Myanmar is one of the countries in Asia most affected by climate change. While Myanmar’s pre-coup governments made efforts to address climate challenges before the 2021 military coup, the coup has aggravated the situation and made it more difficult to tackle climate and environmental challenges. In the post-coup context how can Myanmar’s democratic national unity institutions contribute to tackling climate change in a future federal democratic Myanmar? What kind of policy decisions need to be made and how can the international community support Myanmar?

Find out more in the interview by Marcus Brand, the Head of International IDEA’s Myanmar programme with Niall O'Connor, the Director of the Asia Centre of the Stockholm Environment Institute: https://www.sei.org/centres/asia/.

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- https://constitutionnet.org/vl/item/m...
- https://www.idea.int/theme/climate-ch...