Mangrove Protection and Coastal Waste Management in Dikkowita

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Waste management is an issue for many coastal districts of Sri Lanka, especially densely populated and industrialized ones such as Gampaha. In Dikkowita between Colombo and Negombo, SLYCAN Trust is working with the Marine Environment Protection Authority and other government institutions on a multi-stakeholder driven plan to clean up the polluted canals and mangrove lagoons, introduce waste collection nets to the source of waste flowing in to the area of restoration, and establish a waste management plan for the entire area.

Community-Driven Mangrove Restoration in Kalpitiya

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Sri Lanka's tourism sector has been growing rapidly since 2009. Ecotourism is a subset of sustainable tourism (which is on the rise world-wide) that focuses on tourism to natural areas while conserving the environment and sustaining the well-being of local people.

Mangrove Ecosystems in Sri Lanka : Climate Change Impacts and Community Based Conservation

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Sri Lanka is home to more than twenty species of true mangroves, around one third of all mangrove species in the world. They thrive along lagoons and estuaries and currently cover around 19,500 hectares of the island. The country has pledged to restore an additional 10,000 hectares by 2030 with three strategies: protecting existing mangroves, converting abandoned shrimp farms and salterns, and restoring degraded mangroves.

Regional Workshop on Identifying and Addressing Policy Gaps and Needs for Climate Action and Achieving Sustainable Development

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On September 17th and 18th, the Climate Change Secretariat of the Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment, SLYCAN Trust, Prakriti Resources Centre, ICCCAD, and the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research organised a two day regional stakeholder workshop at Galle Face Hotel, Colombo. The workshop focused on addressing policy gaps and needs in the implementation of National Determined Contributions (NDCs) at the national and regional level. It also focused on building synergies between NDCs, National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Integrating Gender Responsiveness to Climate Change Adaptation Actions, and Moving towards Gender Responsive NDCs and NAPs

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MRV Mechanisms Related to Nationally Determined Contributions and Reporting of Climate Action

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Climate Risk and Risk Management for Evidence-Based Climate Adaptation Action

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SLYCAN Trust

Integration of SDGs, the Sendai Framework, DRR, and NDCs for Effective Developmental Planning

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SLYCAN Trust

Integration of Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans for Effective Adaptation Actions

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SLYCAN Trust

Policy Gaps and Needs Analysis for the Implementation of NDCs on Adaptation and Loss and Damage in Nepal

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SLYCAN Trust

Policy Gaps and Needs Analysis for the Implementation of NDCs on Adaptation and Loss and Damage in Bangladesh

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Policy Gaps and Needs Analysis for the Implementation of NDCs on Adaptation and Loss and Damage in Sri Lanka

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SLYCAN Trust

Policy Gaps and Needs Analysis for the Implementation of NDCs on Adaptation and Loss and Damage in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka

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SLYCAN Trust

Interview with Dr Saleemul Huq

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Interview with Samantha Kumarasena

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Interview with Dr Sugath Yalegama

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Interview with Chamila Weerathunge

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Interview with Basanta Paudel

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Policy and Legal Mechanisms for Effective Implementation of NDCs

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National Workshop on Policy Gaps and Needs Analysis for the Implementation of NDC on Adaptation and Loss and Damage in Nepal

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SLYCAN Trust

A national workshop on Policy Gaps and Needs Analysis for the Implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions on Adaptation and Loss and Damage in Nepal was conducted on 12th July, 2019 in Kathmandu, Nepal. The event was organised as part of the regional research led by SLYCAN Trust on identifying and addressing policy gaps and needs for the implementation of NDCs on adaptation and loss and damage in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. 

National Workshop on Policy Gaps and Needs Analysis for the Implementation of NDCs on Adaptation and Loss and Damage in Bangladesh

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Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are a key component underthe Paris Agreement. Bangladesh has submitted its first NDCs in 2015 andoutlined its intended actions across ten different sectors: Food security, livelihoods,and health protection, disaster management, coastal zone management, floodcontrol and erosion protection, climate resilient infrastructure, ruralelectrification, urban resilience, ecosystem-based adaptation, community-basedwetland and coastal conservation, and capacity building. As Bangladesh is oneof the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change, implementingthe adaptation and loss and damage components of its NDCs is of greatimportance. Accordingly, Bangladesh has included not only mitigation actionsbut also adaptation components into its NDCs.

Gender Responsive Climate Change Adaptation

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Climate change impacts are felt across the world and exacerbate the existing vulnerabilities among humans, animals, and ecosystems. The Fifth Assessment Report of the Inter-Government Panel on Climate Change (AR5 IPCC) speaks on how climate change impacts existing vulnerabilities related to non-climatic factors and multidimensional inequalities, and how they shape differential risks from climate change. It further provides that people who are socially, economically, culturally, politically, institutionally, or otherwise marginalized, including social processes such as discrimination on the basis of gender, are especially vulnerable to climate change.

Policy Gaps & Needs Analysis for the Implementation of Adaptation and Loss & Damage NDCs of Sri Lanka, Nepal & Bangladesh

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Gender Sensitive NDCs and the Development of Gender Action Plans at the Country Level

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Climate Displacement and Internal Migration in Sri Lanka.

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Climate Change and Agricultural Insurance in Sri Lanka

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Community-Based Mangrove Conversation and Restoration using Local and Technical Knowledge

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Reviewing Adaptation Actions in the Urban, City Planning, and Human Settlement Sector

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SLYCAN Trust

A stakeholder consultation on the urban, city planning, and human settlement sector of Sri Lanka was held at the Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment on 26th July 2019. Initiated by the Climate Change Secretariat and organised with the technical support of SLYCAN Trust, it focused on the review and update of Sri Lanka’s Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plan relating to the urban, city planning and human settlement sector. Experts from government institutes and international organizations contributed to the discussion.

Building Resilience through Economic Diversification

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With global attention focused on the implementation of adaptation activities to address the impacts of climate change and efforts towards climate-resilient development, economic diversification has been viewed as a means of a country’s drive towards sustainable economic growth and stability.

Impacts of Salinisation on Agricultural Livelihoods

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SLYCAN Trust

Agriculture is one of the main sectors impacted by the impacts of climate change and its effects are very much felt due to the dependency on the natural resources that this livelihood has. Among the impacts on the agriculture sector are the impacts of the slow onset events of climate change.

Accessing Climate Finance and Gender Sensitive Climate Action

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SLYCAN Trust

Climate change renders women disproportionately vulnerable to its impacts as a result of persisting gender norms and discrimination. This is evidenced in terms of the impacts of climate change affecting scarcity of water, food security, disaster situations and fuel shortage, thereby having a drastic impact on women’s human rights as well as on gender equalit

Moving Grounds: Climate Migration and Refugees

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SLYCAN Trust

As climate change alters long-term weather patterns and leads to increasing droughts, floods, and storms, more and more people are turned into climate migrants a

Women, Children and Climate Change: The Struggles of Vulnerable Groups Forced to Move

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SLYCAN Trust

In the past decade, extreme weather events have been triggered all over Sri Lanka, taking place more and more frequently and intensely. The severe drought conditions in districts such as Jaffna and Polonnaruwa have continued unceasingly since 2016. More recently, the intense floods experienced in May-June 2018 in most Southwestern and Central regions of Sri Lanka saw the displacement of tens of thousands of families.

Climate Migration: The New Wave of Refugees?

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SLYCAN Trust

Climate change is considered the greatest threat that Earth has to counter in this century. Due to intensified human activity and unsustainable use of the planet’s resources, the percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased while the planet’s ability to absorb the excess carbon dioxide has decreased due to the elimination and degradation of natural carbon sinks such as forests and oceans. This imbalance in the atmosphere has led to increased global warming over a long period of time, and scientists have confirmed the existence of climate change.

Colombo's Urban Wetlands: On Becoming and Staying a Ramsar Wetland City

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The city of Colombo is the capital of Sri Lanka and its economic, political, and cultural focal point. Since October 2018, it is also South Asia's only Wetland City under the Ramsar Convention. With concerted efforts from government, communities, and all affected stakeholders, this opens the way for Colombo to become a model for urban wetland conservation and benefit from the many ecosystem services they offer.

Integrating Climate Change Adaptation with the SDGs and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

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Three landmark global agendas were produced in 2015: the Paris Agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030.[1]

Sri Lanka's Preparedness to Address Climate Hazards

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Sri Lanka, being a party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has submitted its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and its National Adaptation Plan (NAP) in 2016.