Thailand’s Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, working with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, plan shift from conventional to low-emission rice farming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 26 per cent over the 5-year span of a project to be funded by the multi-donor Nationally Appropriate...
Five programmes alone have resulted in over USD 100 million for Samoa to strengthen resilience to climate change. This was presented at the very first Samoa National Climate Finance Forum held today in Apia. Advanced in its’ coordination of Climate and Disaster Risk financing Samoa established a Climate Resilience Steering...
The new European Climate Initiative (EUKI) of the Federal Environment Ministry will support intra-European cooperation on climate action. Interested non-profit organisations are invited to submit project proposals by mid-May this year to the competition for project ideas, which is looking for representatives or organisations from two or more EU...
The Department of Environmental Protection and Conservation Office celebrated two milestones yesterday at the Climate Change compound yesterday. The DEPC officially launched its National Environment Policy and Implementation Plan 2016-2030 and the opening of the new DEPC office. The Acting Director of DEPC, Mr Reedly Tari said that it was a...
Story Highlights The Republic of the Marshall Islands became the first country to ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase down the production and use of hydrofluorocarbons. The Kigali Amendment was agreed at MOP 28, which took place in October 2016, in Kigali, Rwanda. 28 February...
PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia Women farmers proudly show their harvest from the pilot testing of pure seeds of DMSK in Preah Vihear, Cambodia. /Photo by IBIS-RICE Supporting farmers in adapting to climate change and at the same time contribute to their livelihoods and protect the environment, was the goal of a small...
BANGKOK, Thailand – Delegates from Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agree, agriculture deserves special attention in the processes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In a meeting in Bangkok, they underlined their continued support for an ASEAN common position on...
More than 90 representatives from 11 Asian countries participated in an executive consultation forum and capacity building seminar to learn and share their experiences on mechanisms to deal with financial risks resulting from climate change. It was organized by the “Strategic Alliance on Climate Risk Transfer Solutions” (Strategic Alliance),...
Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday called for a new generation of partnerships with the business community to limit the impact of climate change and to reduce poverty. In an address this morning to a special session on cooperation for peace, the Secretary-General said he was...
The Climate Change Adaptation Working Group of SNRD-Asia organised a webinar and discussion meeting on “Ecosystem and Community-based Adaptation and the Landscape Approach”. Dieter Nill from the GIZ headquarter introduced the topic: Do we really have different approaches or are we looking on the same reality but with different glasses? The article...
