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  • WHO Executive Board, 144: Health, environment and climate change: draft WHO global strategy on health, environment and climate change

    This draft strategy aims to provide a vision and way forward on how the world and its health community need to respond to environmental health risks and challenges until 2030, a...

  • WHO Executive Board 142: Health, environment and climate change Report by the Director-General

    This is a report by the Director-General on actions taken on the interlinkages between human health and biodiversity, for consideration by the Seventy-first World Health Assembl...

  • Preventing disease through healthy environments: a global assessment of the burden of disease from environmental risks

    this report presents a wide-ranging assessment and detailed ndings to show by how much and in what ways improving the environment can promote health and well-being. The realiza...

  • Cambodia Climate and Health Country Profile 2015

    The profiles gives a snapshot about the current and future impacts of climate change on human health in Cambodia. It discusses Cambodia's current status regarding climate change...

  • Development and Climate Change in the Mekong Region

    The countries of the Mekong Region have mostly continued in their path of rapid economic growth and increasing regional economic integration. However, poverty and social inequal...

  • Climate-resilient water safety plans: managing health risks associated with climate variability and change

    Long-term planning for an adequate and safe supply of drinking-water should be set in the context of growing external uncertainties arising from changes in the climate and envir...

  • Dengue increase likely during rainy season: WHO warns

    Several Asian countries are experiencing unusually high numbers of dengue cases for this time of year. With the rainy season approaching, the World Health Organization (WHO) is ...

  • WHO scales up response to worldwide surge in dengue

    An article on the recent increase in dengue fever cases by WHO. It gives an overview on the current situation and how WHO is responding to it.

  • Global expansion and redistribution of Aedes- borne virus transmission risk with climate change

    The established scientific consensus indicates that climate change will severely exacerbate the risk and burden of Aedes-transmitted viruses, including dengue, chikungunya, Zika...

  • 2019 Global Hunger Index: The Challenge of Hunger and Climate Change

    The 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that while the world has made gradual progress in reducing hunger on a global scale since 2000, this progress has been uneven. Hunger pe...

  • Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP) for Thailand (Revised)

    The need for a multi-sectoral approach to REDD+ is recognized by Thailand’s Government. The government has put in place an institutional arrangement/management structure that re...

  • Myanmar Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (MCCSAP) 2016–2030

    The Myanmar Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (MCCSAP) presents a roadmap to guide Myanmar’s strategic responses and actions to climate-related risks and opportunities ove...

  • Lao PDR: Climate and Health Country Profile 2015

    The profiles provide a snapshot of information about the current and future impacts of climate change on human health, current policy responses in Lao PDR. They also highlight t...

  • Laos - Country partnership framework for the period FY2017-FY2021

    This document presents the World Bank Group (WBG) Country Partnership Framework (CPF) with the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) for FY 2017-2021. The WBG CPF aims at su...

  • REDD+ and Women's Rights in Myanmar (MM)

    This document summarizes how the REDD+ international safeguards and the Myanmar national social and environmental safeguards principles relate to women's rights.

  • Recommendations from Thailand’s Civil Society Organizations for the Revision of the REDD+ Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP) for Thailand

    The recommendations given in this document were developed during the consultation workshop entitled. “Promotion of Equity in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Deg...

  • Striking a Balance: Managing El Nio and La Nia in Lao PDRs Agriculture

    This reports purpose is to help Lao policy makers and stakeholders prepare for future El NioSouthern Oscillation (ENSO) events. It does this by providing information on ENSOs po...

  • Record of natural disasters 2017: Occuring 16 historical storms, floods of unnatuaral law

    There was not any year that has had 16 storms, Hoa Binh lake had to discharge 8 bottom gates, there was historical floods in Ninh Binh, Thanh Hoa ....

  • An Assessment in Monitoring Options and Capacity Building Needs in Houaphanh Province

    This report discusses options for identifying and developing forest monitoring methodologies that can estimate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from forest degradation. This is...

  • Krabi at the Crossroads: Dirty Coal VS. Clean Renewable Energy

    Thailand is at the crossroads. With the political changes and turmoil affecting the country, we are now asking what energy future Thailand’s new governments will promote? Will t...

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