Press Releases / #climate risk
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
What can we see about climate change in macroeconomic data?
Year by year researchers improve and deepen our understanding of economic activity. The primary example, and probably the most commonly used, is the detailed data and analysis available on gross …
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
IFC and QBE Insurance team up to drive building resilience in Asia Pacific
International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group and the largest global development institution focused …
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Amid scorching temperatures, India turns to ideas both old and new to beat the heat
With each passing year, hundreds of millions of Indians eye the approach of summer with trepidation. This year, …
The United Nations Forum on Forests commenced its twentieth session today, as speakers spotlighted the connection between healthy …
All #climate risk Press Releases
27 April 2025
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
'Engines of opportunity, centres of vulnerability': The growing challenges of Asia Pacific's cities
28 March 2025
Imagine H2O Asia
Announcing Imagine H2O Asia’s 6th cohort of water entrepreneurs
25 March 2025
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Historic canals take centre stage as Kochi, India aims to blunt fallout from climate change
3 March 2025
UN Development Programme (UNDP)
Green Climate Fund approves US$103 million to strengthen early warning systems for vulnerable countries
24 February 2025
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
World must pull together to build a fairer, more sustainable planet: UNEP annual report
16 February 2025
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Small island nations: How oceans offer solutions to climate change
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
How the pact to protect the ozone layer is helping counter climate change
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
How the world can tackle the yawning gender gap in the sciences
10 February 2025
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Asia-Pacific region to chart bold path for migration governance
24 January 2025
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
UNEA-7 charts a path toward a resilient planet
20 January 2025
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Resilience rising: Targeting transformative disaster risk reduction in Asia-Pacific subregions
14 January 2025
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Economic resilience in East and South Asia supports global growth amid challenges: UN flagship economic report
13 December 2024
1 November 2024
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Climate change could reduce GDP in developing Asia and the Pacific by 17% by 2070
28 October 2024
Health Care Without Harm Southeast Asia
Global climate and health leaders convene in Vietnam to tackle equity, sustainability and climate resilience
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