With significant economic growth over recent decades, Viet Nam is widely considered a development success story. Once one of the poorest nations in the world, the country of almost 100 million citizens is now lower middle-income with aspirations of becoming industrialized by the year 2020....
Keyword: SDGs
The Role of Innovative Financial Instruments in Accelerating Deployment of Renewable Energy and Improving Energy Efficiency in Asia and the Pacific
You are cordially invited to the side event cohosted by Regional Resource Center for Asia and the Pacific at Asian Institute of Technology, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and other partner organizations during the forthcoming Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD). Venue: UNCC,...
02.03.2015
South Asian nations must collaborate to ensure climate change goals converge with Sustainable development goals: CANSA
Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA) a coalition of 125 civil society organisations called upon the heads of governments of developing countries to collaborate and coordinate their efforts on climate change adaptation plans and ensure that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) reflect the urgency to...
Climate Change and Sustainable Development Goals: Inter-linkages & Opportunities in South Asia
2015 is the year in which both UNFCCC and Post-2015 Sustainable Development processes will witness landmark global negotiations and agreements. In order to understand commonalities of the UNFCCC and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) processes and make them mutually supportive, the Asia-Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) organised...
Climate change and the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals
CDKN will be hosting a workshop to explore the linkages between climate change and the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The event will bring together experts and practitioners in climate change and sustainable development from across the South East Asia region. The workshop will complement...
How climate finance can support sustainable development
Climate finance — international and national finance for mitigating and adapting to climate change — is stimulating innovative national planning that links climate resilience with more sustainable and equitable economic growth. This paper explores some of those initiatives, and how climate finance could effectively contribute...