Climate Change Adaptation in Southeast Asia

 VietNamNet Bridge – Uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources
has weakened or completely destroyed many of the Cuu Long Delta's ecosystems, experts said at an annual forum last Friday.

A new two-year climate change initiative, led by the International Research Institute for Climate and Society aims to help farmers in Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Bangladesh reduce their vulnerability to climate risks.

Indonesia’s villagers are benefiting from funds provided by an international forest-preserving scheme by cultivating mushrooms instead of relying on unsustainable slash-and-burn land clearing techniques, and re-learning the near-lost art of rattan...

A new review of strategies to prepare for the impacts of climate change shows that expanding forests worldwide by planting more trees is unambiguously a good idea.

In depth coverage of lifestyle, music, food, fashion, arts and culture from Thailand and Asean coupled with reviews, features and directories of Thailand restaurants, bars, cuisine and wine.

The government of Timor-Leste has developed a National Aquaculture Development Strategy, with the help of WorldFish, to reduce high levels of poverty and chronic malnutrition.

The smoke billows from the slender chimney stacks of the power plant on North Jakarta’s shore, reaching ever higher before dissipating in the atmosphere. Untold amounts of pollutants flood the air, and the biggest culprit for global warming — carbon dioxide — is released.

Images from the inauguration of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) Southeast Asia regional office in Vietnam.

MARIO Bantilan, an informal settler at the bank of the Davao River along Jade Valley Subdivision, Barangay Tigatto was almost in tears as he narrated how he and his family almost died when the river o...

Over 100 climate change adaptation (CCA) experts, practitioners and government officials from nearly 30 Asia-Pacific countries shared insights to accessing international financing for CCA at a recent USAID funded ADAPT Asia-Pacific session.

Government representatives from countries in Africa and Asia have formed a partnership to engender efforts to factor climate change into their national development programmes.

Braced against the cool, drizzly weather, a handful of hardy individuals joined the Eastern Shore Land Trust to explore small-scale farming and community-supported agriculture through tours of two local farms: Copper Cricket Farm of Machipongo and...

It sounds counter-intuitive. Indonesia’s vast mangrove forests, CIFOR has recently discovered, are a valuable carbon sink. They shelter unique species, protect coastlines from stormy seas – and the...

New research suggests that cutting down trees in the rainforest could limit the amount of electricity generated by hydropower.

Today’s agriculture and food production face challenging issues like the rising demand for biofuels and alternative and green energy sources, increasing globalization, global climate change risks, and the rise of hypermarkets. These 21st century realities bring about a dynamic set of challenges that require unique skills from agricultural leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Launch of the Southeast Asia office of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security http://ccafs.cgiar.org 7 May 2013, Hanoi, Vi

In the face of “clear and present danger,” the United Nations climate change body is warning that a stepped-up coordinated response is needed to fend off the impacts of climate change after the world’s carbon-dioxide concentrations surpassed their...

/PRNewswire/ --  Sindicatum Sustainable Resources ' Group CEO Assaad W. Razzouk participated in a Carbon Market Reform private event in Washington, D.C.

The World d Bank 2010 annual report World Development Report 2010 was on the world present urgent challenge how to address the issue of Climate Change and Development. It is an important contribution to the present ongoing debate on the issue bit at the national levels and international arenas all over the world.

A new UN body to advise nations on climate tech may break the deadlock in the long-running debate on transferring technology finds Joanna Carpenter.Rich nations have the technological know-how needed for poor nations to develop — but how...