Overview
Why it matters
- >0%%
of total global emissions are driven by Asia
- ~0globalglobal
climate disasters are experienced by Asia
- 0BillionBillion
people in Asia will be living in areas with lethal heat waves by 2050
Current Actions
Our Strategy
- 1Power: Across the Asia-Pacific region, 325 million people currently live without access to electricity, and hundreds of millions more have unreliable access. The Rockefeller Foundation is focused on scaling access to safe, reliable, and renewable energy in underserved, low-income communities as a critical tool to move out of poverty.
- 2Health: We envision a world in which every community health system is equipped to apply data-driven decisions to predict and prevent disease. Our work in Asia has included building some of the first public health institutions in China and Thailand, supporting improved tracking and response to pandemics along the Mekong River, and helping establish the Prince Mahidol Award Conference as a major forum for high-priority global health issues.
- 3Food: There were 69.1 million acutely food-insecure people across Asia-Pacific region at the end of 2021. An onslaught of extreme weather events continues to aggravate the situation. Through school feeding programmes and regenerative agriculture transitions, we are committed to improve the dietary diversity of food for people in Asia, using levers of data science and innovations, evidence for public policy, and institutional procurement.
Our Regional Work
Stories from the Frontlines
Asia is leading the world’s response to climate change with Ambition, Solutions, Innovation and Action. These stories tell us how.
Recent News
- Dec 03 2023Countries, Companies Signal Support for Energy Transition Accelerator
- Dec 03 2023The Rockefeller Foundation and the Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Institute of Philanthropy Call for Stronger Partnerships To Protect the Health of Vulnerable Populations From Climate Change on Health Day at COP28
- Dec 02 202310+ Countries Join First-of-Its-Kind Consortium To Deploy 5 GW of Battery Energy Storage Systems
Our People