News and Events
From 4 – 6 December 2016, the AIZ is organizing a Training Seminar on “Capacity Development for Environmental Fiscal Reform (EFR)”. The seminar is addressing policy makers, administration officials and other relevant stakeholders who are responsible for preparing or implementing environmental fiscal reforms – i.e. the introduction or reform...
Agriculture has featured prominently in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change technical discussions but is largely absent from the formal negotiation processes. The sector is one of the most vulnerable in Southeast Asia, and a crucial backbone for smallholder food security and livelihood. Some of the region’s...
“With the ASEAN Common Position, the ASEAN Ministers of Agriculture and Forestry have sent a clear message that agriculture, comprising crops, livestock, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture, is a top priority for action to address the impacts and drivers of climate change in ASEAN. I strongly believe the outcomes of...
Interview with Chief of Crop Pest Management Division Ms. Wilima Cuaterno talks to ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems about the agriculture sector in the Philippines, challenges, and necessary supports. Agriculture sector in the Philippines “Agriculture is the backbone of the Philippine economy. Rice is the most important crop since it is the major...
20 October 2016, Bacolod City The “Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation Area” (NOCWCA) of the Philippines has been declared as the 7th Ramsar site. Ramsar Convention delegates, national executives of DENR, and provincial government officials led the inauguration of NOCWCA. Mr. Berthold Schirm of GIZ-PAME Project Director and Dr. Berthold Siebert of ACB-GIZ-Institutional Strengthening...
Sustainable forest management (SFM) is one of the priorities on the path to responding to the adverse impacts of climate change. Deforestation and forest degradation are responsible for one sixth (1/6) of carbon dioxide emissions globally, and forests play a key role in mitigating this environmental threat, absorbing one...
Since the submission of the ER-PIN[1] in May 2014 to the Carbon Fund, the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) has been supporting the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) in drafting the Emission Reduction Program Document (ERPD) for in the North Central Agro-Ecological Region (Fig. 1) of...
The new Lao government, which has been in office since the beginning of 2016, is increasingly opposed to illegal logging and timber exports. An analysis of Chinese and Vietnamese customs data shows that the timber exports to both countries increased by 70% between 2012 and 2014 and reached around 1,600,000...
The ASEAN Climate Resilience Network (ASEAN-CRN) participated in the 5th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum with the theme “Adapting and Living under 2C: Bridging Gaps in Policy and Practice”, which was held at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH) on October 17-19, 2016 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The forum,...
Although the event is still a year down the road the Call for Abstracts has already been opened and will close on 30th November. The Congress provides a platform for the exchange of scientific knowledge across all scientific disciplines relevant in forest research. Two sessions of the event should be...
