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Policy Guidance Brief 6: Building a Resilient Myanmar Society through Education, Science and Technology

This Guidance Brief is intended as a guide for understanding key sectoral challenges, strategic objectives and specific actions to effectively address climate change in Myanmar. The guidance brief focuses on the pivotal role of the education, science and technology sectors in creating a knowledge-based society to drive Myanmar's inclusive and resilient economic social development.

Policy Guidance Brief 5: Managing Climate Risks for People's Health and Well-being, 2017 (Myanmar)

The Guidance Brief is a tool to effectively address climate change in Myanmar by aiding the understanding of key sectoral challenges, strategic objectives and specific actions. The guidance brief deals with potential health risks from climate change including: increase of waterborne and vector-borne diseases, heat-related illnesses, injuries and deaths, food insecurity, and increased malnutrition.

Policy Guidance Brief 4: Building Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Cities and Towns in Myanmar, 2017

This Guidance Brief is intended as a guide for understanding key sectoral challenges, strategic objectives and specific actions to effectively address climate change in Myanmar. Climate change is expected to have significant negative impacts on urban centers in Myanmar, including impact on urban infrastructure and services, increased rural-urban migration, enormous socio-economic costs, and health implications. Unless addressed, these impacts will impede the country’s development.

Policy Guidance Brief 1: Climate-smart Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock for Food Security, 2017 (Myanmar)

The Guidance Brief is a tool to effectively address climate change in Myanmar by aiding the understanding of key sectoral challenges, strategic objectives and specific actions. Climate change has already challenged the agriculture sector in Myanmar by affecting rice yields and livestock production. There is an urgent need of further action to promote sustainable agriculture by adapting crop varieties and corresponding farming practices, improving water management especially in rice production, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from rice and livestock farming, promoting integrated farming systems and enhancing the capacity of farmers to respond to climate risks.

Policy Guidance Brief 2: Sustainable Management of Natural Resources for Healthy Ecosystems

Policy Guidance Brief 3: Resilient and Low-Carbon Energy, Transport and Industrial Systems for Sustainable Growth, 2017 (Myanmar)

The Guidance Brief is a tool to effectively address climate change in Myanmar by aiding the understanding of key sectoral challenges, strategic objectives and specific actions. Limited access to electricity in the country translates to a greater risk to energy connectivity across the country in the face of climate change.

The Rules of Procedure for Environmental Cases: Annotation to the Rules of Procedure for Environmental Cases

The effort to formulate this separate set of rules is a response to the long felt need for more specific rules that can sufficiently address the procedural concerns that are peculiar to environmental cases. Most of the provisions included here are therefore remedies that are directed to the actual difficulties encountered at present by concerned government agencies, corporations, practitioners, people’s organizations, non-governmental organizations, and public-interest groups handling environmental cases.

Citizens' Handbook on Environmental Justice

The Citizen’s Handbook on Environmental Justice is a citizen-friendly material designed to help ordinary people or laypersons bring environmental cases before the courts. It is a tool to encourage citizen participation in the enforcement of environmental laws, in recognition of the key role citizens play in the protection and promotion of the environment. It is an easy reference on the various environmental violations and the procedures entailed when a case is brought before the proper forum or the court.

Environmental Impact Assessment in the Mekong Region

The Environmental Impact Assessment seeks to bring together in one volume an analysis of the environmental impact assessment systems of each of the six Mekong countries, including the common themes and approaches.

Access to Environmental Justice: A Source on Environmental Rights and Legal Remedies

Access to Environmental Justice: A Sourcebook on Environmental Rights and Legal Remedies is a recognition of the urgency of environmental justice as our common concern, the fundamental character of environmental rights and the necessity of environmental remedies. It outlines the pioneering efforts of the Supreme Court and the entire judiciary to translate into concrete programs the vision of our Constitution for a balanced and healthful ecology.