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The Mekong River Commission

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...

The AIACC project is an enabling activity of the Global Environment Facility in the climate change focal area. Primary funding for the AIACC project was provided by a GEF grant of US$7,500,000. Financial support was also received from the Canadian International Development Agency (US$100,000), the Rockefeller Foundation (US$25,000),...

This publication by the International Institute forEnvironment and Development (IIED) addressesthe degree of transparency in UN-sponsored climatefinance, claiming that transparent reporting onclimate finance is essential for governments toplan mitigation and adaptation activities and forcivil society to hold contributors and recipients toaccount for how climate funds...

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...

How much warming is likely to occur over the next century? More importantly, how much can the Earth system tolerate before critical thresholds are crossed and widespread, abrupt and/or irreversible consequences affect the global climate, environment, and human societies? A number of international assessments point to a threshold...