The two day Training on National Adaptation Plans now mandated for countries was organised by Climate Action Network South Asia in very timely manner. While the LDC in the region is done with NAPAs, there is confusion on value addition of NAPs and thus the...

This report documents the results of a Workshop on ‘Pacific Climate Change and Finance’ that was held in Apia, Samoa on 28 and 29 October 2012. The workshop was hosted by the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) with co-financing from SPC through their GCCA project....

The 2-day training on Climate Change Adaptation Planning held on 20-21 September 2012 in Royale Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia was attended by 22 participants from nine Southeast Asia countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. Majority are representing the climate change...

Climate change is unambiguous in the northeast Asian nations of Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan. However, geography, economics, and cultural issues create significant differences when it comes to the ultimate effects of climate change in each country, and similarly constrain the resources available to tackle...

Previous needs assessments and gap analysis study in adaptation to climate change within APAN identify the priority sectors in Central Asia where urgent adaptation actions are necessary, which are water, agriculture and natural disasters. At the same time it was found that currently it is...

Limited understanding of investments in land use mitigation and adaptation inhibits the design of efficient and effective public interventions. In many cases, we do not know how much finance is being channeled to the land-use sector, how it is being delivered, what is being paid...

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 132, June 2015: This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the theme of the 'Risk of Heat Waves and Climate Change in India'. This issue tries to highlight the phenomena of heat waves from the perspectives of various stakeholders ranging from the local...

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 124 – January 2015 This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the theme of Successful Community Based Adaptation in India. It tries to highlight how low-cost, democratic and need based adaptation strategies have been successful in India. The primacy of local level adaptation...

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 123 – January 2015   This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the important theme of Climate Compatible Development in India. As an emerging humanitarian ideal, climate compatible development can be described as the interface between development, disaster risk reduction and climate change...

The 8th Exchange on “Financing Urban Adaptation and Resilience” was raised by Dr. Peter King on 16 June 2015 to engage the APAN climate change adaptation community in Asia and the Pacific. The Exchange period lasted approximately 2 weeks. The e-discussion report is available for...