Nepal's Agriculture Sector Reshapes its Budgeting Approach to Tackle Climate Change Impacts
The Government of Nepal in partnership with UNDP has developed a new tool to identify and track spending on agricultural activities for promoting farmers’ resilience to climate change impacts and to contribute to reducing carbon emissions...
Climate Change Responsive Investment in Disaster Management
From 30 November - 1 December, UNDP-Bangladesh in partnership with Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (MoDMR) organized a Strategic Planning Workshop titled as the ‘Scoping of Climate Change Responsive Investment in MoDMR’, in Bangladesh. Organized under the UNDP’s regional Governance of Climate Change Finance programme...
“Climate change is the defining issue of our time – and we are at a defining moment…this is the absolute priority.”
Developing countries are not waiting for international finance to enable their climate response. They have already begun to prioritise billions of dollars of their own scarce domestic resources for climate action. It is difficult to articulate how much is being spent on climate through national...
To address the impacts of changing climate, developing countries enhance their capacity to access and manage climate finance. Dhaka, Bangladesh, 3 November 2018 – This week, government representatives from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vanuatu and Fiji gathered in Dhaka for the Third Internationa..
The Ministry of Finance of Bangladesh with support from the Inclusive Budgeting and Financing for Climate Resilience (IBFCR) project of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) held in Dhaka a ceremony to launch Bangladesh’s Citizens Climate Budget Report 2018-19...
Today the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in partnership with UNDP, announced the country’s first provincial strategy for financing climate action. The Climate Change Financing Framework (CCFF), which serves as a road map for integrating climate change in public financial and economic management...
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 05 June 2018 – If the global rise in temperatures is kept below 2°Cby 2100 and Cambodia maintains current levels of investment in climate change adaptation, climate change will reduce Cambodia’s GDP by 9.8 percent in 2050 according to a new report.
By Valerie Cliff and Glenn Hodes - Two years ago the world agreed that action to combat climate change was essential – however, now the problem is how to finance and realize the 170 individual country pledges made as part of the Paris Agreement. What is needed is not necessarily just more funding, but better use of existing finance - it is in Asian capitals like Phnom Penh, Jakarta, Islamabad and Kathmandu, where some of the most innovative work on how to finance climate action is occurring.
Bangkok, 27 April 2018 – Better transparency of climate finance means better accountability. That was one of the key messages delivered by UNDP at the Climate Integrity Talks held in Bangkok from April 25-27.
Peshawar, 24 April 2018 – A Climate Budget Review Guide for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly has been launched in Pakistan. The launch was attended by the Provincial Assembly Secretariat, representatives from the line departments of Finance, Environment, Planning & Development, Bureau of Statistics, the civil society and media.
Kathmandu, 27 March 2018 - The Government of Nepal, Ministry of Finance in partnership with United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has formally initiated a systematic reform process in the government system to access, absorb, deploy and manage climate finance in the country.
Bangkok, Thailand 22 February 2018 - Limited budget transparency, low public participation and lack of formal oversight threaten the effective use of public money in addressing the impacts of climate change, a new report from the United Nations Development Programme revealed on Thursday.
Bangkok, Thailand, 21 February 2018 -Representatives from ten Asia Pacific governments, parliaments, civil society organisations (CSOs) and international institutions gathered this week in Bangkok to reflect and share knowledge and learnings on climate change finance and gender-inclusion as part of the Regional Dialogue on Climate Resilient Growth..
Bangkok, 19 February 2018 - Improved national financial monitoring systems will increase accountability on climate change spending and foster transparency for global efforts to reach the goals outlined through the Paris Agreement and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, according to a joint study issued today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Latin American and Caribbean Climate Finance Group (GFLAC).
The Government of Nepal, Ministry of Finance endorsed the country’s first Climate Change Financing Framework (CCFF) in Dec 2017. The Framework lays out a road map for improvements required to strengthen the public financing system as well as the roles of key ministries for improved coordination in planning and budgeting climate responses. This is viewed by experts as a way to continue to position the country as a global leader in the fight against climate change.
Dhaka, Bangladesh, 3rd November, 2017 – This week, government representatives from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Tonga gathered in Dhaka for a Regional Course on Climate Finance.
Islamabad, October 16, 2017 – As the world prepares for the United Nations climate change summit (COP 23) in Bonn, Germany next month – Pakistan has unveiled a strategy to align its climate action with its financial..
Jakarta, October 13, 2017 - With support from UNDP’s Governance of Climate Change Finance Programme, 11 Bangladesh Government representatives from the Ministries of Finance, Environment and Forests, Water Resources and Agriculture are undertaking a climate finance study-tour in Indonesia.
Together with Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences (CAFS) affiliated with Ministry of Finance (MOF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched a report entitled Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional Review
Nepal is providing innovative leadership in Asia and the Pacific in integrating climate change into budgets - Blog by Suren Poghosyan
