21 January 2021 - Source: Australia Myanmar Institute During the coronavirus lockdown AMI will hold its seminars using Zoom and post recordings later in the website and the Facebook page. Australia Myanmar Institute invites you to a scheduled Zoom meeting Date: January 25, 2021 (Monday) Duration: 1 ...
On the path to net-zero greenhouse emissions by 2050
16 January 2021 - Source: The Global New Light of Myanmar The fifth anniversary of the Paris climate accord, which more than 190 countries signed on to in 2015, was held virtual online on Dec.12, 2020. Speaking at the opening of the Climate Summit, UN chief Antonio Guterres called on governments to ...
Agriculture ministry wants more dams amid water shortage
14 January 2021 - Source: Myanmar Times The country's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, is considering building more dams to address the increasing water scarcity in the country due to less rainfall. U Myo Tint Htun, deputy permanent secretary of the ministry, said the proper use of...
MoALI holds meeting on water supply activities to address water scarcity due to climate change
11 January 2020 - Source: The Global New Light of Myanmar Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation held a coordination meeting on water resources and measures to address water scarcity caused by climate change yesterday afternoon in accordance with the COVID-19 prevention directives in Nay ...
ရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲမှုကိုခုခံဖို့ သီရိလင်္ကာအတွက် ရေအရင်းအမြစ်ဘက်စုံ စီမံခန့်ခွဲမှုစနစ်ဆိုင်ရာ ဖြေရှင်းချက်များ
သီရိလင်္ကာနိုင်ငံသည် တောင်အာရှရှိ မြေဆီဩဇာကောင်းမွန်သည့် အပူပိုင်းဒေသကျွန်းတကျွန်းဖြစ်သည်။ ရာသီဥတု၊ မြေဆီကောင်းမွန်ခြင်းနှင့် ရေအရင်းအမြစ်ရရှိမှုသည် စိုက်ပျိုးရေးကဏ္ဍကို နိုင်ငံစီးပွားရေးအတွက် အရေးပါကြီးစိုးသည့်ကဏ္ဍတရပ်ဖြစ်စေသည်။ နိုင်ငံ့ဂျီဒီပီ (စုစုပေါင်းပြည်တွင်းထုတ်ကုန်) ၏(၇) ရာခိုင်နှုန်း...
Marking the 5th anniversary of the Paris climate agreement in Myanmar
12 December 2020 - Source: Mizzima News from Myanmar The European Union Delegation and the Heads of Missions of the EU Member States resident in Myanmar are taking the opportunity on 12 December to mark the 5th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, according to a press release. This historical deal is...
World Toilet Day and Urban Sanitation: Live Streaming Panel Discussion on Global Toilet Day
19th of November is World Toilet Day and the time has come to celebrate the advocacy day to realize more about the importance of sanitation. WASH Thematic Group has arranged an awareness sharing campaign via online live streaming with three panelists who are currently working in respective departmen...
Climate change vulnerability assessment of Labutta Township Ayeyawady Region, Myanmar, 2016-2050: Scenarios for resilience building [EN/MY]
In 2016 the Myanmar Climate Change Alliance, comprised of UN-Habitat, UNEnvironment and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, in collaboration with WWF and Columbia University conducted a detailed climate change vulnerability assessment of Labutta Township. Labutta is loc...
Impacts of climate change on human health
27th OCT 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar In the articles related to the climate change written a few years back, I had discussed mainly, the factors that led to the deteriorations of the climatic conditions and their effects on the ecosystem and the Earth. After the recent collision of th...
Assessment of climate change vulnerability of Hakha Township, Chin State, Myanmar 2017–2050: Scenarios for resilience building
This assessment analyses the vulnerability of the ecosystem, infrastructure, and socio-economic conditions in Hakha Township located in Chin State, Myanmar in relation to present and projected climatic conditions. It concludes that the current vulnerability of Hakha Township is high, and with the pr...
Climate change vulnerability assessment for Pakokku Township, Magway Region, Myanmar, 2016-2050: Scenarios for resilience building
This assessment analyses the vulnerability of the ecological, infrastructure and socio-economic conditions of Pakokku in relation to the present and projected climatic conditions. It concludes that vulnerabilities in Pakokku are high and that changes in climate will require decision-makers of Pakokk...
ရာသီဥတု ပြောင်းလဲ ဖောက်ပြန်လာမှုကြောင့် ထိခိုက်နစ်နာနေကြသည့် တောင်သူများအတွက် ဖြေဆေးမရှိသေးပါ
16 Aug 2020 - Source: Eleven Media Group Co.,Ltd. ■ ရွှေကိုမလို ရေကိုလိုကြသူများ "မိုးစပါး မစိုက်ရတာ သုံးနှစ်ရှိသွားပြီ။ ဒီနှစ်လည်း မိုးခေါင်နေတော့ မိုးစပါးမစိုက်ရဘူး။ မိုးရွာဦးမှာလားလို့ တောင်သူတွေက မျှော်နေကြတာ။ မိုးက ရေရတဲ့အထိ မရွာဘူး။ စိုက်ပျိုးထားတဲ့ သီးနှံအချို့လည်း မိုး မရွာလို့ ပျက်စီးသ...
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Involvement of Department of Meteorology and Hydrology in AIRBM - An interview with Dr. Lai Lai Aung
The Ayeyarwady Integrated River Basin Management (AIRBM) project has started in September 2015, with aid from World Bank ($100 million). It supports Myanmar to develop the institutions and tools for water resource management and implementation of integrated river basin management in the Ayeyarwady B...
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Focus on planting trees taking advantage of monsoon rain to save our environment
15 JUN 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Taking advantage of the ongoing monsoon rain in the country, volunteers and forest departments in regions and states are planning to plan saplings in the respective regions.Local forest departments distribute saplings to schools, colleges, gov...