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Climate Change Commission Secretary and Vice-Chair Mary Ann Lucille L. Sering urged local government units to come up with programs that would help their communities adapt to the effects of climate change.  With Sering’s call came the assurance that the national government has set aside...

The United States government has pledged US$9.7 million (MVR 149 million) to the Maldives as technical assistance for climate change adaptation and election preparations. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the two nations was signed yesterday afternoon (July 7) by Maldives Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador-at-large Abdul...

Pacific Island leaders meeting in Fiji this week aim to lay the foundations for a regional plan to cope with the increasingly severe impacts of climate change. The four-day Pacific Climate Change Roundtable brings together 21 countries at acute risk from rising sea levels and...

The Micronesian island state of Yap is small and remote, about 21 hours of flying from North Carolina without counting airport stops along the way. “Paradise, if you can find it,” the Los Angeles Times once wrote. But there’s trouble in paradise. Queens University of...

Efforts by rich countries to give $100bn (£66bn) a year of 'climate aid' direct to companies, bypassing poorer countries' governments, have suffered a setback. The UN's fledgling Green Climate Fund (GCF) is designed to transfer money in the future from the developed to developing world, to tackle the...

The governing Council of the Least Developed Countries Fund and the Special Climate Change Fund (LDCF/SCCF) today received a combined $198 million in new pledges, bringing total international commitments for investment in climate change adaptation programs in some of the world’s poorest regions to more...

The Plan International has developed a set of knowledge products, newsletter and videos that feature various issues related children and climate change adaptation. Please click the links below for detailed information. ·Climate extreme and child rights in South Asia: A neglected priority:  http://www.odi.org.uk/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/7832.pdf ·Childhood vulnerability...

The Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) Pakistan has developed two local adaptation plans of action (LAPAs) for two districts in Pakistan – Muzaffargarh and Thatta – under its Climate Leadership for Effective Adaptation and Resilience (CLEAR) project. This aims to facilitate poor and vulnerable...

With South Asia close to the equator, the sub-continent would see much higher rises in sea levels than higher latitudes, with the Maldives confronting the biggest increases of between 100-115 centimeters warns a World Bank scientific report launched today. The consequences on livelihoods and health could be...

Agri experts at a function urged farmers to cultivate climate-change adapting crops in disaster prone areas to boost food production of the country. As our country has been experiencing adverse impact of climate change over the last few years, creating a grave concern to agriculture,...