A press release on the Reuters caught my attention a few days ago. The World Bank, the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed an agreement to cooperate on reducing the risk of disasters in the region. In view of the lack of political will to fund disaster risk reduction, pooling [...]
The World Food Programme (WFP) launched this week a food voucher programme in Burkina Faso. This is an intelligent step from the WFP, as it will help strengthen the local food markets rather than creating a dependency on foreign food to meet local demand. While this is only a first step on what should become [...]
The 4th meeting of the AWGLCA will be hosting a workshop on “Risk management and risk reduction strategies, including risk sharing and transfer mechanisms such as insurance.” The item was listed in the Bali Action Plan, and this will be first meeting that considers specific adaptation issues.
In preparation to the discussion, it is important to [...]
Mozambique has taken firm steps to develop, increase, and enhance national collaboration for disaster risk reduction (DRR), with success particularly in disaster response for the protection of human lives. Over the past decade, the Government of Mozambique has also tried to work towards reducing vulnerability and disaster risk in the long term through research, consultation, [...]
A brief note to link to a summary of the side event I presented during the climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany on June 5th, 2008. The presentation highlighted lessons from the field demonstrating how community-based adaptation can contribute to the Bali Action Plan.
SustainUS organized the side event and offered the opportunity to present. You can [...]
A reflection from Poznan COP 14
Adaptation to climate change has slowly improved its status under the UNFCCC over the past year, especially since the Bali Action Plan placed adaptation at the same level as mitigation. However, while the understanding of how to go about developing adaptation strategies and its elements has advanced, the matters related [...]