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Namibia wins Momentum for Change Award at COP18 in Doha
Namibia won the Momentum for Change Award, along with eight other developing nations, at the 18th UN Climate Change Conference (COP18) in Doha, Qatar. Namibia was given the award for implementing the project, "Holistic approaches to community adaptation to climate change", which uses six local interlinked climate change coping strategies. The strategies are implemented in several local communities in the five northern regions of Namibia.
Coastal Communities in Bangladesh 'Rising from Barren Lands'
Star Weekend
Special Feature
Volume 11 | Issue 41 | October 19, 2012
Coastal communities are hardest hit when natural disasters such as cyclones and floods visit Bangladesh's shores. An innovative pilot project is in its final six months of working to create alternative livelihoods for landless people and protecting the environment from future natural catastrophes. the Star's SORAYA AUER visited the initiative, which recently won an international award, in the coastal district of Barguna.
Pickersgill Lauds Success of Community-Based Climate Change Project
Jamaica Information Services
3 October 2012
Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill, has lauded the Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) to Climate Change Project in Jamaica for the positive impact it has had on some vulnerable communities.
Rural Community in Jamaica wins Global Eco Award!
Story’s blurb: Situated across the hilly interiors of northeast St. Catherine in Jamaica, lies the rural community of Glengoffe, which comprises fourteen (14) smaller sub-communities consisting of approximately 5,000 people. This community is known for its spirit of self-reliance and resilience, as well as for its Climate Change Adaptation Project, which was the winner of the global UN Volunteers Award for Volunteering Matters for Sustainable Development 2012, in a competition organized as a lead up to the Rio 2012 Sustainable Development Conference.
Sierra Leone: UNDP Ends Workshop On Climate Change Adaptation
AllAfrica
By Patrick J. Kamara, 17 September 2012
United Nations Development Programme UNDP in partnership with the Global Environment Facility GEF and the Government of Sierra Leone has ended the second phase of the project inception workshop on early warning on climate change adaption in the country.
CBA Namibia - CES - "Bountiful harvest can lead to ripple effect" UNV article (Sept. 2010)
Bountiful harvest can lead to ripple effect.
09 September 2010
CBA Videos featured at COP17 Development & Climate Days (2011)
CBA videos featured at COP16 Film Festival
December 2010
CBA Samoa - Fasitootai - 100 Volunteers mangrove planting news article (Dec. 2010)
On 4th December, 2010, in marking the International Volunteer Day (IVD), over 100 local and international volunteers joined hands in cleaning up and planting mangroves in Fasitootai, northwest of the Samoa’s Upolu Island.
Share the Story: Volunteering for the MDGs
CBA contributes to "Share the Story: Volunteering for the MDGs"