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...
19.11.2017
ASEAN to implement work plan for disaster risk reduction and climate change
ASEAN officials in charge of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) committed themselves to strengthening integration of actions in their respective agencies that will effectively address disaster risk and climate change, with particular focus on water-related disasters including flood, storm, landslide and...
19.11.2017
Climate Change Adaptation And Development In Bangladesh: Social Dimensions In Focus
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Climate change has become one of the most debated topics of this century because of the increasing risk it poses to the sustenance of human race. This change influences long term footprints and also sudden extreme events like storms, floods, droughts of severe frequency and...
19.11.2017
Philippines’ Legarda named climate change adaptation champ at COP23
An international environment treaty has named Sen. Loren Legarda as a National Adaptation Plan (NAP) champion during the 23rd UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany. Legarda’s designation as a NAP champion was the “first in the process” of the UN Framework Convention on...
16.11.2017
Gender and Protection Must be ‘Central’ to Climate Change Adaptation for Sustainable Development in the Pacific
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Reducing the risks from climate change and disasters would be futile if it does not reduce the risks to those who are most disproportionately impacted. Therefore, climate change and disaster risk reduction (CCDRR) must ensure that the protection of life, security, and dignity of all...
16.11.2017
European Union supports Timorese rural communities to adapt to climate change
Communities of Luro in Lautem municipality, Timor-Leste, gathered on October 28th 2017 for the handover ceremonies of five rainwater harvesting tanks. The tanks, made of ferro-cement can hold 10,000 liters of rain and spring water and provides water to 15-20 household members for group-managed horticulture...
08.08.2017
Nepal: Investment in climate change adaptation yielding results
The government investment to help farmers adapting with the impacts of climate change is bearing fruits, recent studies have reported. Such investment has positive impact on the income level of the climate change vulnerable farmers, concluded the study jointly conducted by the Ministry of Agricultural...
04.08.2017
UNDP head welcomes flow of GCF funds to the Maldives
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While surrounded by water, many people in the outer islands of the Maldives suffer from recurring water supply emergencies. Variable rainfall patterns and increasing salinization caused by rising sea levels have led to a dearth of drinking water. GCF’s disbursement of funds to this project will bolster an...
04.08.2017
Global Green Climate Fund helps Vietnamese coastal communities improve climate resilience
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...
04.08.2017
Government of Tuvalu launches new coastal protection project to bolster resilience to climate change
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UNDP-supported, Green Climate Fund (GCF) financed project will benefit one in three people in one of the world’s most vulnerable Small Island Developing States With an average elevation of only 1.83 meters, Tuvalu is distinctly vulnerable to rising sea levels and intensifying tropical storms...