The meeting of the Asia-Pacific Business Forum 2009/Climate Game Change – Innovations and Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation convened in Bangkok, Thailand, on 21 January 2009.

The Forum was organized by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). The meeting sought to promote new partnerships, ideas and resolve for combating climate change. The Asia-Pacific business sector is expected to face serious risks as a result of climate change, with South and Southeast Asia considered to be climate change “hotspots,” at particular risk from cyclones, flooding, and drought. The outcome of the Forum includes an urgent call for businesses and governments in Asia and the Pacific region to make climate change adaptation central to their core operations. The outcome will be fed into preparations for the UN Climate Change Conference, due to take place in Copenhagen in December this year.
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Press release, 22 January 2009