Nepal, along with over 150 other nations, signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. Nepal ratified the Convention on 2nd  May in 1994, and this convention came into...

Climate change presents additional obstacles to ending poverty and achieving social justice. Rising temperatures, increasingly erratic rainfall, and more frequent and severe floods, cyclones and droughts all have significant consequences for the livelihood security of poor people; and development professionals are seeing first-hand the effects of a...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through the Communication for Sustainable Development Initiative (CSDI), has consolidated a framework on ComDev as a CBA approach to climate change. To enrich ComDev for CBA as a technical field and discipline, FAO-CSDI has piloted...

This document aims to improve understanding about adaptation to climate change within development agencies, their partners and the other institutions/individuals working in the development community. In particular, it is designed to stimulate broader engagement and debate on key issues around development and climate change adaptation,...

Scientists are clear that climate change is happening, and that it is due to emissions of greenhouse gases produced largely by industrialised countries. Those likely to be worst affected are the world’s poorest countries, especially poor and marginalised communities within these countries. Ironically it is...

  This study will project climate change effects such as temperature, sea level and rainfall patterns in Singapore in the next century, and the impacts of such effects like increased flooding and impacts on water resources. The study team is led by the Tropical Marine Science Institute of National University...

This paper examines and analyzes the developments in the context of the ASEAN region, at the regional and national levels. It focuses on (i) the different forms of adaptation measures and the importance of mainstreaming; (ii) projected scenarios and their relevant impacts; (iii) adaptation within the...

Singapore submitted its Second National Communication on Climate Change report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat in Nov 2010. The report is an update of the first National Communication report submitted in 2000, and details the strategies for managing sustainable...

In this chapter, we look at the issues of rice agriculture in a world where climate change is increasingly a reality. Specific aspects of climate change have been broadly elaborated in comprehensive reviews devoted to rice production and crop production (Wassmann et al 2009a,b). The purpose of this new review...

This document forms part of the “UNEP Manuals on Sustainable Tourism” and the UNWTO sustainable tourism policy guidebooks publication series, aiming to provide guidance to tourism stakeholders to integrate sustainability into their decision making processes and operations. It presents an overview of the current science and policy of climate...