At a time when glacier melting is a burning issue in Pakistan, experts have highlighted the emerging climate-change challenges, and steps that can be taken to reduce threats of floods in Northern Pakistan. To mitigate the risks caused by sudden discharge of a huge volume...

Understanding the cost associated with climate change adaptation interventions in agriculture is important for mobilising institutional support and providing timely resources to improve resilience and adaptive capacities. Top-down national estimates of adaptation costs carry a risk of mismatching the availability of funds with what is...

An article published in Inter Press Service (IPS) is about Indian tribals reverting to their traditional farming methods of mixed cropping with traditional seeds, grain banks—with improvements—as an adaption to unpredictable monsoons in these dry lands. Tribal farmer Harish Saraka has rediscovered the key to sustainable...

This report reveals that biodiversity in Asia and the Pacific is in decline in all types of ecosystems, with the rate of species loss about twice the global average. It also provides examples of promising approaches for sustainably managing natural capital in the region. These...

Executive Summary South Asia is especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change because of fragile ecosystems, potential for glacial melt, low-lying land areas, and large poor and remote village populations. Many communities have already experienced problems due to climate change such as Glacial Lake...

Executive Summary Delegates of the national and local governments from Southeast Asia and South Asia participated in the two-day training workshop on climate change mitigation and adaptation hosted by the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability....

Report Summary As defined by the South Asia Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC), South Asia consists of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It is also the home to about one-fourth of the world’s population, supported by an unequitable share...

Introduction Mountains today have 12 per cent of the global population, but provide water and other services to about 50 per cent of the population. As a source of biodiversity, water, clean energy, provider of ecosystem services, culture and tourism and above all livelihood to...

This paper is a product of the Transport, Energy& Urban Sustainable Development Unit, East Asiaand Pacific Region and addresses the increasinglyimportant issue of urban flooding. Disaster statisticsappear to show that floods are becoming morefrequent, with medium-scale flooding increasingfastest. The impact of this is driven by...

This policy brief from the Asian Development Bankexplains how the adoption of timely policies andprograms can convert environmental migrationfrom a threat into an opportunity to promoteimproved livelihoods and sustainable development.An ADB project that is developing policy andfinancing responses to environmental migration hasdetermined that climate change...