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… E [email protected] 63. Ms. Annette Wallgren Gender and Environment Officer Asia-Pacific Regional Office …

… proposals through the PRMG to ensure legal, ESS, EIA, gender and environmental monitoring and reporting …

… enabling this work will be a focus on: 1. integration of gender and human rights; 2. integration of traditional …

… needs, multiple backgrounds of lessees and landowners, gender inclusion and use of technology. The framework is made …

… 83 7 GENDER AND SOCIAL INCLUSION ANALYSIS … 84 7.1 The Imperative for Gender and Social Inclusion …

… SDG5, 10: The impacts of climate change are uneven across gender and location, with impacts more strongly felt by …

The Asia and Pacific region is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Unabated warming could significantly undo previous achievements of economic development and improvements of living standards. At the same time, the region has both the economic capacity and weight of influence to change the present fossil-fuel based development pathway and curb global emissions. This report sheds light on the regional implications of the latest projections of changes in climate conditions over Asia and the Pacific. The assessment concludes that, even under the Paris consensus scenario in which global warming is limited to 1.5°C to 2°C above preindustrial levels, some of the land area, ecosystems, and socioeconomic sectors will be significantly affected by climate change impacts, to which policy makers and the investment community need to adapt to. However, under a Business-As-Usual (BAU) scenario, which will cause a global mean temperature rise of over 4°C by the end of this century, the possibilities for adaptation are drastically reduced. Among others, climate change impacts such as the deterioration of the Asian “water towers”, prolonged heat waves, coastal sea-level rise and changes in rainfall patterns could disrupt ecosystem services and lead to severe effects on livelihoods which in turn would affect human health, migration dynamics and the potential for conflicts. This assessment also underlines that, for many areas vital to the region’s economy, research on the effects of climate change is still lacking.

… policies and climate financing and also assesses PFM, gender and social inclusion. It is a very comprehensive … guidelines and the Paris Agreement Rule Book; (iii) Gender, local communities and indigenous peoples platform; …

… highlighted including the important role of understanding gender and cultural issues and differing attitudes to risk. … Government of Fiji noted the response needs to be humane. Gender is pivotal in the response. the stories shared on the …

Growinginterestintraditionalknowledge(TK),particularlyinrelationtothepredictionofweatherorclimate extremes, raises issues concerning the appropriate storage and management of the information collected. The Traditional Knowledge Database (TK Database) for the storage and use of TK associated with weather and climate prediction in the Paci c was designed with the following principles in mind: (1) preservation of the knowledge, maintaining cultural context wherever possible; (2) respect for intellectual property and cultural sensitivities around data sharing and use; (3) appropriate system design, accounting for ongoing costs of system maintenance and often intermittent Internet access; and (4) moving beyond data preservation to ensure continued use and growth of the TK. The TK Database was successfully deployed to four countries in the south Paci c and is regularly used by their national meteorological services, and partner organizations, both to preserve TK related to weather and climate and as a tool to assist in monitoring the TK indicators. As the rst database of its kind, the TK Database lls a critical gap in the appropriate storage and application of TK and provides an important foundation for future developments.