Transforming Asia: Scaling up the Solutions

This report by Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific outlines the need to transform Asia's economic and political systems to address the dual crises of inequality and climate change. It advocates for the 'scaling up' of community-led, sustainable solutions and provides a ten-point set of recommendations for regional governments and institutions to ensure public service access, corporate accountability, and a transition to 100% renewable energy.

• The Asia Pacific region is currently facing two interconnected crises: climate change and increasing inequality. The Asian Development Bank estimates that 1.75 billion people in Asia live in extreme poverty, lacking basic necessities for a dignified life.
• Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific identifies several existing transformational models that can be replicated across the region, including community forest management in Indonesia, solar cooperatives in South Korea, the legal right to food in Nepal, revolving community funds in Sri Lanka, land rights in PNG, and a cooperative movement in Australia.
• To transform Asia, the report calls on regional governments and institutions to implement ten specific policy measures. Key demands include ending fossil fuel subsidies in favor of community-controlled renewable energy, ensuring universal access to essential public services, holding corporations accountable for environmental and human rights abuses via a proposed UN Treaty, and developing national plans for a 100% renewable energy transformation with no new dirty energy projects.

APA

admin (2015). Transforming Asia: Scaling up the Solutions. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/transforming-asia-scaling-up-the-solutions/

Chicago

admin. Transforming Asia: Scaling up the Solutions. Friends of the Earth International, 2015. https://www.foei.org/transforming-asia-scaling-up-the-solutions/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{admin2015transforming, author = {admin}, title = {{Transforming Asia: Scaling up the Solutions}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2015}, month = sep, url = {https://www.foei.org/transforming-asia-scaling-up-the-solutions/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }