Southeast Asia

  Climate change is a very real problem being faced globally. It is a challenge to address climate  change effectively, but parallely this is an opportunity in disguise of a call of the hour. Adaptation capacity that have been emb...

Discussion covered a brief refresher on climate change in the region, climate change adaptation, mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development planning, the different technologies on adaptation, role of science and prio...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is now calling for the submission of joint concept notes for the establishment of research consortia under the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIA...

The Thomson Reuters Foundation, which publishes AlertNet Climate and runs TrustLaw Connect, is a platform that links NGOs and social enterprises with top lawyers who offer their services free of cost. The lawyers have a keen inter...

The ADAPT Asia-Pacific project has established a financing facility that provides a combination of technical assistance, capacity building and networking related to accessing climate adaptation funds. The project aims to build the...

The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) launched a new brochure that is specific to work underway in the Asia region. The brochure describes CDKN’s mission, priority themes, and where and how it works. It also explain...

This issue features the relationship between adaptation and REDD+, drawing attention to how forests can increase the resilience of communities to impending climate change impacts and how REDD+ can help or hinder this process. The...

The Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EbA) Programme is run by a partnership of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature...

This study assesses ADB’s response to disasters from two broad categories of disaster-related operations—disaster prevention and disaster recovery. The study reports that if only the projects focused predominantly on disaster prev...

This report offers an approach and ideas for reflection, inviting readers to consider ways to ensure that actions required to strengthen resilience are actually taken. The report helps equip investors in the public sphere, namely...