The 7th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum met under the theme “Enabling Resilience for All: The Critical Decade to Scale-up Action,” with participants sharing learnings from actions towards climate-resilient development.
Forum participants developed a set of recommendations under five enabling conditions, including on:
— climate governance, the need for a whole-of-society approach to resilience;
— planning and processes, an emphasis on political will, leadership, and putting people at the center;
— science and assessment, the need for a bottom-up approach to innovation and solutions in adaptation and strengthening regional and transboundary cooperation;
— technologies and practice, the need to value capital in all its dimensions; and
— finance and investment, the need to integrate climate change into development finance and private sector investment.
The Forum deepened discussion on each enabler through four thematic resilience streams in parallel technical sessions, namely: (i) inclusive resilience; (ii) nature-based resilience; (iii) economic sector resilience; and (iv) communities and local resilience.
The Forum was hosted by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, together with the Asia-Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) Secretariat, which the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) provides. It was held virtually due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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