COP27 Asia Pacific Resilience Hub

The Asia Pacific Resilience Hub was led by the Global EverGreening Alliance, delivering a series of closed-door round table talks to foster open and honest dialogue within the region.

The Regional Resilience Hubs played a crucial role of ensuring the voices and perspectives of traditionally under-represented communities are amplified and heard. They played a central role in illuminating and communicating regional priorities, actions, solutions and challenges on the global stage at COP27.

Key Messages

Key Messages that have come out of this year’s Asia Pacific highlight the strong need to go beyond talk and create action. Key messaging focused on Water Rights, Land Tenure and Climate Finance and Investment. Key messages shared by all roundtables addressed scalability, financial and investment requirements, adaptation action gaps, the need and acknowledgement for local and indigenous knowledge, and the provision of resources to small-holder farmers. Bringing actions to the region’s development agenda, all participants unanimously agreed that now is the moment to act if we are to strengthen our ability to bounce forward in creating climate resilience in the region.

A series of graphic recordings of each regionally-focused thematic round table can be viewed here.

The Aim

Asia Pacific Regional Resilience Hub supported the main Resilience Hub in the run-up to COP27, to ensure that the programming reflected perspectives and priorities from the region, including actions, solutions, and challenges. The Global EverGreening Alliance was in charge of the COP27 Asia Pacific Regional Resilience Hub. The hub gathered knowledge and evidence from government, academia, the private sector, and civil society in order to scale up action toward the common objective of making communities and ecosystems safer, healthier, and more just. The regional hub provided key messages, trends, and inventive solutions to enhance resilience, particularly from the frontline climate warriors, by elevating local voices to the global stage during COP27 in November 2022.

Key Themes

Order of Events

In October, the virtual programme featured four focused roundtable discussions. The targeted dialogues at the virtual roundtables with the key regional organisations centred on three significant thematic areas to understand the primary problems, priority areas, and local initiatives. Priority main themes included climate finance and investment, water rights, and land tenure, intending to capture additional cross-cutting themes such as gender inclusion, promoting local and indigenous knowledge, and amplifying on-the-ground efforts.

The in-person reflective session was held in Resilience Hub at Bluezone in Sharm el-Sheikh on November 12. The Asia Pacific Regional Resilience Hub brought many organisations to openly discuss the challenges confronted and the needed solutions for the region.

Video

Videos from the Asia Pacific Regional Hub can be viewed here or on our YouTube channel. Navigate the playlist using the drop-down list in the top right of the player.

Partners & co-hosts

The COP27 Asia Pacific Regional Resilience Hub was led by the Global EverGreening Alliance.

The below partners hosted Asia Pacific round tables:

Australia Water Partnership

Australia Water Partnership is an organisation that aspires to deliver meaningful and enduring change by supporting, championing, promoting and enabling sustainable water resource management and water security.

BAIF

BAIF Development Research Foundation has been impacting rural lives through its livelihood and climate-resilient programmes for more than 55 years in India. They work across 93,738 villages in 325 districts of 13 states including 59 aspirational districts. It has merged the Gandhian approach to rural prosperity with climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. The organization has a strong human resource base comprising of a multidisciplinary team of professionals, researchers, thematic experts and field practitioners.

The COP27 Asia Pacific Regional Resilience Hub thanks regional partners across the Asia Pacific who have contributed to roundtable discussions and offered case studies, resources, and the region’s important key messages.

Resources

Numerous case studies from Asia-Pacific partners show how local and grassroots communities build climate change resilience. These stories and case-studies explain region’s resilience solutions and locally-led actions, as well as scalable and investor-ready projects for state and non-state actors. Explore regional voices, challenges and solutions here.

The Asia Pacific Regional Hub reached out to partners and stakeholders from the region to gather case-studies and resources. The list of featured resources can be found here.

The Asia Pacific Regional Hub has collated a range of interesting resources and case-studies from across the region. The featured resources have been curated according to theme below.