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The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$14.6 million grant to help 45,000 Samoans who live in coastal communities adapt to climate change and climate variability. The Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Coastal Resources and Communities Project will develop and implement immediate adaptation activities...

Secretary of State John Kerry says the USA has committed an initial $17 million to helping vulnerable communities in Vietnam adapt to climate change. The funding will be channelled through USAID’s Vietnam Forest and Deltas Program, part of a wider US effort in the region...

ADB initiated an online chat session on 28 November 2013. Extreme weather events like the Typhoon Haiyan are a wake-up call for urgent and immediate actions not only on integrated disaster risk management, but also on addressing climate change. This chat raised the following questions:...

The effects of climate change have cost China US$32.9 billion since 1990, according to the National Development and Reform Commission, the country’s leading planning agency. It warns the country is ill-prepared to deal with the consequences of global warming, and has outlined a national adaptation plan to...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) headquarters were officially opened for business in Songdo, Incheon City, the Republic of Korea. The Fund had been temporarily hosted in Bonn, Germany. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was jointly hosted by Oh‐Seok Hyun, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy and...

Fiji National University has won an international bid to implement a new project called Education for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation (ECCAM). The University has signed two agreements with the European Union to fund the project. The head of the European Union in the Pacific,...

The European Union has today revealed it is to release an additional €4million to address climate change in the Maldives. “Climate change is one of the most pressing development issues that we need to address in today’s world,” said EU Ambassador and Head of Delegation...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Government of the United Kingdom (UK), and the Rockefeller Foundation are teaming up to help Asia’s fast growing secondary cities protect their urban poor from the ravages of climate change. “The region’s cities are going through an unprecedented population...

The Pacific region faces serious economic losses due to climate change and it is critical that nations causing the problem step in to help, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday. A new report by the bank released in Sydney, "Economics of Climate Change in the...

Addressing a ministerial meeting on the sidelines of the Warsaw Climate Change Conference, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has underscored the importance of climate finance for addressing climate change, saying it can both fuel confidence in the negotiations and scale up action on the ground. In turn, a new...