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The Watershed Organization Trust (WOTR) released to the Adaptation Committee a set of recommendations arising out of the discussions at COP, which addressed the policy support that local self-government institutions need to effectively build adaptive capacities to climate change in dry lands. The recommendations call...

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Coastal Zone Management Centre carried out a training and capacity building workshop on transboundary protected areas in collaboration with the Bangladesh Forest Department and other stakeholders in Bangladesh. The workshop aimed to share experiences and knowledge, and...

The Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN), Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) organised a dialogue on "Lessons from Bangladesh for a Post-Sandy New York" at Columbia University on January 14. Climate change adaptation experts from Bangladesh shared...

Approximately 150 people took part in the Joint Climate Change Initiative’s Open Seminar in Cambodia on January 23, 2013 listening to voices of community members concerned over a changing climate and degrading natural resources as well as members of national coordination and government, all highlighting...

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and the Rockefeller Foundation jointly conducted a workshop on “Resilient Cities-Experiences from Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) in Asia and Beyond” in New Delhi on January 29. This workshop discussed emerging concepts, approaches, and methodologies that are...

MOST Filipino farmers, fishermen and forest residents are only coping with and not systematically mitigating the impact of climate change, according to a recently released study. In the study titled “Socioeconomics of Climate Change in the Philippines: A Literature Synthesis—1990–2010,” authors Asa Jose Sajise, Merceditas...

Co-funded by the Dutch government (79 per cent), Long An Province (19 per cent), and the International Water Governance Centre (2 per cent), the 385,000 euro (US$495,000) project "Participation in Climate Adaptation" offered measures to fight floods, saltwater intrusion, drought and water pollution. The pilot...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched the Coastal Community Adaptation Project (C-CAP), a new five-year project that will build the resilience of vulnerable communities across 12 Pacific Island countries to climate change. U.S. Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Walter E. North, who...

Pakistan is highly vulnerable to weather-related disasters such as cyclones, droughts, floods, landslides and avalanches. Devastating floods in 2010 disrupted the lives of 20 million people – many more than the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami – and cost $10 billion. The climate change policy, developed...

Farmers in the semi-arid area of India are struggling to survive as rains fail and soil erodes at an estimated 16.3 tons per hectare per year, according to Totally Pradeep, the Institutional Advisor at Samuha, an Indian non-governmental organization (NGO) focusing on health and environmental...