UPDATE: The Adaptation Forum in Bangkok was cancelled. Visit the event website below to read news about schedules.

The Adaptation Forum 2011 (Bangkok, Thailand, 27 to 28 October 2011) will provide a unique opportunity to share frontline findings and innovations, opportunities and challenges in mainstreaming Climate Change adaptation into development. Building on from Adaptation Forum 2010, the Forum this year aims to focus on “Adaptation in Action” signifying a shift from deliberations to decisions, plans to policies and policies to practices.

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BAQ 2010 was held in Singapore from 9 to 11 November at the Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre. The theme of the BAQ2010 conference - managing air quality against the backdrop of a changing climate reflects three key developments: the growing relevance of climate change for air quality management; the rapid urbanization in Asia that requires a total shift in city planning; and the changing role of stakeholders.
Read the souvenir program here.

You are invited to join a live online chat with two climate change specialists on Wednesday, 9 February 2011, 15.00 Manila/ Beijing time to discuss key issues shaping the climate-induced migration debate. Please register for the online discussion 20 minutes before the event. The webchat panel will provide deeper insight into issues that will shape this important public policy challenge.

Robert Dobias, Head of ADB's Climate Change Program Coordination Unit, and François Gemenne, Research Fellow at the Paris-based Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), will answer your questions on climate change and migration.

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The Environments of the Poor in the Context of Climate Change and the Green Economy: Making Sustainable Development Inclusive
New Delhi, India
24-26 November 2010

The conference addresses the challenge of achieving poverty reduction in the face of growing climate variability and change, which directly affect livelihoods and health among people already living in extreme poverty and vulnerable to it. It will take stock of the conceptual understandings and empirical evidence developed in recent years on the environment and poverty nexus, and see how this has influenced the policy formulation and implementation in Asia and the Pacific. The event will take note of studies that rightly point out the ways and degrees to which the very poor are disproportionately affected by climate change, poor transportation patterns, energy poverty, etc.

ADB and others can be leading partners in charting poverty and climate response strategies and programs; the Conference will serve to further inform this agenda and explore room for partnerships involving, in addition to ADB, interested public, donors, private sector, and civil society actors.

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The Fourteenth Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP 14) Meeting was held on 31 March – 2 April, 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland. It was hosted by United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Office for Europe.

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Agenda (PDF)
Final Report (PDF)
List of Participants (PDF)
31 March presentations
1 April presentations

For more information about the meeting, contact the PEP webmaster or email naomi.kabocha@unep.ch or nara.luvsan@unep.ch.

Environment, Climate Change and the MDGs: Reshaping the Development Agenda, A Policy Dialogue in Support of the UN High-level Event on the MDGs, 4:00-7:00pm, 23 September 2008, New York: Click to learn more or watch the video!

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A Partnership Event in support of the UN High-level Event on the MDGs

4:00 – 7:00pm, Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Manhattan Ballroom, Grand Hyatt Hotel
42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, New York

The sub-regional conference was held at the International Cooperation and Training Centre in Vientiane, Lao PDR on June 21-22, 2006.

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The scope of the conference stretches from theoretical to empirical and policy studies, including cooperation for natural resource management, economics of property rights and institutions, bio-economic modelling, economics of agro-biodiversity and studies linking international trade, poverty and the environment.

On 25 April 2006, Tricycle for Livelihood and Ecology or TRIKE Fund launches with a letter of agreement signing involving the Asian Development Bank, the city government of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines and the Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation. This project under the ADB's Poverty and Environment Program addresses pollution reduction to improve health and environment and provides livelihood options to tricycle drivers.

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