On behalf of the APN Inter-Governmental Meeting (IGM), the decision-making body for all of the APN activities, the APN Secretariat is pleased to announce that funding for the following proposals and continuing projects has been approved by the IGM for financial year 2013/14, on the advice received from the APN’s Scientific Planning Group (SPG). This year’s awards were approved on 12 April 2013 at the 18^thIGM convened in Kobe, Japan.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate successful proponents.  We also thank all proponents for their continued interest in, and support of, the APN and its activities.

ARCP proposals approved at the 18^th IGM

1. ARCP2013-14NMY-Miyata: Toward CarboAsia: Integration and Syntheses of Terrestrial Ecosystem Flux Data in Tropics/Subtropics and Croplands in Asia by Activating Regional Tower-Based Observation Networks
2. ARCP2013-15NMY-Manton: Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) in Monsoon Asia
3. ARCP2013-16NMY-Li: Assessing Spatiotemporal Variability of NPP, NEP and Carbon Sinks of Global Grassland Ecosystem in response to Climate Change in 1911-2011
4. ARCP2013-17NMY-Tangang: Southeast Asia Regional Climate Downscaling Project (SEACLID)
5. ARCP2013-18NMY-Prabhakar: Assessing Community Risk Insurance Initiatives and Identifying Enabling Policy and Institutional Factors for Maximizing Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Benefits from Risk Insurance
6. ARCP2013-19NMY-Gomboev: “Boreal and Tropical (Monsoonal) Forests and Forest-Steppes in Asian-Pacific Region in Territory of Russia, Mongolia and China: A Comparative Estimation of the Contribution to Softening of Global Climatic Changes and Working out of Measures on Adaptation to Them”
7. ARCP2013-20NMY-Shrestha: Discharge Scenario and Water Based Adaptation Strategies in South Asia
8. ARCP2013-21NMY-Yamada: Adaptation of Solid Waste Management to Frequent Floods in Vulnerable Mid-Scale Asian Cities
9. ARCP2013-22NMY-Sellers: Mega-Regional Development and Environmental Change in China and India
10. ARCP2013-23NMY-Sthiannopkao: Developing Scientific and Management Tools to Address Impacts of Changing Climate and Land Use Patterns on Water Quality in East Asia’s River Basins
11. ARCP2013-24NSY-Fidelman: Supporting Governance Institutions for Adaptive Capacity to Environmental Change
12. ARCP2013-25NSY-Shahid: Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation in Groundwater-dependent Irrigation  System in Asia-Pacific Region
13. ARCP2013-26NSY-Patankar: Characterizing Public and Private Adaptation to Climate Change and Implications for Long-Term Adaptive Capacity in Asian Megacities
14. ARCP2013-27NSY-Liu: The Impact of Global Warming on Ocean-Atmosphere Feedback Strength at Tropical Indian Ocean

Continuing multi-year ARCP projects approved at the 18^th IGM for a further year

1. ARCP2012-01CMY-Patra (ARCP2013-01CMY-Patra): Greenhouse Gas Budgets of South and Southeast Asia
2. ARCP2012-02CMY-Fortes (ARCP2013-02CMY-Fortes): Seagrass-Mangrove Ecosystems: Bioshields Against Biodiversity Loss and Impacts of Local and Global Change Along Indo-Pacific Coasts” (The Seagrass-Mangrove Bioshield Project, SMBP)
3. ARCP2012-03CMY-Herath (ARCP2013-03CMY-Herath):  Developing Ecosystem-based Adaptation Strategies for Enhancing Resilience of Rice Terrace Farming Systems against Climate Change
4. ARCP2012-09NMY-Meinke (ARCP2013-04CMY-Meinke):  Improving the Robustness, Sustainability, Productivity and Eco-Efficiencies of Rice Systems Throughout Asia
5. ARCP2012-10NMY-Li (ARCP2013-05CMY-Li):  Development of an Integrated Climate Change Impact Assessment Tool for Urban Policy Makers (UrbanCLIM)
6. APCP2012-11NMY-Quynh (ARCP2013-06CMY-Quynh):  Carbon Fluxes and Emission from the Red River (Viet Nam and China): Human Activities and Climate Change
7. ARCP2012-12NMY-Roy (ARCP2013-07CMY-Roy):  Coastal Ecosystem and Changing Economic Activities: Challenges for Sustainability Transition
8. ARCP2012-13NMY-DeCosta (ARCP2013-08CMY-DeCosta):  A Study on Loss of Land Surface and Changes to Water Resources Resulting From Sea Level Rise and Climate Change
9. ARCP2012-14NMY-Carter (ARCP2013-09CMY-Carter):  Coral Reef and Water Quality Status and Community Understanding of Threats in the Eastern Gulf of Thailand
10. ARCP2012-15NMY-Yoo (ARCP2013-10CMY-Yoo):  Toward a Fire and Haze Early Warning System for Southeast Asia
11. ARCP2012-16NMY-Ochiai (ARCP2013-11CMY-Ochiai):  GEOSS/Asian Water Cycle Initiative/Water Cycle Integrator (GEOSS/AWCI/WCI)
12. ARCP2012-17NMY-Burnett (ARCP2013-12CMY-Burnett):   Assessing the Impact of Climate Change and Development Pressures on Nutrient Inputs into the Mekong River and Tonle Sap
13. ARCP2012-18NMY-Sase (ARCP2013-13CMY-Sase):  Dynamics of Sulphur Derived from Atmospheric Deposition and its Possible Impacts on the East Asian Forests

CAPaBLE proposals approved at the 18^th IGM

1. CBA2013-03NMY-D’Arrigo : ACRE SE Asia – Towards New Weather and Climate Baselines for Assessing Weather and Climate Extremes, Impacts and Risks over SE Asia
2. CBA2013-04NSY-WCRP:I nternational Conference on Regional Climate CORDEX 2013
3. CBA2013-05NSY-Sutrisno : The Implementation of Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing Technology for Sustainable Disaster Managemen
4. CBA2013-06NSY-Shrestha : Enhancing the Groundwater Management Capacity in Asian Cities through the Development and Application of Groundwater Sustainability Index in the Context of Global Change
5. CBA2013-07NSY-Dahal : Policy Brief ‘Writeshop’ for Early Career Researcher: An Approach to Promote Greater Science-Policy Interface in South Asia
6. CBA2013-08NSY-SOLAS : Capacity Building on Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study: The SOLAS Summer School
7. CBA2013-09NSY-Schuttenberg : Building Capacity for Socio-Ecological Resilience to Coral Bleaching Events in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand
8. CBA2013-10NSY-Visco : Communicating and Operationalizing Site-Specific Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Selected Vulnerable Upland Communities in Southeast Asia
9. CBA2013-11NSY-Pakharkova : Scale in Earth System Governance: Local Case Studies and Global Sustainability
10. CBA2013-12NSY-Fu : Promoting the Sustainability Science in Monsoon Asian Region
11. CBA2013-13NSY-Varma: Building Capacity for Adaptive Governance through Participatory Modelling: Rural and Urban Flooding in India
12. CBA2013-14NSY-Barik : Promoting Algaculture in Trapped Waters as Sustainable Aqua-Farming and Adaptive Climate Mitigation in Inundated Coastal Areas
13. CBA2013-15NSY-Heinrich-Sanchez : Building Capacity on Marine Litter Management in the NOWPAP (Northwest Pacific Action Plan) Region
14. CBA2013-16NSY-Dargantes : Strengthening the Capability of Colleges of Agriculture in Incorporating Food and Water Security and Climate Change and Climate Variability into Curricular Programs, Research and Extension Projects and Teaching Modules

Continuing multi-year CAPaBLE projects approved at the 18^th IGM for a further year

1. CBA2012-03NMY-Rasul: Impact of Climate Change on Glacier Melting and Water Cycle Variability in Asian River Basins
2. CBA2012-09NMY-Hashim: Global Environmental Change and Human Health:  Extreme Events and Urbanization in the APN Region