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In the Philippines, 53 national agencies have begun the process of "tagging" proposed climate change funding in their 2015 national budget submissions. With over 5% of the total tagged as climate change expenditures, the system intends to make the tracking, strategy and prioritization of the...

The wealth of knowledge gathered over the past five years under the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) Project is now being shared through a range of newly launched resources. All that was learnt over the past five years in carrying out this project, both...

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Naoko Ishii has announced US$256 million in funding for projects on biodiversity, chemicals and wastes, forests and capacity building. The announcement was made on the sidelines of the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States...

During the month of August 2014, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the World Bank reported on various climate finance projects. The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) announced a publication on the ADB's climate finance projects in the Asia-Pacific, and the...

The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and Germany's Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) signed a five-year, €5 million project ahead of the Third International Conference of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). 'Natural Solutions to Climate...

The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) adopted the Funds’ initial investment framework, which is contained in Annex XIV of document GCF/B.07/11. Following on this decision, the Investment Committee of the Board of the Green Climate Fund is considering the following elements for the further...

The fifth and final multi-partite review of the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) Project, scheduled to finish in December 2014, was conducted in Nadi, Fiji. The PACC Project is a partnership funded by Australia and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), with the UN Development...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised 750 million euros ($1 billion) to the United Nations Green Climate Fund, the first major pledge it has received. The fund, designed to channel climate aid to poor nations, has so far only had seed capital to help set itself up. In...

This newly launched website offers posters, stickers, power point presentations, fact sheets, calculators, children activity books, youth guides for careers in climate change, booklets on National Action Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC) among others. There is also an interactive map that presents profiles of institutions...

LEAD Pakistan conducted this training with the objective of enhancing knowledge and technical capacity of DRR practitioners in Pakistan on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. The training sensitized the participants on disaster resilient methodologies and techniques for adaptation, enabling them to better understand...