The 60th Steering Committee (SC) of the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) was held in Bangkok, Thailand, on July 8, 2026. During the meeting, a total of sixteen (16) proposals were approved, as listed below. We extend our sincere congratulations to this year’s successful proponents. The APN Secretariat will be in touch shortly to discuss the conditions of the award. We sincerely appreciate the interest shown by all proponents in APN and its activities.

Collaborative Regional Research Programme (CRRP)

1. CRRP2025-FP03-McElwee: Barriers and enablers to integrated management across the biodiversity-water-food-health-climate nexus in Southeast Asia
2. **CRRP2025-FP08-Feisal: Establishing a Southeast Asian Network for Airborne Microbiome Monitoring and Climate-Driven Risk Assessment
3. **CRRP2025-FP09-Wan Mohd Jaafar: Expanding an Integrated Urban Heat Island Assessment Framework for Climate-Resilient Development in Southeast Asian Megacities
4. CRRP2025-FP13-Asmat: Harmonising Emission Inventories to Strengthen Transboundary Air Quality Management in Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia
5. CRRP2025-FP18-Cheah: Ridge to Reef Carbon Resilience: Hybrid AI and Hydrodynamic Diagnostics of Green to Blue Carbon Connectivity in Southeast Asia
6. CRRP2025-FP19-Gautam: ELEVATE: Extreme Landscape Events, Vulnerability Assessment, Transboundary Collaboration and Enhanced Adaptation
7. CRRP2025-FP21-Tamton: Seaweed Ecosystems for Adaptive Wellbeing, Economic Advancement, and Sustainable Livelihoods, Tradition and Health (SEAWEALTH): Case study for Kiribati, Marshall Islands and the Solomon Islands. (Seed Grant)
8. **CRRP2025-FP22-Munkhbat: Mapping Plastic Pollution Pathways: integrating observation and citizen science approach to link residential sources and environmental contamination (Seed Grant)
9. **CRRP2025-FP24-Sarangi: Increasing Air Pollution and its impact on regional Water security and climate adaptation in the Himalayas

Scientific Capacity Development Programme (CAPaBLE)

1. **CBA2025-FP02-Sivasankran: Cooling the Heat, Healing the Mind: Building Climate-Health Resilience for Outdoor Workers Across Malaysia, India, and the Maldives
2. **CBA2025-FP04-Bisri: Strengthening the Science-Policy Interface through Capacity Building for Anticipatory Action: Operationalizing Sentinel Asia for Transboundary Climate Risk Management in ASEAN and the Pacific
3. **CBA2025-FP05-Subbarayalu: Building marine ecosystem resilience: Capacity building for small-scale fishers to advance SDGs13 and 14 in Asian countries
4. CBA2025-FP09-Ishigaki: Overcoming Barriers to Alternative Waste Management for Climate-Friendly and Eliminating Plastic Polution in ASEAN Cities
5. **CBA2025-FP10-Basnet: Strengthening Community Radio for Climate and Disaster Justice in South Asia
6. **CBA2025-FP12-Terao: Establishing a Regional Alliance for Extreme Precipitation Observation: Coordinated Capacity Development and Quality Management of High-Resolution Automatic Weather Stations in South Asia
7. **CBA2025-FP15-Tahir: Last Mile First: Translating Digital Flood Alerts into Offline Communication for Low-Literacy Rural Communities in South Asia

**The Secretariat will promptly reach out to the proponents of the aforementioned proposals within 7 days of this announcement.