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Disasters triggered by natural hazards threaten long-term sustainability of development in Asia and the Pacific. Countries across the region face significant disaster and climate risks.

The population of the Asia-Pacific region is rapidly ageing. The number of people aged 60 years; or over is projected to increase from 13.6 percent in 2020 to 24.9 percent in 2050. This paper assesses the latest evidence on climate change and population ageing in the Asia-pacific region.

A monthly e-bulletin of activities and assistance from the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme to its member countries.

A negative Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) event is under way. The IOD index has been very close to or exceeded negative IOD thresholds (i.e., at or below -0.4 °C) over the past eight weeks. All climate model outlooks surveyed indicate that negative IOD conditions are likely to continue into late spring (October-November). A negative IOD event is associated with above average winter to spring rainfall for much of Australia.

Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) through the Pacific Resilience Partnership (PRP) awarded a range of youth-led initiatives that build climate change resilience involving 11 groups across the region in March 2022 and supported by the government of Australia. The youth-led efforts and activities contributed to the effective implementation of the Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific (FRDP) covering a wide range of sectors including preserving traditional agricultural practices and so forth....

A monthly e-bulletin of activities and assistance from the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme to its member countries

Our member countries reaffirmed the declaration entitled “Our ocean, our future: call for action”, adopted by the high-level United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14. They also joined the global call for stronger commitment to conserve and sustainably use the ocean, seas and marine resources as well as greater ambition at all levels to improve the health, productivity, sustainable use and resilience of the ocean and its ecosystems.

Information provided gives an indication of predicted total rainfall over the next three months, not how intense the rain may be in any one event, nor how it may vary from month to month.

Million of people around the Asia-Pacific region remain exposed to a higher frequency and intensity of natural hazards from locust swarms and earthquakes to cyclone and other exceptional events.

The Ocean acidification alliance showed up in a big way, doing our part to drive climate action and increase understanding and implementation of UN SDG 14.3, 'to minimize and address ocean acidification'