<p>This report presents a comprehensive assessment of the impacts of climate change on rice production and the broader implications for water management in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB), a region of immense ecological, ...

Since its establishment in 2005, the ESCAP Trust Fund for Tsunami, Disaster and Climate Preparedness has contributed significantly to the progress made in building regional and national warning systems for coastal hazards. ...

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres unveiled an ‘Executive Action Plan for the Early Warnings for All’ initiative during the World Leaders Summit at COP 27. This call for a universal early warning system coverage ...

<p>Air pollution is increasingly understood as a global issue, requiring an understanding of pollution sources, transport, and transformation from local to regional to global scales (IPCC, 2013). Polluting gases, such as ...

<p>Drought frequency, severity, and magnitude have increased in South-East Asia, particularly over the past two decades. Prolonged and severe drought adversely impact agricultural productivity, threatening food security ...

<p>Drought events have intensified and increasingly threaten the sustainable development of Kyrgyzstan, harming the country&rsquo;s agriculture and many other sectors of the economy. High exposure is due to rising temperature ...

<p>The publication came as one of the results of the project titled &ldquo;Enhancing the capacity of the developing countries in Central Asia on effective use of space applications for drought monitoring and early warning ...

<p class="cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body"><span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Established following the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, the ESCAP Multi-Donor Trust ...

<p>Over the past 53 years (1970-2022) Asia and the Pacific on average has experienced almost ten weather, climate, water, seismic-related disasters per month. This translates to approximately 3,200 lives lost and US$3.8 ...