Despite the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, heads of state from nearly 80 countries are heading to the French capital (November 30) for a two-week meeting to craft a new global agreement to cut climate-changing emissions. VOA Khmer's Chhim Sumedh narrates.
Globally some seven million people a year die prematurely due to indoor and outdoor pollution with about 70 per cent of those deaths in region.
Countries in the Asia-Pacific will be particularly vulnerable to climate change, particularly extreme weather.
Officials from around the world are actively preparing for the two-week United Nations Climate Change Conference in France next month, hoping to reach a universal legally binding agreement on limiting carbon emissions, after two decades of negotiations. VOA Khmer's Cheoung Pochin narrates.
Among the remaining issues is a divide between rich and poor countries over who should pay the cost for climate adaptation.
Laos says it intends to go forward with the Don Sahong Dam project, despite opposition from Cambodia and Vietnam.
Cambodia remains increasingly vulnerable to rains that could grow heavier in a changing climate.
Cambodia will participate the global summit on climate change in Paris this December. World leaders will meet to find ways to curb climate change, much of which is the responsibility of developed countries, but with can severely impact poorer countries.
Cambodia is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change, because of its reliance on agriculture and fisheries in a changing hydrological system.
Cambodia has canceled seven out of eight carbon credit projects in the country, between 2011 and 2013.
About 2,000 families were pushed off 19,000 hectares of land that was converted to plantation for sugarcane, which is processed into sugar used by Coca-Cola.
World leaders will meet in December to find ways to curb climate change, much of which is the responsibility of developed countries, but which can severely impact poorer countries.
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