Recognizing the need for upstream technical and policy support, ADB is launching its Just Transition Support Platform, a multi-sector technical assistance platform, to build capacity of its member countries to strategically plan, implement, and finance a just transition.

The Community Resilience Partnership Program aims to scale up investments in climate adaptation that address the nexus of climate, poverty and gender. The Program has established a gender window, the aim of which is to go beyond mainstreaming gender considerations in adaptation projects and to promote women-centered adaptation investments. Such investments recognize women’s role as “agents of change” in driving resilience.

ADB is developing a new methodology and a tool that aims to facilitate the quantitative assessment and reporting of the Sustainable Development (SD) impacts of climate action and their interlinkages with SDGs. This methodology will be operationalized through an Excel-based tool to ensure convenience, correctness, and consistency in the implementation of the methodology. The tool has been developed to benefit a broad range of stakeholders in conducting SD impact assessments of climate action, including both climate mitigation and adaptation.

This session was the first of three technical sessions to explore risk knowledge in the Pacific in more detail. Government departments and regional experts summarized the current availability of risk information in the Pacific. They presented examples of how risk insights have been generated via risk assessments and what skills are needed and highlighted ongoing/near-future projects expected to add to current knowledge.

This session highlighted previous event knowledge of what risk information is available in the region, and look at how those insights are applied in practice – in planning upstream development and related multi-sectoral budgeting, adaptation planning, recovery planning, and investment in resilient infrastructure and systems.

This session discussed a better-shared understanding of the value of collaborating to develop risk information to improve the relevance of insights being developed by learning from local expert perspectives. This understanding covered the importance of in-country experts engaging and inclusion of perspectives from local communities and civil society groups, on hazards, assets, and vulnerability in risk assessment projects to improve the relevance and impact of risk information for decision-making.

This presentation gives an overview of nature-based solutions and how it helps in natural river management referencing "Guidelines for Mainstreaming Natural River Management in Water Sector Investments".

This presentation gives an overview of why Nature-based Solutions are becoming popular and why it's important in natural river management.

This presentation gives an overview of the Climate Risk Screening Tool’s/Procedure in Pakistan.

This presentation gives an overview of ADB's priority sector for adaptation and the rational for Upstream Climate Assessments.