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UNEP's Guidebook on National legislation for Adaptation to Climate Change is based on the outcome of a UNEP pilot project that was carried out in three South East Asian countries in 2009-2010 - Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam - is intended to serve as a tool to help decision-makers and legal drafters to incorporate measures for adapting to the adverse impacts of climate change into their national sustainable development policies, plans and programmes by creating the necessary legal, regulatory and institutional framework for such action.

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Zhangely is a typical village in the South Kazakhstan Oblast, the most densely populated in the country. Climate is extremely continental and dry, with long winters and hot summers. During the Soviet era, the village specialized in cotton production, though now the village is reliant on cattle production on soils degraded from years of monocrop agricultural production. Long-term climate change projections for Kazakhstan and Central Asia include increasing temperatures, especially in winter, as well as increasing levels of evapotranspiration in summer......

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USAID is proud to announce the release of its new Climate Change and Development Strategy for 2012-2016. The Strategy provides a strategic framework for USAID to address the challenges and opportunities associated with climate change and outlines the Agency’s goals, strategic objectives, and guiding principles for climate change programming. The Strategy also lays out a road map for implementation, recognizing the need to develop more detailed plans for research, monitoring, training, learning, and outreach......

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The aim of the project is to make Cambodia’s agricultural sector less vulnerable to changes in the availability of water resources resulting from climate change. It will also contribute to the broader goal of enhancing adaptive capacity to prevent food insecurity in Cambodia induced by climate change. The project will work to increase awareness of climate change, demonstrate climate resilient practices in agriculture and water resource management and integrate responses into provincial and commune development plans......

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www.undp.adaptationlearning.net

The UNDP-Adaptation Learning Mechanism (ALM) is UNDP's knowledge-sharing platform on country led programmes and projects financed by the Least Developed Country Fund (LDCF), Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF), Adaptation Fund (AF), bi-lateral donors and through decentralized cooperation supported by UNDP’s Down to Earth: Territorial Approach to Climate Change (TACC) project.

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