<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(28, 30, 33);">Birds, Climate Change and North Korea - Virtual Talk on 28 May at the Green Climate Fund</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(28, 30, 33);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">No country is spared from the impact of Climate Change. This includes both countries on the Korean Peninsula, South Korea and North Korea. Therefore, it is important that no country is ignored and that governments, institutions and citizens jointly work together to face the challenge and to mitigate and adapt to Climate Change.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(28, 30, 33);"> </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(28, 30, 33);">Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea is based in South Korea and implements projects also in </span><span class="ydpe519550dyiv5831663041textexposedshow"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: inherit, serif; color: rgb(28, 30, 33);">North Korea. And so do many of its project partners. This includes the East – Asian Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP), an organization dedicated to conserve migratory birds on their journey along the East Asian - Australasian Flyway from Alaska and Russia, via China, North Korea and South Korea to places as far as Australia and New Zealand. Therefore, also for the conservation of migratory birds global efforts are urgently required.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(28, 30, 33);"></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: inherit, serif; color: rgb(28, 30, 33);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-size: 10.5pt;">HSF Korea and EAAFP were invited by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the world’s largest dedicated fund helping developing countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and enhance their ability to respond to climate change, to present at the monthly IEU Virtual Talk.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: inherit, serif; color: rgb(28, 30, 33);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-size: 10.5pt;">The topic of the event is Climate change and biodiversity-related action in DPR Korea: Challenges and opportunity”.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: inherit, serif; color: rgb(28, 30, 33);">Doug Watkins, Chief Executive of EAAFP and Dr. Bernhard Seliger, Resident Representative of HSF Korea will be the speakers.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: inherit, serif; color: rgb(28, 30, 33);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-size: 10.5pt;">The GCF IEU Virtual Talk will take place on Thursday, May 28 at 4pm (KST). You can join the talk about birds, climate change and North Korea by registering here: </span><a href="http://ieu.greenclimate.fund/ieu-lunch-talks?fbclid=IwAR196bvttC13Aw_42tCHW1RM13NBBwIAbNxlwT2A3cVRhUhFMtg93BM8YFY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">ieu.greenclimate.fund/ieu-lunch-talks</a></p><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><p class="ydpe519550dyiv5831663041MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="ydpe519550dyiv5831663041MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="ydpe519550dyiv5831663041MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="DE" style="color: black;">Dr. Bernhard Seliger</span><span lang="DE"></span></p><p class="ydpe519550dyiv5831663041MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="DE" style="color: black;">Hanns Seidel Stiftung - Korea Office</span><span lang="DE"></span></p><p class="ydpe519550dyiv5831663041MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="color: black;">Room 401, Soo Young Bldg., 64-1, Hannam 1 Dong, Yongsan-gu</span></p><p class="ydpe519550dyiv5831663041MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="color: black;">04419 Seoul</span></p><p class="ydpe519550dyiv5831663041MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><br><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">+82 2 7905344 (tel.)</span><br></p><p class="ydpe519550dyiv5831663041MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="DE"></span></p><p class="ydpe519550dyiv5831663041MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">+82 2 7905346 (fax)</span></p></div><a href="http://www.hss.de/korea" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.hss.de/korea</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="http://www.asianintegration.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">http://www.asianintegration.org</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div></body></html>