Bottom-up Approaches to Building Resilience, Adaptive Capacity, and Financing in Water in Asia and the Pacific

Speakers in this COP27 Water Pavilion session discuss how financing needs and innovative approaches identified at the local level and aligned with broader water security and resilience goals are required to tackle above challenges. It includes the launch of a new initiative with partners, keynote speeches from the initiative partners and development member countries, and a high-level panel discussion with MDBs, bilateral, and financing partners. The discussion focuses on sharing of what has worked and not worked and what needs to be done more or what may need to change course on mobilizing more financing on water related SDGs to achieve climate adaptation needs toward resilience, adaptive capacity and water security in the region.

Organizers: Asian Development Bank, Government of the Netherlands, Government of Japan, Government of the Republic of Korea, GMGF, Green Climate Fund, Sanitation and Water for All (SWA), OECD, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA)