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Stakeholders of IGES-led workshop position climate change adaptation as an “urgent, cross-cutting issue”
Manila, Philippines: The third installation of the Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptation Planning in the Asia-Pacific Region workshop series has been successfully held in Discovery Suites, Ortigas, Pasig City on January 31- February 1, 2018. Organized by the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) with support from Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOEJ) […]
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Hanoi enjoyed just 38 days of clean air in 2017 -report
By: Thomson Reuters KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi, enjoyed little more than one month of clean air last year as pollution levels rose to match China’s smog-prone capital, Beijing, preliminary findings of a new report showed. Annual average air pollution in Hanoi in 2017 was also four times higher […]
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Shivering in the tropics: Southeast Asia faces “cooling crisis”
By Michael Taylor of Thomson Reuters KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Southeast Asia faces a “cooling crisis” as more and more people crank up inefficient air-conditioning to cope with rising temperatures and worsening air pollution, researchers said. More than 420 managers and experts from government agencies and multinational companies in Indonesia, Malaysia, […]
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First Urban LEDS II scoping mission in Lao PDR completed
Mr. Syamphone Sengchandala (rightmost), Deputy Director General of the Department of Climate Change, MONRE – Lao PDR receives ICLEI Southeast Asia and UN Habitat during the initial scoping visit for Urban LEDS II. City representatives from Savannakhet and Pakse in Lao PDR as well as high level official from the Ministry of Environment and Natural […]
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