ACCCRN Partners at the Asia-Pacific Housing Forum
The Rockefeller Foundation's ACCCRN partners spoke at the Asia-Pacific Housing Forum in Bangkok, sharing their experience and practice. This event was an opportunity to showcase the newly launched ACCCRN website.
About ACCCRN
In the coming years, urban areas will increasingly play a major role in any climate change-related strategy, most especially because cities are where the interplay of climate risk and poverty lead to the direst consequences.
The reason is simple. More people live in cities than ever before, and within a decade, more than 500 cities will have populations exceeding one million, and seven cities in developing countries will have more than 20 million inhabitants.The funding in Asian urban areas is currently focused in four countries: Thailand, Vietnam, India, and Indonesia.
The Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network aims to catalyze attention, funding, and action on building climate change resilience for poor and vulnerable people by creating robust models and methodologies for assessing and addressing risk through active engagement and analysis of various cities.
…communities around the world need better weapons - new tools, techniques, and strategies - if they hope to tame the three-headed hydra of climate risk, poverty, and precipitous urbanization....Since it may be too late to stop the global warming that’s already occurred, we also must figure out how to survive it....there is far less attention paid to adaptation, what needs to be done to help people and environments cope with what’s already occurred and with what’s coming.
-Judith Rodin, President, The Rockefeller Foundation
