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Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) Chairman VP Jejomar Binay approved on Monday, 24 February, the guidelines for action in incorporating measures to reduce disaster and climate change risks into sector-specific policy of land use planning. Present during this historic opportunity were the members...

The European Union (EU) with the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) have signed a financing agreement for Adapting to Climate Change and Sustainable Energy (ACSE) programme worthFJ$90.8m. The ACSE programme will help the 15 Pacific ACP countries (Cook Islands, East-Timor, Fiji, Kiribati, , Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic...

During the month of February, the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the...

Aditi Kapoor of Alternative Futures presents her organisation’s work to make Indian States’ climate plans more sensitive to gender issues – with CDKN support. Are women really invisible? Or does the government not know that both women and men are climate survivors and climate warriors,...

Private sector participation and financing is key to the overall Climate Investment Funds (CIF) strategy. Although there has been tangible progress in encouraging private sector investment in the area of energy efficiency and clean technologies, more can be done to engage and encourage private sector investments in the areas...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia.– Policy roundtable participants from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam agreed to review and build on a proposed regional project of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) of Cambodia titled Fostering cooperation to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate...

  The inception meeting for a three-year multi-million dollar climate resilience project was held at the headquarters of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) in Apia, Samoa this week, bringing together donors, partners and Pacific countries to strengthen planning as the project...

In 2008 and 2010, the price of many basic food stuffs soared, sparking a series of riots and food crises around the world. People in the poorest countries – those living with the smallest margins – were most affected, while the economies of developed nations were able...

Community leaders from Daku Village of the Rewa Delta area, today formally committed their community’s participation in a climate change adaptation activity, delivered through USAID’s Coastal Community Adaptation Project (USAID/C-CAP). As part of the agreement, Daku will receive infrastructure support for their drainage management system...

The Global Forum on Using Country Systems to Manage Climate Change Finance gathered over 170 participants from ministries of finance, planning and environment to share climate finance effectiveness lessons. Development partners, civil society organizations (CSOs), and representatives from the UNFCCC and the Green Climate Fund...