The Kailash Sacred Landscape (KSL) spreads across a vast region that includes remote parts of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and contiguous areas of Nepal and India. This area is historically, ecologically, and culturally interconnected; it is the source of four of Asia’s most...

This briefing paper highlights that impacts from climate change and global warming are already being felt, and will become increasingly inevitable in the future unless there is a rapid reduction in emissions coupled with scaled up support for adaptation. Climate change will result in devastating...

In the final of a series of guest articles for CDKN about the Nepal Climate Smart Trek, Nepali journalist Saroj Dhakal interviews British Council Climate champion, Saurav Dhakal on his experience of completing the Great Himalayan Trail, and what he thinks is needed to promote...

This new research paper discusses the contexts of and recent negotiations in Technology Transfer, Sustainable Development and Climate Change. In terms of proprietary rights, the author categorizes technologies and related products into three domains: the Public Technologies; Patented Technologies and Future Technologies. After revealing the...

Rural mountain communities are highly vulnerable to the changes occurring in their landscape due to climatic and other factors (including demographic changes and migration). If they could understand the complexities of their respective ecosystems, they would be able to better value, utilize, and conserve the...

In the next few months, Nepal will start implementing local adaptation plans for climate vulnerable communities in its impoverished far- and mid-western region under the National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA). NAPAs, submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, provide a process for...

Traditional knowledge has proven to be compatible with scientific knowledge, and despite its local nature, it includes techniques that demonstrate great potential to meet the challenges of climate change expected over the coming decades. These cultures, therefore, have much to contribute to climate change adaptation...

On her return from a UNFCCC Regional Workshop in Bangkok, Kashmala Kakakhel, CDKN Project Manager, explains in a CDKN blog how loss and damage is progressing within the climate talks. It is widely accepted that existing mitigation commitments and actions will not prevent dangerous climate...

Published by the Regional Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform for Asia (AKP) in October 2012, this report summarizes the findings of the case studies on the determinants and effectiveness of local-level adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh. Conducted from February to June 2012, the case...

This study investigates the effects of climate and socioeconomic changes on the livelihoods of mountain people in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan (HKH) region, causes of vulnerability, and the various ways in which people cope with and adapt to change, with the overall aim of contributing to...