The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) has pitched for conservation and cultivation of medicinal plants for climate change adaptation in India at the Conference of Parties (COP22) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The ICFREE underlined the importance of medicinal...
31.10.2016
UNDP Announces New Fund to Support Dry Zone Communities in Sri Lanka
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The Resident Coordinator of the UN in Sri Lanka and the Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme, Ms. Una McCauley, officially announced to the President Maithripala Sirisena, the commencement of the new USD 38.18 million project under the UN Green Climate Fund. This...
31.10.2016
Exchange of learning for climate change adaptation
Around the world, cities and communities are experiencing the effects of climate change. Due to climate change, weather patterns such as, irregular rainfall, temperature etc. are changing. All of these changes directly impact agricultural production and natural biodiversity. To cope with these changes, people have...
31.10.2016
Adapting to climate change: Lessons from Colombo
Earlier this month, the fifth Asia Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum was held in Colombo, Sir Lanka. This year’s theme was “Adapting and Living below 2C.” This is because the UN climate treaty — the Paris Agreement, which goes into force next week — set...
20.10.2016
Adapting to climate change is good business
“Sustainable development – these are two words that the existence of all (the) human race depends on. It (climate change) is becoming a calamity that we have to turn our attention to,” Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena told the 5th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum, hosted...
16.10.2016
GCF approves Paskistan’s $36 million Climate Change Adaptation project
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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved Pakistan’s $36 million Climate Change Adaptation project responding to glacial outburst in northern areas of Pakistan. GCF approved the project in its 14th board meeting, held in the Republic of Korea. The Ministry of Climate Change together with United...
04.10.2016
New Fund to Support Readiness of Climate-Resilient Projects in Southeast Asia
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The Nordic Development Fund (NDF) has contributed €7 million to a newly established multi-donor trust fund—administered by the Asian Development Bank (ADB)— which will help Southeast Asian countries develop a robust portfolio of climate-resilient projects. The Project Readiness Improvement Trust Fund will help countries to strengthen the...
04.10.2016
DA-ACPC turns over P90M credit funds for climate change adaptation
ACPC Executive Director Jocelyn Alma R. Badiola led the turn-over ceremony on September 27, 2016 at the ACPC Office in Pasig City. The CCAFP is a special financing program that aims to encourage small households to cope or adapt to the adverse effects of climate...
14.09.2016
More Vietnamese women’s engagement to climate change adaptation urged
Việt Nam is urged to strengthen the role of women in climate change adaptation and natural disaster risk management, heard a roundtable workshop held earlier today in Hà Nội. The call was made in the context of climate change and natural disasters becoming more complicated...
02.09.2016
Obama To Announce New Climate Change Help For Island Nations
President Barack Obama on Thursday will announce $40 million in programs to help island nations and other communities vulnerable to climate change. Obama addressed the Pacific Island Conference of Leaders and the World Conservation Congress in Honolulu on Wednesday night. On Thursday, he is speaking from the...