14.03.2023
In an attempt to bring adaptation on an equal footing with mitigation in climate discussions and to close the financing gap between these two pillars of climate action, the Paris Agreement (Cop 21) underlined the need for a Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) to...
17.10.2022
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...
03.08.2022
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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,...
18.05.2022
To foster the scale-up and uptake of successful partnerships between academic, research institutions and communities in the region, APAN organised a webinar on 12 May 2022. The webinar brought together researchers, academics, university students and project managers across the Asia-Pacific region to discuss their initiatives’...
14.01.2019
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...
28.12.2018
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...
14.05.2018
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...
08.05.2018
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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...
07.05.2018
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....
18.04.2018
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...
