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SWITCH-Asia II launched its third Call for Proposals with a total budget of EUR 45.7 million, of which EUR 32.7 is allocated for 19 countries in South and Southeast Asia and EUR 13 million will be available for 5 countries in Central Asia, a new...

We are seeking in particular qualified, preferably female, applicants from developing countries with expertise in one or more of the following areas: climate change; lifecycle analysis; environmental and development economics; land and biodiversity; metals and minerals; marine resources; and environmental displacement and migration.   Applicants...

We are now accepting entries for the 2018 Climate & Clean Air Awards! We would like to call on you, our network of partners and actors, to help us recognise exceptional actions taken by individuals or groups to reduce short-lived climate pollutants. We are accepting...

The Cook Islands has received $3 million to help build the resilience of its residents and protect their livelihoods from disasters and climate change. The money, a grant from the Adaptation Fund, will help the Pacific island nation strengthen its disaster risk governance, establish and...

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....

In 2009 the first democratically elected President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, held an underwater cabinet meeting. The stunt was crafted to draw international attention to the plight of many low-lying island nations as climate change causes sea levels to rise, threatening their continued existence. Nasheed...

Despite the union government in New Delhi endorsing Jammu & Kashmir government’s State Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC) for rupees 6,739 croresin 2014, no work has so far been carried out by utilising funds available to SAPCC through the union Ministry of Environment, Forests...

The Australian government’s recent Foreign Policy White Paper has been criticized for its underwhelming climate change section. Penny Wong, the current opposition leader in the Australian Senate, said that its acknowledgement of the need to support a more resilient Pacific region “rings hollow in light of the...

The Vietnamese Mekong Delta is one of Earth’s most agriculturally productive regions and is of global importance for its exports of rice, shrimp, and fruit. The 18m inhabitants of this low-lying river delta are also some of the world’s most vulnerable to climate change. Over...

The Philippines and the International Finance Corp have teamed up to create the country's first ever "green building code" to help private firms reduce greenhouse gas emissions and preserve the environment. Once in place, the code will help reduce electricity consumption by 3.9 million kilowatt-hours,...