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  The Australian National University will open this course with the objective of providing participants with an understanding of how to reconstruct past environments and the implications this information might have for the conservation and survival of life on Earth. The three week course will...

  RIMES is organising this training course with an aim to build participants’ understanding and skills in designing and implementing their early warning systems and creating risk management and contingency plans tailored to their own needs. This training will also bring in future collaboration opportunities...

  Empirical research on existing synergies and concrete pilot studies is suggested to showcase under which criteria and how synergies between adaptation and mitigation can be harnessed and trade-offs avoided in the best possible way. A practical first step could be for existing funds to...

  Initial findings from a field research undertaken by the University of Dhaka inform that instead of looking at migration as a failure to adapt it can be viewed as one of the strategies of adaptation. It recommends that Bangladesh’s National Adaptation Programme of Action,...

With its history of experiencing extreme weather conditions, Surat, India, will build a knowledge base to better support evidence-based local interventions under the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN). The Centre will conduct research on health risks associated with vectorborne diseases as well as...

After the Asian tsunami hit the Andaman and Nicobar islands in 2004, destroyed houses needed to be rebuilt. But they weren’t just rebuilt with better materials. The repaired houses and assets became jointly owned by women. “When that woman faces the next disaster, she has...

The country is already one of the most vulnerable in the world to flooding and storm surges. Torrential rain last year left over 100 dead and 250,000 stranded. And compared to the USA post Hurricane Sandy, it takes Bangladesh more time to ‘bounce back’ from...

  Khel observed that capacity building is not only required regarding climate change related research and the meteorological department, but also important for institutions relevant to energy, water and food security. These actions will help achieve the government’s priorities, such as a National Adaptation Plan...

  Viet Nam's response to climate change will focus on adaptation, which would be mainly funded by State budget. This left the other approach to climate change, mitigation, open for engagement by the private sector as it concerns technology changes, and low-carbon energy technologies in...

Over 100 climate change adaptation (CCA) experts, practitioners and government officials from nearly 30 Asia-Pacific countries shared insights to accessing international financing for CCA at a recent USAID funded ADAPT Asia-Pacific session. The session entitled “Accessing climate change and adaptation finance: International lessons, national concerns,...