Webinar Series: “Advancing Climate Action, Community Resilience & Knowledge Collaboration in Asia Pacific”.
The Asia-Pacific region stands at the frontline of the global climate crisis. Over the past decade, the frequency, scale, and complexity of climate-related hazards have increased significantly, affecting millions of lives and disrupting social, economic, and ecological systems. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Asia is warming at a rate higher than the global average, intensifying extreme events such as heatwaves, heavy precipitation, floods, droughts, cyclones, lightning incidents, vector-borne outbreaks, and slow-onset risks including sea-level rise and ecosystem degradation.1 These compounding hazards interact with existing vulnerabilities like poverty, rapid urbanization, fragile ecosystems, and infrastructural gaps producing a risk landscape that is increasingly systemic and unpredictable.
Against this backdrop, The 2026-2027 Webinar series is organised by the Climate Action Resources Network -Asia Pacific (CARN-AP) in co-collaboration with the Blue Community PRISM from India, the Blue Community Network and other partners. It is initially proposed to be a 19-month webinar series on “Advancing Climate Action, Community Resilience & Knowledge Collaboration in Asia Pacific” from January 2026 via zoom platform. This webinar series aims to create a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary knowledge domain that strengthens collaboration between scientific institutions, practitioners, CSOs, government agencies, youth groups, innovators, and communities. The series will address emerging, under-recognised, and high-impact themes from climate science to public health, resilience behaviour, gender inclusion, innovation, and community-centred action to support risk-informed and sustainable climate development across the Asia-Pacific region.
Start: 12 January 2026 Inauguration. Registration here
Download the full concept note here (PDF): CN&Agenda Monthly Webinar series with CARNAP-PRISM
