There is growing concern about the potential effects of climate change on the socioeconomic characteristics and natural resources of the Lower Mekong Basin. As a result there is a need for a more understanding of the potential impacts from climate change. In response, the Mekong River Commission (MRC)...

The project entitled Formulation of the National Adaptation Programme of Action to Climate Change (NAPA) aims to develop a realistically achievable country-driven programme of action and priority activities addressing the needs of Cambodia for adapting to the adverse effects of climate change (UNDP, 2003). Specifically, the project’s goals...

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),...

During the last decades, a large number of climate change impact studies on agriculture have been conducted qualitatively and quantitatively in many regions of the Asia-Pacific. Changes in average climate conditions and climate variability will have a significant consequence on crop yields in many parts...

Policy and investment decisions can have implications that extend beyond their initial objective. Local decisions that aim to promote trajectories towards desirable futures at the local scale can alter factors that are determined at higher regional scales. Alterations of regional factors can create feedbacks influencing the characteristics of initial...

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 three-part series authored by award-winningscience journalist John Carey and commissioned bythe Pew Center on Global Climate Change, reportson the link between extreme weather and climatechange. The series details the impacts of extremeweather events, the science behind extreme weather and global warming, and the risks andhow...

  Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) integrates the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services into an overall strategy to help people adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change. It includes the sustainable management, conservation and restoration of ecosystems to provide services that help people adapt to both current climate variability, and 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...

The changing environment is expected to intensify the challenges that people in developing countries are facing, particularly among the groups whose livelihoods depend on natural resources. The adaptive capacity of livelihoods largely defines the extent to which people can cope with future environmental changes, whether caused by climate...