Project Title
Enhancing Climate Resilience in the Greater Mekong Sub-region through Ecosystem-based Adaptation in the Context of South-South Cooperation
Key Figures
- Budget: $7 million
- Location: Thailand and Viet Nam
- Area rehabilitated: 930 hectares of valuable ecosystems
- Beneficiaries: 60,000 people: 10,000 in the Young River Basin, Thailand and 50,000 in Tram Chim National Park, Viet Nam
- Fund: Adaptation Fund
- Timeframe: 2023-2027
Description
The Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) crosses over six countries, including Thailand and Viet Nam, and supports 75 million people living who rely on its natural resources. Despite the critical importance of the ecosystems of the GMS, they face multiple threats that reduce their capacity to provide goods and services for local communities that depend on these ecosystems for livelihoods.
This project is using Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) to combat drought and flood risk across the GMS, including rehabilitating forests, grasslands, riverbanks, and community forests. In addition, the project is building climate resilience by introducing climate-resilient agriculture, improved water management practices, a national adaptation strategy, and training programmes to build adaptation capacity
Media & Resources
- Project Factsheet
- Project Document
- Publication: A Decade of Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Lessons From the UN Environment Programme
- Climate adaptation resources
Contact
To explore UNEP's other EbA projects, click here.
For more information, contact UNEP-Climate-Adaptation@un.org
