<p>Ahead of COP-27, UN ESCAP, together with other Regional Commissions, partners with the incoming Egyptian Presidency of COP27 and the UN High-Level Champions for Climate Action to organize a series of five regional forums ...

Countries in the Asia-Pacific region are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, yet their climate action commitments are also critical to the achievement of 1.5&deg;C goals. So far, 49 member States of the ...

<p>This technical report examines the practical ways to strengthen environmental impact assessment (EIA) procedures in ASEAN to address critical environmental and human rights issues. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and ...

In late-2019, few would have imagined that it would be a global pandemic, not climate change, that would dominate the global agenda. While the pandemic continues to demand government attention throughout the Asia-Pacific ...

The Asia Pacific region is exposed to a risk landscape of natural disasters and environmental change, income inequality, gender-based and other socio-cultural discrimination, and economic and political pressures that are ...

Seventy-five years ago, the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East was established in Shanghai with the aim of helping the region rebuild from the ashes of war. At the time, many post-colonial territories in the ...

The Asian and Pacific Centre for the Development of Disaster Information Management (APDIM) in collaboration with the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) ...

Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2022 for ESCAP subregions: Summary for Policymakers builds on ESCAP’s Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2021, Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report 2022 and the latest reports (2021/2022) issued ...

Throughout 2021, the Asia-Pacific region was subject to a multitude of disaster events including cyclones, earthquakes, floods, and droughts. While such hazards are indiscriminate in their nature, their impacts have been ...