Organised by the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network, this webinar is the fourth of a series of webinars for regional climate change adaptation practitioners and policymakers on the important outcomes and themes emerging out of COP 26. The first three webinars focused on Locally-Led Adaptation, Loss...
Speakers during the APAN Webinar, Connecting the dots: climate change and biodiversity interlinkages in Asia-Pacific, from science to policy and practice, 22 September 2022, Zoom. Photo: UNEP-APAN Through the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) webinar, “Connecting the dots: climate change and biodiversity interlinkages...
Speakers during APAN Webinar on Understanding loss and damage in the Asia and Pacific: science, policy, and mechanisms to avert, minimize, and address impacts held last 21 July 2022 via Zoom. The Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) tackled loss and damage through the webinar,...
USAID Mekong ARCC worked with implementing partners to identify the environmental, economic, and social effects of climate change in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB), and to assist highly exposed and vulnerable rural populations in ecologically sensitive areas to increase their ability to adapt to climate...
Civil society organizations (CSOs) in Cambodia are receiving support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to help communities tackle climate change impacts and natural disasters, through a civil society support scheme officially launched today. The scheme, funded by the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience under...
After two-year effort to strengthen community adaptation capacity to the negative impacts of climate change, USAID Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (USAID Mekong ARCC) project engaged World Resources Institute Vulnerability and Adaptation Expert, Moushumi Chaudhury, to capture lessons learned from implementing the adaptation...
A variety of stakeholders in developing countries have greatly contributed to mainstreaming adaptation into national development strategies/ plans in different ways (national adaptation planning (NAP) process) as well as implementing adaptation actions, which are compatible to sustainable development. Bilateral and multilateral donors have provided support...
Summary The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s 4th Assessment Report notes that the Asia-Pacific region is expected to see significant environmental changes over the coming decades, which will almost certainly pose major challenges to not only the maintenance and restoration of current socio-political and...
The project entitled Formulation of the National Adaptation Programme of Action to Climate Change (NAPA) aims to develop a realistically achievable country-driven programme of action and priority activities addressing the needs of Cambodia for adapting to the adverse effects of climate change (UNDP, 2003). Specifically, the project’s goals...
The changing environment is expected to intensify the challenges that people in developing countries are facing, particularly among the groups whose livelihoods depend on natural resources. The adaptive capacity of livelihoods largely defines the extent to which people can cope with future environmental changes, whether caused by climate...