About the Forum
The Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum, the flagship event of the APAN Network, is the primary regional platform for adaptation practitioners to meet, share their learning and experiences, and work together towards the pertinent outcomes and practical solutions that are needed to address the challenges of climate change.
Since the first event in 2010, the APAN Forum has grown to become the venue for scientists, donors, youth, and representatives from over 50 countries to meet, converse, and work together for adaptation action partnerships.
About the 7th APAN ForumThe 7th APAN Forum will be held virtually on 8-12 March 2021 under the theme: Enabling Resilience for All: The Critical Decade to Scale-up Action, sharing learnings from actions towards climate-resilient development.
Resilience is the unifying theme of the Forum, which is structured around four thematic “streams” focusing on
- Inclusive resilience
- Nature-based resilience
- Economic sector resilience
- Communities and local resilience
Hosted by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MoEJ), Government of Japan, together with the APAN Secretariat at UN Environment Programme, the Forum is the largest gathering of adaptation practitioners in the Asia and Pacific region.
Resilience embodies the desired end-point of adaptation, applicable to natural, human, economic, and engineered systems. For this Forum theme, adequate enabling conditions and access to support through which resilience may be built, maintained, and strengthened are identified as a) climate governance; b) planning and processes; c) science and assessment; d) technologies and practices; e) finance and investments.
