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The Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) has reported on the conclusion of Acclimate, a four-year project dedicated to climate change adaptation. The culmination of the project’s work, a regional strategy for climate change adaption, was adopted by the IOC’s 28th Council of Ministers on 17 January...

Despite being disproportionately affected by climate change, women and girls are getting relatively little attention and money in Bangladesh’s climate adaptation initiatives, activists and negotiators say. The Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund, financed with Tk 25 billion ($305 million) from the national budget, has financed...

The UN Development Programme’s (UNDP) Asia-Pacific office has published a discussion paper, titled “National Climate Funds: Learning from the Experience of Asia-Pacific countries.” The paper was released together with seven case studies examining national climate funds (NCFs), mechanisms to direct finance towards climate change projects...

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved funding of a project that aims to enhance government capacity to mitigate climate-related hazards in Nepal by improving the accuracy and timeliness of weather and flood forecasts and warnings for climate-vulnerable communities. Funded by a Strategic...

UNESCO and Samsung are launching a US$ 1 million two-year project to develop, pilot and distribute multimedia teacher-training materials on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Viet Nam. Funded by Samsung, UNESCO’s largest country-level ESD intervention, the project involves piloting teacher-training materials in primary schools...

The state of Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, has experienced a tremendous number of natural disasters, which are becoming worse as a result of climate change. After the 1999 “super cyclone”, drastic measures were taken to turn the situation around and help the locals adapt. This publication details how...

With the aim to enable the poorest and most vulnerable communities from the Mid- and Far-Western regions to adapt to the climate change impact, the government has approved Nepal Climate Change Support Programme (NCCSP). The programme will be implemented within a couple of months.

The largest city in Bangladesh intends to employa sustainable urban water management system,specifically requiring new buildings to installrooftop water harvesting systems, to curb the city’sworsening water shortages. Surveys performed bythe Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA)show that Dhaka requires 2.4 billion liters of watera day,...

Climate change projections for Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines are being developed by climate scientists at a workshop in Melbourne The workshop is part of a year-long project being carried out by the CSIRO Climate Adaptation National Research Flagship and the Indonesian Bureau of Meteorology (BMKG)...

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