The Working Group Meeting on drafting Think Piece (Vision Paper) and Agreement for Strengthening the Malé Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and its Likely Transboundary Effect for South Asia (MD WG2022) was organised on 23 June 2022 on an online platform. The objective of the MD WG2022 was to discuss and brainstorm the vision of the Malé Declaration and review the draft of the Think Piece (Vision Paper) and the dr... Read more..
RRC.AP supported the EANET Secretariat in organising an awareness workshop on the “State of Acid Deposition in East Asia – From Data to Policy” on 20 June 2022 on an Online Platform. The objectives of the workshop were to increase public understanding on acid deposition issues, to share EANET achievements in the last 20 years, and to explore further generate collaboration ideas for future EANET Projects based on the PRSAD4 (4th Perio... Read more..
Following the AIT RRC.AP's responsibility in the region to assist climate change capacity building and research, as well as the development of appropriate adaptation plans and strategies, two days of virtual training on the S8 Downscaling tool, was held to help participants understand and manage the development of climate scenarios for their regions, particularly for those officials involved in the National Adaptation Planning ... Read more..
The virtual training on building cities’ resilience to climate and disaster risks was jointly organised by AIT-RRC.AP in consortium with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI), the World Vision International (WV), and the Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Co... Read more..
The World Environment Day 2022 was celebrated at Asian Institute of Technology, Pathum Thani, Thailand on 2 June 2022. With its campaign, #OnlyOneEarth, this year’s World Environment Day focuses on 3 major themes: Climate, Nature, and Chemicals & Pollution. It calls for collective, transformative action on a global scale to celebrate, protect and resto... Read more..
The AIT-RRC.AP spearheaded the Virtual Kick-off cum Consultation for the ERIA project on development and dissemination of technical guidelines for plastics and resin pellets leakage prevention from factories and informal recycling sector in the ASEAN was convened on May 6, 2022. About 22 participants from relevant local city stakeholders/partners including City Government Officers (from Manila, Vientiane, and Pattaya City), associati... Read more..
The Third Global Waste Management Conference was held on 29-30 March 2022 in a virtual format with the theme “Advancing Towards Zero-Waste Cities “. The Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT) and Confexhub Group of Malaysia organized the conference. Participants were from policymakers, international experts, and global industry practitioners to strategize, chart directions and craft-out new blue... Read more..
During 1st quarter of 2022, the AIT-RRC.AP has collaborated with the Bhutan office of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to organize Virtual Training for Bhutanese climate action planning practitioners (National Designated Authority, staff of Direct Access Entities, Civil Society, and domestic consultancies) while piloting the recently developed eLearning course on Developing Concept Notes for the GCF Simplified Approva... Read more..
The post-YEA mentoring series was designed to steer the first stages towards developing and implementing the ideas of the Pico-Streamers team that leveraged their award of EUR 1000 during the YEA 2021, as sponsored by the Regional Programme Energy Security and Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS-RECAP). The mentoring series comprised of four sessions, each of 60 – 90 minutes convened once a week... Read more..
The Sixteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Meeting of the Malé Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and its Likely Transboundary Effect for South Asia (MD/IG16) was organized virtually on 12 January 2022. About 40 participants representing the National Focal Points (NFPs) and the National Implementing Agencies (NIAs) of the Malé Declaration member countries, namely, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Nep... Read more..
The training on climate change downscaling using the S8 downscaler tool was convened by RRCAP in collaboration with Highland Research and Development Institute (HRDI) in Chiang Mai, Thailand from 8-9 December 2021. HRDI is a public-funded organisation, based in Chiangmai, mandated in promoting food security, poverty alleviation, and ecosystem health in mountain regions, currently covering 1,066 communities in 20 provinces of... Read more..
The Waste and Resource Management Cluster of AIT RRC.AP, together with the United Nations Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok (UNEP ROAP), UNIDO, IDEA Consultants Inc, Japan and conducted a 3-day virtual online training on Laboratory management for mercury survey and monitoring. The training is a part of the slated activities under the ongoing project “Promoting Minamata Convention on Mercury by making the most of Japan’s k... Read more..
The EANET 20th Anniversary celebration and the EANET Science and Policy Dialogue were organised back-to-back on 26 November 2021. The virtual event gathered over one hundred participants from 30 countries to discuss better air quality for all. The EANET’s 20th Anniversary celebration was organised to commemorate the significant milestones of the Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia (EANET) in its twenty years o... Read more..
The Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific in partnership with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities – Network (EPIC-N), and the World Vision International organised a Webinar on “Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030): Engaging Academia and Faith Actors to Strengthen Cities Resili... Read more..
The Twenty-third Session of the Intergovernmental Meeting on the Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia (IG23) was convened virtually from 24 to 25 November 2021 to make important decisions on the expansion of the scope of the EANET, among other topics. The event gathered over 70 representatives of the EANET participating countries, namely, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philip... Read more..
The Twenty-first Session of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia (SAC21) was organised virtually from 26-28 October 2021, to discuss scientific and technical matters related to the EANET activities. Over 60 members of the Scientific Advisory Committee and/or their representatives from the Participating Countries of the EANET joined the meeting. The Draft EANET Data Report 2020 was a... Read more..
After the success of two previous editions of the Youth Energy Academy (YEA), the AIT Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific (AIT RRC.AP) organized a third YEA in collaboration with the Sustainable Energy Youth Network (SEYN); Yunus Center AIT and Yunus Thailand; AIT Department of Energy, Environment, and Climate Change; and other partners. Thanks to the support from Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s Regional Programme for Energy ... Read more..
The ASEAN Dissemination Workshop on the Substitution and the ESM of Mercury-containing Medical Measuring Devices was convened on 28 September 2021 by the Waste and Resource Management Cluster of RRC.AP. The workshop was a wrap up project activity of the Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF) project titled “Development of Capacity for the Substitution and the Environmentally Sound Management (ESM) of Mercury-containing Medical Measuring... Read more..
A virtual training workshop on the “Capacity Development Programme on Air Quality Management and Emission Reduction of PM2.5 for Asian Countries” was organised on 13-17 September 2021 by the Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RRC.AP). The workshop was aimed to build the capacities of the Asian countries for better management of air quality and to enhance the technical capabilities of the Asian countries to support the... Read more..
A webinar on “Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation: from Concept to Implementation” was organised by RRC.AP to help identify opportunities for NbS in adaptation to climate change, particularly, having a common understanding and interpretation of NbS concepts and take advantage of existing traditional ecological knowledge in NbS application. It will provide experiences, and emerging priorities of key donors and imp... Read more..
