What is the actual impact of an intensified development focus on rural women?
Category: Laos
Payments to protect forest carbon must increase to defend against rubber plantations
Efforts to protect tropical forests in Southeast Asia for the carbon they store may fail because protection payments are too low
Ecotourism payments for wildlife sightings benefit conservation in Laos
Higher payments for more wildlife sightings and improved protections for wildlife work.
Mekong through photographers’ eyes: ‘disaster after disaster’
Photographers Gareth Bright and Luke Forsyth travelled from the sea to the source of the Mekong and found people struggling to adapt to rapid changes
Mekong nations agree to share information
Guidelines to be formulated this week on how to share information and technology to jointly manage the transnational river.
Hydropower and sand connectivity in the Mekong
Improved trade-offs of hydropower and sand connectivity by strategic dam planning in the Mekong
Cambodia, Laos losing the last of their trees
Despite official pledges to halt the trade, smugglers in Cambodia and Laos are finding ways to illegally ship timber to Vietnam. The precious hardwood is often used in furniture factories that ship their products largely to China.
Global surveys indicate uphill battle for Laos
At least three global surveys disclosed their findings recently, with all three indicating that Laos is going backwards in term of in global development rankings
Research: Greenhouse gas emissions of hydropower in the Mekong River Basin
The Mekong River Basin in Southeast Asia is undergoing extensive hydropower development, but the magnitude of related greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are not well known.
Hydropower construction 90% complete
The developer has said natural-like fish ladders have been developed to enable fish to migrate upstream and downstream.