28.03.2013
The 3rd Asia Pacific Adaptation Forum was held in Incheon, Korea from March 18 to 20 with over 700 participants from across the region, including government officials, NGOs, researchers and regional and international organisations. It was hosted by the Ministry of Environment of Korea and...
26.03.2013
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) held a capacity building training as part of their ADAPT Asia-Pacific project, in collaboration with Yale University. The training familiarized participants with the methods and data used to analyze the economic benefits...
26.03.2013
For Asia-Pacific countries to survive and thrive in a changing climate, greater efforts are needed to mainstream climate change adaptation into national development policies, moving away from business as usual practices. That was the broad consensus among 500 climate change adaptation experts and practitioners who...
25.03.2013
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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board concluded its third meeting with the adoption of a series of decisions on, among other things, the Board’s rules of procedure, the GCF’s business model framework and resource mobilization, and establishment of its independent secretariat. The meeting, which took...
21.03.2013
The Global Water Partnership (GWP) held a workshop on “Building Climate Resilience in the Bangladesh Delta: Managing for Effective Water Solutions,” which considered Bangladesh’s present vulnerabilities to climate change and discussed long-term adaptation strategies for the coastal delta areas of Bangladesh. According to GWP, Bangladesh’s...
19.03.2013
The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has announced that the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project, jointly funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), is making gender a key consideration in its efforts...
19.03.2013
Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Environment Canada (EC) today announced 12 new projects to help Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean address threats to water resources resulting from a changing climate. The Adaptation Research Initiative in Asia (ARI-Asia) and the Adaptation Research Initiative...
19.03.2013
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New systems for tracking the social impact of efforts to adapt to climate change could soon be in place in Africa and South Asia. Working with policy and research partners in these regions, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (Adaptify and Garama 3C...
19.03.2013
The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) and the German Financial Cooperation (KfW) have signed a programme geared towards reducing the risks of climate change on the Caribbean’s coastal population. The approximately six year Ecosystem-Based Approaches for Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Zones of Small...
18.03.2013
The world of higher education is beginning to recognise adaptation to climate change as a major research topic and an academic discipline, according to one of the world’s leading adaptation specialists, Saleemul Huq. “Adaptation is no longer about analytical framing: it’s a learning-by-doing process,” said...
