31.03.2024
The session aimed to enhance adaptation practitioners’ understanding of the Loss and Damage Fund as a new finance mechanism. It initiated a dialogue on strategic actions necessary to enhance the Fund’s impact in the region. Also, the session sought to identify actionable steps for...
Where: Songdo Convensia Convention Center, Incheon City, Republic of Korea When: 30 August – 1 September 2023 Background Considered Asia-Pacific’s largest and longest-standing gathering of adaptation practitioners to share information, knowledge and best practices in adaptation and resilience-building, the APAN Forum is the...
Organised by the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network, this webinar is the fourth of a series of webinars for regional climate change adaptation practitioners and policymakers on the important outcomes and themes emerging out of COP 26. The first three webinars focused on Locally-Led Adaptation, Loss...
APAN Newsletter September 2022 The APAN Newsletter is a quarterly publication containing news, updates, events and announcements from organizations working on climate change adaptation in Asia and the Pacific region. This publication is produced by the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) under the UN...
17.10.2022
Speakers during the APAN Webinar, Connecting the dots: climate change and biodiversity interlinkages in Asia-Pacific, from science to policy and practice, 22 September 2022, Zoom. Photo: UNEP-APAN Through the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) webinar, “Connecting the dots: climate change and biodiversity interlinkages...
Date: Sep 22, 2022 Time: 02:00 PM in Bangkok on Zoom Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xIAVEcxUQQOkNomjvIL0mA Both terrestrial and marine biological diversity – or biodiversity– is rapidly declining putting ecosystems and people that depend on them at risk. At the same time, the...
03.08.2022
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Speakers during APAN Webinar on Understanding loss and damage in the Asia and Pacific: science, policy, and mechanisms to avert, minimize, and address impacts held last 21 July 2022 via Zoom. The Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) tackled loss and damage through the webinar,...
Date: 21 July 2022 Time: 2:00-3:30 PM (ICT) Description: Loss and damage (L&D) is a general term used in UN climate negotiations to refer to the consequences of climate change that go beyond what people can adapt to, or when options exist but...
27.02.2018
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The Australian government’s recent Foreign Policy White Paper has been criticized for its underwhelming climate change section. Penny Wong, the current opposition leader in the Australian Senate, said that its acknowledgement of the need to support a more resilient Pacific region “rings hollow in light of the...