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Opinion / Policy & Finance

How to get Indonesia’s leaders to accept some inconvenient truths

...floods because of the reduced rainfall absorption in drained peat lands — the impacts of which will be felt far downstream in major towns such as Sintang and the capital Pontianak. Another one is the ...

28 May 2014

How to get Indonesia’s leaders to accept some inconvenient truths

News / Green Buildings

Samoa's architects look to the past to boost climate resilience

...flooding, sea surges and tsunamis. “ The design of the fale connects the roof directly to the posts that are concreted into the ground, creating less points of weakness. It is a proven construction t...

6 Oct 2014

Samoa's architects look to the past to boost climate resilience

News / Energy

A$17b investment set to leave Australian windfarm industry

...flood of insolvency filings by solar firms and a shrunken market. Italy's plans to cut subsidies for solar power firms have prompted an investor exodus. Retroactive solar subsidy cuts have also happen...

9 Feb 2015

A$17b investment set to leave Australian windfarm industry

News / Carbon & Climate

Singapore steps up efforts to weather future climate change

...flooding could affect the city state’s physical infrastructure. The initial findings are expected to be released by 2016, and will feed into Singapore’s ‘Resilience Framework’, a blueprint developed b...

9 Jul 2014

Singapore steps up efforts to weather future climate change

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Is it time to abandon two degrees?

...floods, and famine on a scale never before seen. This is undermining sustainable development and poverty alleviation around the world. What’s worse, some low-lying island states are even developing re...

21 Oct 2014

Is it time to abandon two degrees?

News / Corporate Responsibility

New Mekong cruise puts spotlight on eco-tourism

...flooded forests, among other adventures. “ We will be doing everything we can to ensure that Aqua Mekong is as environmentally friendly as possible Francesco Galli Zugaro, founder and CEO, Aqua Exped...

1 Oct 2014

New Mekong cruise puts spotlight on eco-tourism

News / Water

Reefs merit protection money

...flooding could cost up to a trillion dollars a year. But the natural reefs that have offered shelter for so many people – for example, an estimated 41 million in Indonesia, 36 million in India, and 23...

20 May 2014

Reefs merit protection money

News / Carbon & Climate

Sarawak chief calls state's logging industry 'corrupt'

...flood rainforests, villages, and traditional hunting grounds.

24 Nov 2014

Sarawak chief calls state's logging industry 'corrupt'

News / Energy

Powering Asia's clean energy transformation

...floods, and droughts growing more intense and frequent. These trends put governments in an unenviable trilemma – they must provide enough energy for all, make sure it is affordable, but curb the rise...

16 Sep 2015

Powering Asia's clean energy transformation

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Extending Indonesia’s forest moratorium is a win for business

...flood and erosion control. Protecting these services will extend the productivity of agricultural lands and ensure that smallholder producers have a long-term source of income. Securing long-term acce...

14 May 2015

Extending Indonesia’s forest moratorium is a win for business

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate worries insurers and military

...flooding from storm surge, and more drought.” A former US Navy officer, retired Vice-Admiral Lee Gunn, is reported by NBC News as saying that the 2011 Arab Spring uprising could in part be traced to a...

16 May 2014

Climate worries insurers and military

News / Carbon & Climate

Tibet's glaciers at their warmest in 2,000 years: report

...floods and landslides there. However, rising temperatures had also improved the local ecosystem, it said. The scientists urged the government to work to reduce human impact on the region's fragile env...

15 Aug 2014

Tibet's glaciers at their warmest in 2,000 years: report

News / Food & Agriculture

Davao eyes oil palm as alternative export crop

...flooding and Panama disease, as oil palm is more resilient to floods and climate change. Industry leaders in the region are presently organizing farmers’ groups so they can transform their unused land...

10 Apr 2014

Davao eyes oil palm as alternative export crop

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Financing the fight against climate change

...flooding are threatening livelihoods and food supplies. As the international community gears up for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December, identifying and streamlining sour...

9 Feb 2015

Financing the fight against climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

White House to introduce climate data website

...flooded in the coming years. But in practice, until climate science and mapping applications can live up to the site’s ambitions, it will remain very much in its testing phase. At the beginning, the w...

19 Mar 2014

White House to introduce climate data website

Press Releases / UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Bangkok

Key priorities identified to achieve sustainable development in South Asia

...floods, droughts and cholera. “The environmental challenges in South Asia – including poor air and water quality, inadequate solid waste disposal and degraded natural resources - are a da...

25 Jun 2014

Key priorities identified to achieve sustainable development in South Asia

News / Water

Dams responsible for South Asia’s sinking deltas

...floods. The mouth of the Ganga-Brahmaputra mega-delta in Bangladesh, the largest in the world, is dotted with 139 small islands called polders. An embankment protects each polder from daily tides. Eve...

7 May 2014

Dams responsible for South Asia’s sinking deltas

News / Cities

Cities address climate change

...floods, rising sea levels and salinity intrusion as well as inland cities that will likely see flash floods, landslides and underground water reduction. Under the first phase, from now to 2015, the Mi...

7 Jan 2014

Cities address climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Atlases reveal climate and weather impacts

...floods, tropical cyclones and related health epidemics. Preparations start in Geneva, Switzerland, on 14 July for the third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, to be held in Japan in March 20...

14 Jul 2014

Atlases reveal climate and weather impacts

News / Energy

Nepal wins hearts and minds with biogas boom

...floods – has been a big problem. Trees saved The Biogas Sector Programme, a Kathmandu-based organisation that promotes the use of biogas, says every biogas plant can save 1.25 trees each year, That me...

3 Jul 2014

Nepal wins hearts and minds with biogas boom