Environment and natural resources
2018 Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food, and Energy
The Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy is the largest annual knowledge-sharing event in the Greater Mekong. It presents research-based evidence to non-governmental organisations, policy-makers, the private sector, and development agencies. It does this through carefully designed and facilitated dialogues. The 2018 Greater Mekong ...
Consultancy Services: Conducting Final Evaluation of Inclusion Project
Oxfam’s Mekong Regional Water Governance Program (MRWGP) is looking for a Consultancy team to conduct the Final Evaluation of the Inclusion Project. Interested teams should send tenders through our recruitment website at here by September 25st 2018 at 5pm Cambodia time. ...
The Young Champions of the Earth prize
Seven environmental trailblazers between the ages of 18 and 30 will be taking home the coveted Young Champions of the Earth Prize, the UN’s highest environmental honor, for their ambitious project ideas to restore and protect the environment. The winning young entrepreneurs – hailing from all ...
Bangkok Climate Change Conference - September 2018
The resumed forty-eighth sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 48-2) and Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 48-2) as well as the sixth part of the first session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA 1-6) will ...
MRC Regional Stakeholder Forum #5
The rapid development in the Mekong River region has placed a strong pressure on the Mekong Basin’s water and related resources. In line with the 1995 Mekong Agreement, the Member Countries (MCs) have come together to work for sustainable development of the Mekong River Basin and its resources in ...
Seeing REDD: a database of forest carbon emissions reduction projects
A searchable database of initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) is now available through the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). The free online ID-RECCO tool aims to help researchers, governments, and potential project leaders better understand REDD+ projects by ...
New Report: WWF Forest Pulse Report 2018
“Pulse of the Forest” showcases both the threats and the potential for the forests of the Greater Mekong region, which consists of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. The region is one of 11 global deforestation fronts – areas that in the coming decades ...
Free Online Training Course for Water Integrity: Principles and Concepts
Free Online Training Course for Water Integrity: Principles and Concepts is meant to offer a “grain” of the needed knowledge required by water practitioners, public officials, NGO personnel, and anybody else who want to contribute to increase the efficiency and integrity of water management. The course ...
Joint Statement To Strengthen Water Data Management and Information Sharing in The Lower Mekong
The Ministers/Representatives of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam (hereafter referred to as the “Lower Mekong Countries”); the European Union, the Governments of Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, and the United States; and the World Bank (hereafter referred to as the ...
Save the Mekong Statement on the Collapse of the Xe Pian - Xe Nam Noy Hydropower Project
Save the Mekong, a coalition of non-government organizations, community-based groups and concerned citizens within the Mekong region, wish to express our shock and concern at the recent collapse of the Xe Pian – Xe Nam Noy hydropower project in Laos, and our deep condolences to ...
