07.03.2016
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The Cook Islands have received financial resources from the Green Climate Fund to strengthen their capacity to access finance through GCF. With this disbursement, Cook Islands are the first country in the Pacific region and the first Small Island Developing State (SIDS) to receive such...
26.02.2016
Climate related projects worth more than Rs 100 crore which were submitted by five states including Jammu and Kashmir and Mizoram were approved by the Union Environment Ministry today. The Ministry which held its 9th meeting of National Steering Committee on Climate Change (NSCCC) gave...
19.01.2016
Vietnam will allocate more resources, enhance international cooperation, and strictly implement targets of the 21st UN Climate Change Conference. Vietnam will increase international cooperation to draw financial and technical assistance to its climate change response activities. Favorable conditions since 2015 Last year the Vietnamese government...
12.01.2016
Expected climate change makes improving agricultural practices even more important than many already suggest, according to a new study of Bangladesh, considered one of the most at-risk nations from rising temperatures. Moreover, climate vagaries may mean that the popular prescription of diversifying farming products will...
12.01.2016
Outside of the legal and specialised professions, the words “shall” and “should” are mostly interchangeable in everyday layman use. According to Oxford dictionaries, one meaning of should is “indicating a desirable or expected state” while one definition of shall is “expressing an instruction, command, or...
22.12.2015
In an effort to leverage new technology and reach more of its implementing partners around the world in one place, the Adaptation Fund has expanded its Climate Finance Readiness Program to include a new webinar series. The Fund already conducts regional workshops directly in developing countries that...
04.12.2015
India would require over $1 trillion in the next 15 years to adapt to the adverse impacts of the climate change, a latest study said.The study, jointly prepared by IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Gandhinagar and the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), identifies India's preliminary...
04.12.2015
As the United Nations (UN) climate change negotiations entered its fourth day here, the Philippines called for adaptation funds that will not result in additional financial burden for Filipinos. The country’s lead negotiator for adaptation and director of the Climate Change Office of the Department...
04.12.2015
A broad coalition of nations, river basin organizations, business and civil society recently announced the creation of the international Paris Pact on Water and Climate Change Adaptation to make water systems – the very foundation of sustainable human development – more resilient to climate impacts....
01.12.2015
Eleven donors have pledged close to $250 USD million in new money for adaptation support to the most vulnerable countries on the planet giving a welcome boost to the start of the climate talks here in Paris. Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden,...
