A RACE WE CAN WIN

This outcome document summarizes a day of discussions held on September 3, 2019, in Bangkok, Thailand, convened by the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP). The event, titled "Stepping Up Action on Delivering a Resilient Future," aimed to provide stakeholders from Asia and the Pacific with a platform to share resilience-building strategies and raise the need for urgent action ahead of the UN Secretary General's Climate Action Summit. The document outlines key messages and recommendations across five thematic sessions focusing on early warning systems, systems thinking, intersectional vulnerability, nature-based solutions, and financial innovation.

• Climate extremes in Asia and the Pacific have caused an average of USD 127 billion in damage and affected 152 million people annually over the last 10 years. In 2018, natural and climate disasters pushed 29 million people into acute food insecurity.
• The international development community is urged to adopt a systems approach to identify complex climate risks and adaptive capacities. Without this approach, adaptation activities may be unsustainable, miss critical enabling conditions, or result in unanticipated negative impacts.
• Effective early warning systems (EWS) require strong horizontal and vertical institutional linkages for communication. To be people-centered and inclusive of marginalized groups, EWS should involve local community engagement and the decentralization of budgets, planning, and decision-making.
• Resilience building requires an intersectional lens to address inequalities related to gender, age, ethnicity, caste, and disability. The document advocates for systematic data collection disaggregated by these factors and the principle of "Nothing about us without us," ensuring affected groups participate directly in policy decisions.
• Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are presented as essential for meeting climate challenges, as healthy ecosystems act as natural buffers. The document notes that conventional structural measures can hinder the better management of ecosystems.
• There is a critical need for financial innovation to scale up resilience, including the use of blended finance structures and instruments such as green bonds, concessional lending, and risk-sharing instruments. Current barriers include a lack of medium- to long-tenor green financing and limited access to funds on demand.

APA

Global Resilience Partnership (2019). A RACE WE CAN WIN. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/stepping-up-actions-to-deliver-a-resilient-future-outcome-document.pdf

Chicago

Global Resilience Partnership. A RACE WE CAN WIN. 2019. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/stepping-up-actions-to-deliver-a-resilient-future-outcome-document.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{globalresiliencepartnership2019race, author = {{Global Resilience Partnership}}, title = {{A RACE WE CAN WIN}}, institution = {Global Resilience Partnership}, year = {2019}, month = sep, url = {https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/stepping-up-actions-to-deliver-a-resilient-future-outcome-document.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }