Living in a Changing Climate

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“Living in a Changing Climate” is a joint production of two IUCN and CARE/Raks Thai projects working on Building Coastal Resilience to Climate Change in Coastal Southeast Asia, both supported by the EU. In the last few months, both projects have made steady advances on the ground, in a number of provinces in Viet Nam, Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia. IUCN World Conservation Congress held once every four years - this time on Jeju island in South Korea with 10,000 participants, provided a wonderful opportunity to showcase some of this work to a global audience.

A BCR “Conservation Café” shared experience in a small group round-table setting, while SDF’s Jonathan Shott, was a key resource person who shared experience of conducting Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments in Chanthaburi and Trat Provinces during a day-long Conservation Campus on Disaster Risk Reduction.

In conjunction with these activities at WCC Jeju, “Coastal Resilience Evaluation for Adaptation Through Empowerment” (CREATE) was launched. Vice-Minister Tuyen of MONRE Viet Nam also spoke eloquently on coastal resilience in Viet Nam at a special event at the “Blue Planet Pavilion”

The agreement of an MoU between IUCN and Thai Public Broadcasting Service (TPBS) was also marked by an MoU signing ceremony and Press Conference at Jeju. Under this MoU IUCN and TPBS will collaborate to increase awareness and understanding of climate change issues and adaptation activities through training programmes, TV programming and special events.

You can learn more about these events, and lots of other activities in the rest of this E-News. I am sure you will enjoy it!

Robert Mather
Head of Southeast Asia Group
IUCN