Organised by the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network, this webinar is the fourth of a series of webinars for regional climate change adaptation practitioners and policymakers on the important outcomes and themes emerging out of COP 26. The first three webinars focused on Locally-Led Adaptation, Loss...
17.10.2022
Speakers during the APAN Webinar, Connecting the dots: climate change and biodiversity interlinkages in Asia-Pacific, from science to policy and practice, 22 September 2022, Zoom. Photo: UNEP-APAN Through the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) webinar, “Connecting the dots: climate change and biodiversity interlinkages...
03.08.2022
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Speakers during APAN Webinar on Understanding loss and damage in the Asia and Pacific: science, policy, and mechanisms to avert, minimize, and address impacts held last 21 July 2022 via Zoom. The Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) tackled loss and damage through the webinar,...
07.05.2018
With significant economic growth over recent decades, Viet Nam is widely considered a development success story. Once one of the poorest nations in the world, the country of almost 100 million citizens is now lower middle-income with aspirations of becoming industrialized by the year 2020....
30.01.2018
The Vietnamese Mekong Delta is one of Earth’s most agriculturally productive regions and is of global importance for its exports of rice, shrimp, and fruit. The 18m inhabitants of this low-lying river delta are also some of the world’s most vulnerable to climate change. Over...
29.11.2017
Implementation of Viet Nam’s first project funded by the Green Climate Fund, 'Improving resilience of vulnerable coastal communities to climate change-related impacts in Viet Nam', took a step forward today with completion of an inception workshop. Valuing more than US$29 million in grant finance, the project adopts...
04.08.2017
More than 500,000 people living in coastal zones in Viet Nam are annually affected by typhoons. Many of them are very poor and live in unsafe houses. Families like that of 77-year-old Mr. Pham Van Ton in Hai Loc commune of Thanh Hoa Province live...
USAID Mekong ARCC worked with implementing partners to identify the environmental, economic, and social effects of climate change in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB), and to assist highly exposed and vulnerable rural populations in ecologically sensitive areas to increase their ability to adapt to climate...
After two-year effort to strengthen community adaptation capacity to the negative impacts of climate change, USAID Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (USAID Mekong ARCC) project engaged World Resources Institute Vulnerability and Adaptation Expert, Moushumi Chaudhury, to capture lessons learned from implementing the adaptation...
19.01.2016
Vietnam will allocate more resources, enhance international cooperation, and strictly implement targets of the 21st UN Climate Change Conference. Vietnam will increase international cooperation to draw financial and technical assistance to its climate change response activities. Favorable conditions since 2015 Last year the Vietnamese government...