This report is the only national data compiled in Cambodian history for supporting the development of indigenous peoples in Cambodia as of 2021.
Category: Cambodia
Cambodia mulls carbon neutrality at COP26
Cambodia has developed a 10-year National Strategic Plan for Climate Change, and recently submitted to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change the updated Nationally Determined Contribution
USAID pledges continued development of Kingdom
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced the continuation of its support for Cambodia’s socio-economic development after reaching the 10-year mark for its programme. USAID claims to have helped more than 230,000 Cambodian farmers and their families escape hunger and poverty.
Environment ministry’s Neth Pheaktra on purposeful PR
Right now, the ministry has major efforts underway for the protection and conservation of wildlife and birds in the Prek Toal Ramsar Site and for the preservation of cranes in northeast Cambodia’s Ang Trapeang Thmor nature reserve and we are working on building conservation centres that can provide veterinarian treatment for animals and also provide livelihoods for the communities in the natural protected areas.
Stung Treng Fisheries head calls for dolphin revival plan
Stung Treng provincial Fisheries Administration officials warn that the Irrawady dolphins in the Ochheuteal dolphin pleasance in Borei O’Svay Sen Chey district’s Preah Rumkel commune are now faced with extinction as there is only one dolphin left remaining of the pod that was living there until recently. The officials called on all relevant parties to come up with a rehabilitation plan to increase the number of dolphins in the area.
Cambodia will not allow new coal-fired power plants
Cambodia does not plan to develop anymore new coal-fired power plants in addition to the projects already approved by the Royal Government since 2019, and to switch to low-carbon energy sources such as imported natural gas, LNG or hydrogen instead.
Villagers fear losing land as riverbanks continue to collapse
Compounded by the rising river currents and strong waves, the villagers suspect that the active sand mining in the area has contributed to the riverbank collapse.
US Ambassador says Kingdom in ‘good position to lead’ on sustainability
Brunei symbolically handed the gavel to Cambodia on Thursday, to take over the stewardship of the ten-nation bloc.
Ambassador W Patrick Murphy says Prime Minister Hun Sen’s leadership of ASEAN in 2022 gives Cambodia the opportunity to set an exacting agenda.
Cambodia ‘to achieve 20 percent of energy supplies from solar’
By 2023, seven additional solar power plants with a total capacity of 495 mW are expected to be put into operation, representing 20 percent of the total energy supply.
Executives offer clean options to wood burning
The garment industry is Cambodia’s biggest employer but it is also responsible for 70 percent of the wood burned in the country.