Climate change will affect health in most countriesin Asia and the Pacific. It will challenge the publichealth community at the global, regional and nationallevels with emerging diseases and existing diseasesincreasing and spreading geographically. This studyaims to improve the understanding of the humanhealth dimensions of climate...

ADB is responding toclimate hazards and lowcarbonpathways with acomprehensive strategythat strengthens policies,governance, and capacitysupport; expands the useof clean and renewableenergy; encourages sustainable transport and urbandevelopment; promotes development that willbe more resilient to climate change, especially inwater-dependent sectors; and manages land use andforests for carbon sequestration.

Climate change will have significant and diverseimpacts on human health. This paper reviews thecurrent situation and projected climate changeimpacts for respiratory, diarrheal, and vector-bornediseases in Australia. Based on this review, the paper suggests adaptive strategies within the Australianhealth sector and recommends future researchpriorities. 

ActionAsian Development Bank (ADB) published aproceedings report of a climate change workshop onthe theme “Moving from Strategy to Action”, which was organized by its Pacific Department at Nadi inFiji, from October 12 to 13 in 2010. It was attendedby 106 representatives from various stakeholdergroups in Pacific...

As a least developed country with negligiblecarbon dioxide emissions, Nepal does not havemuch to do on the mitigation front. But, how couldthe country with such poverty invest in climatechange adaptation? One of the best sectors to startwould be forests. Of the 760 gigatons of carbonin...

This book broadens and deepens understanding of a wide range of population-climate change linkages. Incorporating population dynamics into research, policymaking and advocacy around climate change is critical for understanding the trajectory of global greenhouse gas emissions, for developing and implementing adaptation plans and thus for...

Working closely with the People’s Republic ofChina and Mongolia and their regional partners,ADB continues to havesubstantial involvementin the region, where it hasbeen at the cutting edgeof climate change-relatedactions.

Organic farming is more profitable and economicallysecure than conventional farming even over the longterm,according to a new study in Agronomy Journal.Using experimental farm plots, researchers withthe University of Minnesota found that organic beatconventional even if organic price premiums (i.e.customers willing to pay more for organic)...

This project briefing explores the potentially life-long impact of climate change and related disasters on the wellbeing of children in South Asia. In a region that accounts for more than one quarter of the world’s children, with 614 million children under 18, girls and boys...

This Oxford Energy and Environment Brief is the first of the two papers by Benito Mller on the theme of Equity and the Durban Platform as recently presented at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. The Brief focuses on the question of how...