用。相反，如果土壤管 理不善或采用不可持续的农作方法，土壤中的碳 则会以二氧化碳（CO2）的形式释放到大气中， 导致气候变化

La Conferencia de Desarrollo Sostenible de Naciones Unidas de 2012 (Río+20) destacó la urgencia de enfrentar uno de los retos más urgentes y, a la vez, más complejos del paradigma del desarrollo sustentable: la conciliación entre la producción de alimentos, la seguridad alimentaria y la conservación del ambiente.

Almost every nation is now a signatory to the Convention on Climate Change. The first Conference of Parties (COP) was held in Berlin in 1995. Two decades since, we have come a long way, but we have yet to reach the ultimate objective of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would end human-induced influence on the climate. While the COP negotiations are landmark events for humankind, many experts who work in the field and are not directly involved in the negotiations cannot claim to comprehend what is being discussed.

Meeting symbol/code: FO:LACFC/2015/10
Session: Sess. 29

Meeting symbol/code: FO:LACFC/2015/4
Session: Sess. 29

Les sols sains constituent le plus grand réservoir de carbone sur la terre. Quand ils sont gérés de façon durable, les sols peuvent jouer un rôle important en faveur de l’atténuation du changement climatique, en stockant le carbone (séquestration) et en diminuant les émissions de gaz à effet de serre dans l’atmosphère.