The Multilayered Vulnerability Profile for Pakse City analyzes urban, climate change, and biodiversity dimensions to identify vulnerable areas and hotspots. It highlights challenges including rapid urbanization, flooding, infrastructure gaps, and biodiversity loss, while providing insights to support sustainable and climate-resilient urban development.

The Multilayered Vulnerability Profile for Kaysone Phomvihane, Lao PDR, examines urban, climate change, and biodiversity vulnerabilities to identify key hotspots of overlapping risks. It highlights challenges including rapid urban expansion, flooding, heat stress, infrastructure gaps, and forest loss, supporting evidence-based urban resilience planning.

The Urban-LEDS phase II sought to accelerate the pace of change in cities through targeted support to 72 local governments and 8 national governments to enhance integrated low emission and climate resilient development, access to finance and multi-level governance.
This report presents the learnings and progress from the development of Low Emissions Development Strategies and corresponding Climate Action Plans in 17 cities.

Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is increasingly shifting to a model of governance known as ‘sam-sang’ (3-build system), whereby responsibility is increasingly devolved to local administration levels (province, district and village). This poses an ideal opportunity to implement a well-integrated and vertically coordinated climate change response.

This guide provides governments with practical opportunities for incorporating urban climate action and human settlement issues into NDC revision and enhancement processes. It is primarily targeted at national governments, specifically NDC coordination teams, but also provides insights for sub-national governments, the wider urban community, networks and non-governmental organisations aiming to support NDC enhancement and implementation process. It includes promising examples from submitted…