High Level Dialogue: Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific - A Development Challenge
ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines: 16-17 June 2009
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Climate change is a global challenge and the case for action is particularly strong in Asia and the Pacific. The region is home to more than half of the world’s poor, who will suffer the most from the adverse impacts of climate change. Moreover, as a consequence of rapid and carbon-intensive economic growth, the region is fast becoming a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
The need for better understanding of climate change in the region has become even more important due to the ongoing time-bound discussions for reaching an agreement on the terms of the international climate change regime beyond 2012 which is supposed to conclude at the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) in Copenhagen in December 2009.
Developing countries in Asia and the Pacific are responding with strategies and programs for both climate change mitigation and adaptation. As the region's development partner, ADB is committed to assist in these efforts by helping fill gaps in financing, capacities, and knowledge.
To help promote further action, ADB in collaboration with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) is convening the High Level Dialogue: Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific - A Development Challenge.
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The Dialogue seeks to catalyze national and regional actions and contribute to global response to climate change.
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- Enhance awareness and knowledge of latest thinking on issues and solutions to the causes and consequences of climate change especially those facing Asia and the Pacific
- Share information and best practices on policies, technologies, and financing that will spur climate change mitigation and adaptation actions in the region
- Promote regional cooperation to ensure that mitigation and adaptation investments provide the greatest benefits and pay off in the long term-regionally, nationally, and locally
- Foster partnerships between policymakers, experts, practitioners, financing entities and other stakeholders to advance climate change solutions
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The Program will focus on three themes:
- Global Policy Challenges For Sustainable Development And Climate Change: Mitigation And Adaptation
- Addressing Climate Change Through Innovative Technologies
- Implications For Financing
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The event will bring together global leaders in the field of climate change, high-level government officials and policymakers, heads or senior representatives from national and multinational financial institutions, private sector/business communities, academe, civil society, development partners and other international organizations
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- Chad O. Holliday, Jr., Chairman and CEO of DuPont, USA
- Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Director-General of TERI, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007
- Haruhiko Kuroda, ADB President
- Hideki Minamikawa, Director-General, Global Environment, Ministry of Environment, Japan
- Hon. Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General, who will participate via video
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