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The World Bank’s leading official for the Asia-Pacific region has highlighted the Bank’s support for action on climate change, insurance and disaster risk management, as Pacific leaders meet this week in the Marshall Islands. Axel van Trotsenburg is the new World Bank Regional Vice President...

The IGES Regional Centre based in Bangkok is seeking a dynamic person with strong interest and relevant experience in knowledge management, event planning, and handling external affairs for the position of Knowledge Management Coordinator. The successful candidate will be primarily responsible for coordinating and implementing...

The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) is calling for expressions of interest for regional-based multi-disciplinary research and capacity building in the themes of climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and loss and damage. Areas might focus on agriculture, ecosystems, disaster prevention; gap analyses...

A BBC survey across seven Asian countries finds 84 percent of Bangladeshi respondents are feeling the impact of climate change on their household income. Almost one-third of the respondents are experiencing extreme weather events, changing livelihoods, and migrating to cities for work and struggling to...

The President of Kiribati, Anote Tong, says his country is looking at a number of strategies to try and cope with sea level rise. The other two Pacific nations most threatened by climate change, Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands, say the question of relocation should...

To mitigate the impact of calamities, the World Food Program (WFP) has expanded its Disaster Preparedness and Response program on the island by adding a climate change adaptation component. “This new focus complements WFP’s aim of strengthening the resilience of local government and communities,” WFP...

The Government of Tuvalu and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has today signed an agreement to continue to partner on climate change adaptation work in Tuvalu. This marks the commencement of the second climate change adaptation project in Tuvalu that responds to adaptation priorities...

Development Alternatives, an organisation working to promote natural resource management in the climate sensitive Bundelkhand region of Central India has successfully formed several farmers' clubs to help the rural community adopt climate resilient agricultural techniques. Farmers receive training on water efficient irrigation practices like drip...

Two researchers from International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), conducting a study on adaptive capacity across farming systems report on their ongoing fieldwork on food security and gender in Assam, India. Place-based studies are a specific format being used by Center for International Climate...

A team of experts from International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and Aaranyak have installed flood early warning systems (FEWS) enabled by wireless technology along the Jiadhal and Singara rivers in Assam, India. The installation carried out under the Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Programme...