A roundtable at ICIMOD on August 23 brought together national stakeholders from Nepal, including representatives of government, NGOs, and international organizations working on migration to discuss the role of labour migration in adaptation to environmental and socio-economic changes in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. Over...
A scientific and practical conference on “Strengthening Cross-sectoral Integration in the Climate Risks Management of Kazakhstan” was held in Almaty from August 23 to 24 as part of the multi-country capacity building project “Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land Management” and the UNDP programme “Climate...
The UNDP’s “Climate Risk Management in Kazakhstan” project conducted a seminar titled “Developing Capacities to Introduce Effective Agricultural Practices to Help Create “Green” Jobs and Reduce Climate Risks” in the city of Semey from September 3 to 4. The workshop was held under the framework...
The Pacific Climate Change Portal (www.pacificclimatechange.net) was launched on 6 September at the 43rd SPREP meeting in Noumea, New Caledonia. Organizations and climate change practitioners are welcome to provide contributions to the portal. Please email makelesig@sprep.org.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been working on climate change in Asia and the Pacific for nearly two decades and its strategy places addressing the climate change challenge at the strategic and operational core of the organization. Its strategy also calls for private sector...
The CIRCLE-2 Joint Initiative is promoting a workshop on Uncertainty and Climate Change Adaptation to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from November 8 to 9. The main goals of this event are to promote discussion, and contribute scientific insight by calling for the submission 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...
The European Climate Change Adaptation Conference 2013 is an initiative of a number of major European research projects. This will be the first European conference which covers the broad range of issues related to climate change adaptation, and follows international conferences in Australia (Gold Coast,...
Teams from the Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Programme (HICAP)—a pioneering collaboration between Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo (CICERO), ICIMOD, and UNEP/GRID-Arendal supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs aimed at contributing to enhanced resilience of mountain communities in the Hindu Kush Himalayan...
The development of adaptive forms of governance and innovative adaptation strategies and activities to increase the resilience of communities and economies is fundamental for improving water governance at all levels. Strengthening the planning, legal and management frameworks for adaptive water management, and creating or reinforcing...