Rationale The focus of this workshop was on on enhancing countries capacity to access financial resources for climate change. This was based upon the outcomes of an earlier consultation, held in Apia, Samoa (February 2012), with Pacific Islands Climate Change focal points and experts. In...
Rationale Southeast Asia is annually affected by climate extremes, particularly floods, droughts and tropical cyclones, while large areas of the region are highly prone to flooding and influenced by moonsons.The IPCC 4th Assessment Report states that Southeast Asia is expected to be seriously affected by...
Keio University and APAN are hosting the third annual Environmental Innovators symposium to clear some of the uncertainty about action and methods for building resilience by bringing together practitioners who are testing new methods and taking action in the field with significant projects. While there...
The workshop was organized to streamline and institutionalize learning as a key organizational strategy for WWF Nepal. Climate change adaptation was selected as a first thematic area to incorporate learning practices in the initial phase. The workshop was attended by 22 participants, primarily from WWF...
More than 130 stakeholders from 37 different institutes of 12 Indian Himalayan states, representatives of seven State Governments, 27 experts from various national and State-level institutions, representatives of NGOs/Civil Society organizations, and senior officers of Central Ministries took part in a two-day stakeholders’ workshop at...
Over 200 women and men from all over the world gathered in Thimphu, Bhutan, to set new agendas for gender-positive change in natural resource management in the context of the rapidly changing mountain conditions. A decade after the success of the ‘Celebrating Mountain Women’ conference...
Southern Voices and CAN International will co-facilitate a Joint Workshop on Climate Change Advocacy in Doha, Qatar, from November 21 to 23. For CAN-I nodes, the workshop will serve as this year’s pre-COP workshop, similar to those arranged prior to COP16 (Mexico) and COP17 (Addis...
Since the first Agriculture Day in 2009, a consortium of the world’s most influential agricultural groups, including research, civil society, the private sector, and farmers groups, have joined to successfully raise awareness of the role of agriculture in the climate debate. Now, agriculture has received...
The Research Center for Climate Change Adaptation (RCCCA) of Keio University conducted an educational programme for students including a fieldwork and workshop in the Horqin Sandy Land from 25 August to 3 September 2012. The Horqin Sandy Land, which is placed in Inner Mongolia of...
What are the latest approaches to mainstreaming community-based adaptation into international, national, and local planning and processes? IIED’s CBA7 Conference aims to gather climate scientists, policy-makers and practitioners to answer this question, and to share the lessons learned. To be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from...