Event

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 biennial flagship event of the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network Secretariat, hosted within the UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.

The APAN Forum serves as a primary regional platform for adaptation practitioners to meet, exchange knowledge and experiences, and collaborate towards the pertinent outcomes and practical solutions that are needed to address the challenges of climate change

The 8th APAN Forum will take place in-person from Wednesday 30 August to Friday 1 September during the Korea Global Adaptation Week (KGAW) 2023. This year’s Forum theme is Resilience for All: Enabling transformative implementation. It will be hosted by the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea, the Korea Environment Institute – Korea Adaptation Center for Climate Change and Incheon Metropolitan City as part of the Korea Global Adaptation Week (KGAW) 2023.

Objectives

The APAN Forum aims to:

1. Enhance understanding of climate change adaptation issues, approaches, and policies for effective planning.
2. Provide a comprehensive report on actions taken and progress made to address knowledge, policy, and funding gaps since the last APAN Forum.
3. Serve as a platform for accelerating action and implementing adaptation knowledge and programmes, offering actionable guidelines for communities, practitioners, and policymakers.
4. Formulate recommendations to expand adaptation efforts in the Asia-Pacific region, guiding contributions to COPs and other global/regional initiatives.
5. Promote climate change adaptation and resilience through knowledge sharing, collaboration, and amplification of messages from local to global levels.

Target Participants

Representatives from governments, financing institutions, academia and research, international organisations, UN agencies, civil society organisations, youth organisations and the private sector, among others, will participate in the 8th APAN Forum to work together to build and strengthen partnerships across sectors for adaptation action. The Forum will also provide a space to reflect on the Cop27 outcomes and highlight regional lessons learnt, needs and challenges to serve as inputs into Cop28 discussions to be held at Expo City Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 2023.

To learn more about past APAN Forums, please see  some of our past Forum summary reports:

7th APAN Forum (virtual) summary report here.  6th APAN Forum (in-person) summary report here.

For more information, contact apan.secretariat@un.org