Climate change

Until April 30th, students and young people starting their careers or going through a career transition can apply for the Youth Climate Leaders (YCL) program. The program aims to develop a unique experience for participants: one trip around the world to learn more about climate change in theory, ...

The World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS), organized by the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in India, will be held at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi from 15/02/2018 to 17/02/2018.  The summit aims to accelerate action towards sustainable development and especially climate change. At WSDS, UNCCD will organize ...

Disasters have multiple impacts e.g., losses of lives, devastating impacts on infrastructure, damage to ecosystems and undermining development. On top of this, climate change is expected to aggravate existing disaster risks in many regions of the world. There is a need for increased awareness amongst ...

MRCS is arranging a Regional Training Workshop on Hydropower Environmental Impact Mitigation for the Lower Mekong Basin on January 23-24, 2018 at the Office of the Mekong River Commission Secretariat in Vientiane, Lao PDR.For more details, please visit here ...

The Lower Mekong Public Policy Initiative (LMPPI) is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and jointly managed by Fulbright University Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, and the Vietnam Program of Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation in the ...

Award: ODV best open data set 2017Mekong Environment Forum – MEF 2017Building Community Capacity in Response to Mekong Delta Environmental ChangesCan Tho University, 28 December 2017OverviewAs part of the MEF and Can Tho University upcoming workshop on Building Community Capacity, the East-West Management Institute Open ...

The side event is organised in partnership with the International Development Research Centre, McGill University, University of Notre Dam du Lac, Asian Institute of Technology, and the Africa Group of Negotiators Expert Support. Country delegates and experts will be sharing experiences on approaches to measuring ...

The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) is conducting a training on course on ‘Mainstreaming free, prior and informed consent in forest governance and climate change’, to be held on September 18-23 in Bangkok, Thailand. Read the details of the event below, and apply at ...

International Rivers (IR) has released the results of an independent study it commissioned into the Environmental Impact Assessment for the Pak Beng hydropower dam, finding that “the project studies are insufficient to meaningfully evaluate the dam’s environmental and social impacts – particularly the transboundary and cumulative impacts – ...

Open-access journal Water is calling for papers and contributions for an upcoming special issue covering the Water-Energy-Food nexus in the Greater Mekong Subregion. See below for the call in full, or over at their site.—Dear Colleagues,The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is a prime exemplar of the ...