UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, addressing the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (16 to 27 May 2011), pointed out that indigenous peoplen have been living a ‘green economy’ for centuries and learning from them is the key to achieving sustainable development. The forum focused on reviewing the...

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has announced five winners of this year’s UN Champions of the Earth prize, which recognizes leaders who take action through visionary thinking, unwavering dedication and action towards global green growth. The five winners are President Felipe Calderon (Mexico), Dr. Olga...

This booklet provides a summary of the preliminary impact assessment of climate change and development on Mekong flow regimes and recommendations to improve the assessment of these impacts. The results of two global emission scenarios (A2 and B2, IPCC 2000) were downscaled to the regional level covering...

The Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) covers an area of approximately 606,000 km2 within the countries of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Based on the outcomes of recent national and regional studies, there is growing concern about the potential effects of climate change on the socio-economic characteristics...

  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....

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...

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 paper presents the results of an empirical study of the impacts of recurring droughts on indigenous communities in semi-arid districts of western India. It examines the root causes of drought in this region, indigenous peoples’ perceptions of drought-related vulnerabilities in relation to climate change and relevant action...

The Mekong River Commission

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...