01.12.2015
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Meeting ahead of the United Nations climate conference in Paris, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board, announced today that it approved $168 million of its funding for projects and programmes worth $624 million, marking the end of its launch phase and kick-starting the flow of climate finance...
25.11.2015
Developing countries will have to pay $270bn extra each year to adapt to the impacts of climate change if global pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions do not increase, according to a new report by Oxfam. Plans submitted by more than 170 countries ahead of crunch UN...
18.11.2015
Thomson Reuters Foundation/All Africa Global Media Global investment in activities to reduce planet-warming emissions and vulnerability to climate change grew 18 percent to $391 billion in 2014, as private backing for renewable energy technologies surged, researchers said. More money than ever before was channelled into...
17.11.2015
The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has highlighted its Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) approach, which is contributing to climate change adaptation in Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, ridge-to-reef management in the Solomon Islands, and tree planting in the Solomon Islands. Other SPREP activities...
05.11.2015
Local government units (LGUs) and community organizations may now submit climate change adaptation (CCA) proposals for funding under Republic Act 10174 or the People’s Survival Fund (PSF) Law. Such proposals should effectively address the impact of the earth’s warming temperature, says Sen. Loren Legarda. Legarda...
27.10.2015
A United Nations climate change adaptation initiative for least developed countries will be broadened in October 2015 to include all developing countries ahead of the landmark climate change meeting that will take place in Paris later this year. Developing countries are invited to submit requests...
26.10.2015
Participants of the USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific supported 9th Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) Exchange Series and ‘live’ online chat session agreed that countries need to improve cross-institutional cooperation to better implement climate change adaptation activities. Over a two-week period (5 – 20 August 2015), Dr. Peter King, USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific’s Senior Advisor...
26.10.2015
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a $24.25 million grant to help Papua New Guinea (PNG) build up its resilience and responsiveness to the impacts of climate change. The project grant, from ADB’s Strategic Climate Fund, will help PNG’s Strategic Program for Climate Resilience...
21.10.2015
Development banks including the World Bank have pledged an additional US$15 billion (S$20.9 billion) a year by 2020 to fight climate change, taking the world closer to the clutch target of US$100 billion, officials said on Friday (Oct 9). Just two months before key United...
20.10.2015
THE Aquino administration has earmarked P132 billion for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the proposed 2016 budget in order to build the resilience of vulnerable communities against the devastating impact of climate change, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said Sunday....
