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Progress must be made, locally and internationally, to create an environment where climate action and access to energy are congruent goals in least developed countries
By Hamid Abakar Souleymane, LDC representative to the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) Advisory Board and Jukka Uosukainen, Director, Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN)
Under the Poznan Strategic Program on technology transfer, with the financial support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the United Nations Industrial Organization (UNIDO) has been working to promote investment in technology transfer and climate technology development in Cambodia and Thailand as they move towards low-carbon development.
The Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) was presented during the workshop on "Integrating climate change in an environmental impact assessment (EIA)" in Vietnam. The workshop was attended by the participants from the five Lower Mekong Countries (Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam).
Participants from around the world met in Copenhagen to share innovative examples of first-of-a-kind clean technologies. Representatives from finance, government, private sector, and research institutions gathered in the UN City, Copenhagen, on 22-23 May.
The Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN) provides guidance in areas such as economic feasibility, project structure, investment and financing, preparation of the business plan and introductions to investors. PFAN is one of few actors in this space addressing barriers to climate finance at the small and medium enterprises (SME) level in developing countries and emerging economies on demand and supply sides, i.e., shortage of bankable projects on the demand side and ability to assess risk and conservative lending culture on the supply side.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Green is seeking a consultant(s) for a project on clean energy, air, water, and agriculture in the Asia-Pacific Region covering Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam.
The project will aim to catalyze green tech transactions that respond to current needs in the region, in an environmentally sustainable way. To do so, the consultant(s) should meet two key objectives:
With one more year before the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the 2014 Global Hunger Index report offers a multifaceted overview of global hunger that brings new insights to the global debate on where to focus efforts in the fight against hunger and malnutrition. The state of hunger in developing countries as a group has improved since 1990, falling by 39 percent, according to the 2014 GHI.
The 193 individual country profiles capture the status and progress of all UN Member States, and the 80+ indicators include a wealth of information on child, adolescent and adult anthropometry and nutritional status, in addition to intervention coverage, food supply, economics, and demography. This tool is particularly useful for nutrition champions at the country-level, as it presents a wide range of evidence needed to assess country progress in improving nutrition and nutrition-related outcomes.
Because of its low adaptive capacity, Cambodia is highly vulnerable to climate change events, particularly as the social protection system in Cambodia is still under development. This technical note discusses "adaptive social protection" - the concept that requires that social protection should consider both short- and long-term shocks and stresses associated with climate change. It starts by looking at where the country stands at the moment in terms of existing patterns of poverty and vulnerability, burden of disease, human socio-economic security etc.
Cambodia is a key player in the global market for exported rice and the rice-producing sector has been a pillar of national development plans to foster food security and accelerate economic development. The uptake of clean technologies needed to achieve the desired outcomes, however, has been hampered by a lack of finance and awareness of the benefits among producers.