Updates
APN at the 8th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation (APAN) Forum: Enhancing community resilience for climate change adaptation in the Asia-Pacific Region
Conditionally approved new projects for fiscal year 2023 (July 2023 – June 2024)
Fifty-second Steering Committee Meeting approves new projects and activities for fiscal year 2023
Core activities
Regional research
Through the competitive Collaborative Regional Research Programme (CRRP), we promote regional research that has potential to improve our understanding of global change and its implications while contributing to the sound scientific basis for policymaking in areas affected by global change.
Explore regional researchCapacity development
CAPaBLE, our scientific capacity development programme, aims to enhance the capacities of scientists, policymakers and practitioners to assess global change issues, and explore options to resolve the issues towards achieving sustainability. Through CAPaBLE, we support activities that enhance capacities at the individual, organizational and systemic levels.
Explore capacity developmentScience-policy linkages
One of our goals is to strengthen the interactions among scientists and policymakers. To this end, we work with governments, project teams and international partner organizations to develop policy-relevant knowledge products and to create empowering environments conducive to enhancing science-policy interactions.
Explore science-policy linkages
Our impact
More than
projects funded since 1996
More than
awarded as project grants as of July 2020 (in USD)
projects led by researchers and practitioners from developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region
publications produced
Recent publications
Spatial and temporal variations and risk assessment of heavy metal fractions in sediments of the Pearl River Estuary, Southern China
Air quality management status and needs of countries in South Asia and Southeast Asia
Developing capacity for post-typhoon disaster waste management in Lautoka, Fiji, and Makati, Philippines
Mapping groundwater resilience to climate change and human development in Asian cities
Latest projects
