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Youth Climate Action Lab is a 90-minute interactive session bringing together youth climate leaders, practitioners, educators, and decision-makers to exchange ideas, identify barriers to youth climate action, and build meaningful collaborations. Through lightning stories, facilitated discussions, action matchmaking, and collective recommendations, participants will connect across sectors, co-create solutions, and commit to concrete climate action beyond the event. Please click the Register button to complete your registration through the external registration link.

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The session draws on the recent work of the CCICED High-Level Task Force on China's Environment and Development Outlook, which brought together Chinese and international experts to review China's environment and development progress, examine medium- and long-term trends, risks and challenges, and put forward policy recommendations for China's environmental and development strategy and its international cooperation. The session will use the Task Force's thematic report "China and the World: Mutual Engagement in Sustainable Development Processes" as an entry point, while drawing on relevant insights from the other CCICED research. This session is aimed at policymakers, civil society organisations, researchers, practitioners and international organisations engaged with aspects of China's green transition and regional cooperation, particularly from China and Southeast Asia, reflecting the discussion-based format we intend for the session.

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Voices of The Ground is an intimate gathering that brings the lived experiences, knowledge, and leadership of frontline communities into Southeast Asia climate conversation. Across Southeast Asia, people are already living with rising seas, extreme weather, disrupted livelihoods, and changing ecosystems. Yet their voices are too often absent from the spaces where climate decisions are made—leaving climate action at risk of becoming overly technical, top-down, and disconnected from everyday realities. Inspired by MADANI Berkelanjutan’s Ramah Tanah gatherings in Indonesia, Voices of The Ground creates space to sit together, listen deeply, and learn from one another. Through intimate talk circles, an immersive exhibition, and meaningful conversations, participants will encounter stories from frontline communities across Southeast Asia and explore what these experiences can teach us about building more just, inclusive, and grounded climate solutions. Hosted during Bangkok Climate Action Week 2026, this gathering welcomes community leaders, civil-society actors, youth, policymakers, funders, researchers, and climate advocates to move beyond consultation—and recognize communities as knowledge holders, rights holders, and leaders of climate action. Come listen, connect, and imagine a different kind of climate action—one shaped by the people living the crisis every day. When the ground speaks, we listen.

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กรุงเทพฯ จะเป็นอย่างไร หากถนนและพื้นที่สาธารณะของเราเปิดโอกาสให้ผู้คนมีทางเลือกในการเดินทาง เชื่อมต่อ และใช้ชีวิตในเมืองได้มากขึ้น? ขอเชิญร่วมชม When We Cycle สารคดีจากประเทศเนเธอร์แลนด์ที่ชวนสำรวจอนาคตของการปั่นจักรยาน การเดินทาง และชีวิตในเมือง พร้อมชวนมองไปไกลกว่าเรื่อง “จักรยาน” ว่าเราเดินทางในเมืองอย่างไร ใช้พื้นที่สาธารณะร่วมกันอย่างไร และทางเลือกในการเดินทางจะช่วยสร้างเมืองที่น่าอยู่ เป็นมิตรกับผู้คน และรับมือกับการเปลี่ยนแปลงสภาพภูมิอากาศได้อย่างไร หลังจบภาพยนตร์ ชวนต่อบทสนทนากลับมาที่กรุงเทพฯ กับวงเสวนาภาษาไทย “กรุงเทพฯ: ชวนคิดใหม่เรื่องถนน พื้นที่สาธารณะ และชีวิตคนเมือง” ผ่านมุมมองจากภาครัฐ นักพัฒนาเมือง ชุมชนจักรยาน สื่อ และภาคเอกชน ไม่ว่าคุณจะปั่นจักรยานทุกวัน ปั่นเป็นครั้งคราว หรือไม่ได้ปั่นเลย บทสนทนานี้คือเรื่องของเมืองที่เราทุกคนใช้ร่วมกัน กำหนดการ 18.00 น. กล่าวต้อนรับและเปิดงาน 18.15 น. วิสัยทัศน์กรุงเทพฯ สู่เมืองที่เดินได้และปั่นได้มากขึ้น 18.30 น. ฉายสารคดี When We Cycle (ภาษาอังกฤษ พร้อมคำบรรยายภาษาไทย) 19.40 น. วงเสวนา “กรุงเทพฯ: ชวนคิดใหม่เรื่องถนน พื้นที่สาธารณะ และชีวิตคนเมือง” (ภาษาไทย) 20.15 น. Q&A และบทส่งท้าย 20.30 น. จบกิจกรรม

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​Indonesia is accelerating its low-carbon mobility transition, with a target of 90% electrification of mass urban public transport by 2030. However, electric bus deployment and charging infrastructure remain at an early stage, highlighting the need for scalable financing and delivery models. ​Convened by ITDP Indonesia and MSC (MicroSave Consulting), supported by ViriyaENB and ICSC (Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities), during Bangkok Climate Action Week 2026, this interactive panel will explore how climate finance, private investment, and innovative business models can accelerate sustainable mobility in Indonesia. ​The discussion will focus on three key questions: ​Mobilizing climate finance: How can blended finance, concessional capital, leasing, and PPPs support electric buses and charging infrastructure? ​Scaling implementation: What lessons from Indonesia can help accelerate electric bus deployment and close charging infrastructure gaps? ​Enabling inclusive participation: How can policy and asset-light models attract private investment while creating opportunities for MSMEs, including women-led enterprises? ​The session will bring together policymakers, financiers, development partners, mobility experts, private-sector actors, researchers, and community representatives to identify practical pathways for scaling sustainable mobility across Indonesia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. ​📅 Date: Wednesday, 7 October 2026 🕝 Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Bangkok time (GMT+7)

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The South-South Exchange Lab builds on the movement catalyzed by the South-South Declaration on Sociobioeconomy launched around COP30, which positioned sociobioeconomy and nature-based economy as a Global South climate solution. This peer-learning session will bring together actors from Asia, Latin America, Africa, and other tropical regions to compare lessons on community-led enterprises, responsible value chains, policy, finance, markets, and safeguards. Through facilitated dialogue, participants will identify shared challenges and collaboration pathways.

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Join us for a free screening of selected, award-winning short documentaries on how people and communities adapt to extreme heat and safeguard health. The event is free, with a reception, but requires you to register on the French Alliance website here: https://afthailande.org/en/cultural-events/details/?eventId=2425#/ The evening will be opened by Dr Ailan Li, WHO Representative to Thailand, as well as Ms Mathilde Teruya, Deputy Head of Mission of the French Embassy of Thailand. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with experts on heat, health and climate, and all participants are invited to a reception following the discussion. The screening is followed by an engaging Q&A with the audience, featuring the following panelist experts: Sushma Bhusal Regional Thematic Lead for Health and Care, Asia Pacific Regional Office, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Serge Morand, Research Director, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Jason Lee, Professor, Thermal Physiologist and Heat Resilience Expert National University of Singapore; Global Heat Health Information Network Southeast Asia Hub Chair As temperatures rise and heat records are broken across the world, it is the most vulnerable communities who feel the impacts first and hardest. Short films help raise awareness and share solutions between people and communities around the planet, encouraging the behavioural change and decisions needed to keep people safe and cool. Join us at Alliance Française for this free screening, brought to you by the Global Heat Forum, the #Film4Health Global Movement and Bangkok Climate Action Week, together with Alliance Française, the French Embassy in Thailand, the Global Heat Health Information Network, the World Health Organization and Wellcome. Films run approximately 45 minutes, in English with English subtitles. The Q&A will be held in English.

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Rice is the staple food of Asia and provides the basis of rural livelihoods for more than 140 million smallholder farming households. Rice cultivation is also one of the region's largest sources of agricultural methane, and the crop is highly exposed to drought, flooding and extreme weather events. In Thailand and across Asia, rice is more than an agricultural commodity: it is at the centre of rural identity and deeply rooted in religious traditions, festivals and everyday food culture. While rice is critical for Asia’s food security, climate change is threatening yields through rising temperatures and increased weather volatility. A super El Nino phenomenon is currently occurring and expected to affect rice growing areas in Southeast Asia in the coming months. Smallholders in Viet Nam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia and India are particularly vulnerable. Singapore depends on rice imports, in particular from Thailand, Viet Nam and India, and Africa imports roughly a third of its rice consumption from South and Southeast Asia. Climate-smart practices such as alternate wetting and drying, improved nutrient management, straw and stubble management and direct seeding can reduce emissions and increase the resilience and adaptive capacity of smallholders while strengthening their livelihoods. Rice Day brings this multi-faceted topic to Bangkok Climate Action Week 2026. The event brings together philanthropy, government, research institutions, farmer representatives, development agencies and the private sector to discuss how the rice sector can move from individual projects to a coordinated and well-financed transformation. The day is anchored by an emerging collaborative of philanthropic funders.

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How do movements shift the money? Across Asia, communities and campaigners are challenging the banks, investors and financial institutions financing fossil fuel expansion. But shifting finance across borders requires more than evidence - it requires organising, strategy, relationships and the ability to connect frontline experience with decision-makers and leverage points across the region. Building Transnational Finance Power in Asia brings together campaigners and movement leaders to share practical stories of how this is being done - from community resistance and shareholder action to campaigns targeting banks, cross-border finance and transition-mineral supply chains. We’ll explore how evidence and community voices can travel from the places experiencing harm to the financial institutions and companies with the power to act - and what infrastructure, collaboration and movement capacity are needed to make that happen. Speakers Will van de Pol - CEO, Market Forces Ayumi Fukakusa - Executive Director & Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Japan Nabilla Gunawan - Finance & Energy Transition Campaigner Natasha Tariq - Asia Director, Campaign Strategy, Accountability Accelerator Didit Wicaksono - Country Lead - Indonesia, AktivAsia Alex Ryan - Managing Director, AktivAsia This is not another climate finance panel. Expect campaign stories, practical learning, audience discussion and an opportunity to connect with others working to build greater finance campaigning power across Asia. We’ll also introduce PowerShift Asia - AktivAsia and Market Forces’ new regional finance campaigning program, bringing campaigners from across Asia together to build the skills, strategy and cross-border power to shift finance. 10:00-11:30 Symposium and interactive discussion 11:30-12:00 Networking and refreshments

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Leadership doesn't come with a map for climate justice work but it surely drives our pathway. Any form of dedicated work on Climate Justice unfolds in systems full of uncertainty at all times. In moving through this space, actors encounter multiple stakeholders, competing perspectives, interdependence and continuous change - all the conditions that make the challenge itself a moving target rather than a fixed problem to be solved at once. This session invites participants to examine how they can lead within this complexity: navigating different perspectives, building relationships, responding to emerging challenges and moving from strategic intent towards collective action. Join Sath-CSIDC for an interactive workshop which combines short knowledge-building inputs with creative and participatory exercises that allow participants to explore these ideas through their own experiences. Rather than treating leadership as a fixed set of skills, the session will be creating a space to reflect, experiment and consider how adaptive and relational leadership can help us respond more proactively to the changing realities of climate justice work. Please register via the QR code! it will take even less than 2 minutes! Who is this for: Organizers, Researchers, JET Professionals, Energy Experts, Funders, Policy Experts, Justice-oriented Social Organizations, Regional and International Development Organizations For any queries: nida@csidc.org

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As Thailand moves towards its climate and Net Zero ambitions, transforming carbon-intensive industries will be essential to building a more sustainable and competitive economy. This online session will explore the role of green steel in Thailand’s industrial transition, looking at how innovation, technology, commercially viable business models and credible sustainability strategies can help accelerate the decarbonization of the steel value chain. Drawing on perspectives from across the green steel ecosystem, the discussion will examine both the opportunities and challenges involved in reducing industrial emissions, from understanding the fundamentals of green steel and its evolving value chain to addressing carbon footprints and embedding sustainability into business and investment decisions. The session will also consider the broader role of Thailand’s manufacturing sectors—including steel, automotive and construction—in supporting the country’s transition towards Net Zero, and the collaboration needed across industry, government and the wider ecosystem to turn climate ambition into practical action.

[Nature-based Economy Pavilion] Signals of the Future: Movie Screening

[Nature-based Economy Pavilion] Why do nature-based solutions need a business engine, not just a program budget

Nature Positive Cities: Scaling Urban Nature-based Solutions and Nature Positive Renewables for Climate Resilience and Biodiversity

Themed “Nature Positive Cities: Scaling Urban Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Nature Positive Renewables for Climate Resilience and Biodiversity”, the event seeks to share experiences and showcase innovative approaches for scaling urban NbS and accelerating nature positive renewable energy pathways that support climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem integrity, social equity, and community well-being. It aims to foster multi-stakeholder dialogue by convening senior government officials, business leaders, policymakers, practitioners, financiers, and community representatives.

[NBE Pavilion] From Nature to Shared Prosperity : A South-South Exchange Learning on Nature-Based Economy for Climate Resilience

Nature-based and bioeconomy approaches are emerging across different regions of the Global South, shaped by local ecosystems, communities, markets, policies, and development priorities. While the contexts differ, many actors face similar questions around how to create economic value from natural resources while maintaining ecological integrity and ensuring benefits reach communities. Indonesia's emerging bioeconomy agenda provides one perspective within this broader conversation, linking natural resources, innovation, value chains, livelihoods, and economic development. Experiences from other countries can offer complementary lessons on how these approaches are being developed, governed, financed, and connected to markets. This session creates a space for practitioners, policymakers, businesses, community leaders, investors, and ecosystem actors from Indonesia and other Global South regions to exchange practical experiences, including lessons from approaches that have worked, challenges encountered along the way, and opportunities for collaboration.

Predict, Protect, Pay: AI and Digital Health for Climate-Resilient Health Systems

Climate change is a health emergency, and Thailand is on the front line. Dengue, extreme heat, and PM2.5 haze fall hardest on the elderly, migrants, informal workers, and last-mile communities. At the same time, Thailand holds unusual strengths: universal health coverage, more than a million village health volunteers, and dense surveillance and sensor infrastructure. This session asks a simple question with large consequences. If AI can forecast a dengue outbreak or a heatwave two weeks out, why does money still move only after people are sick? Over the afternoon we will explore how digital tools and AI can strengthen both sides of the climate and health response: early warning and anticipatory action on the adaptation side, and emissions tracking for health systems on the mitigation side. Discussion will look at what it takes in policy, data governance, and capital to move promising designs from pilot to scale, drawing on Thai experience alongside examples from other countries. The programme will bring together voices from government, WHO, climate and health financiers, and digital health innovators. Expect a framing conversation, a panel, a short showcase of work underway in the region, and time for open exchange and networking. Equity runs through it: we will ask directly whether AI narrows or widens the gap for the communities most exposed. The session is convened by TechChange, organiser of the Global Digital Health Forum, which comes to Bangkok in December 2026 in partnership with Thailand's Ministry of Public Health.

Redefining Corporate Engagement: Integrated, Rights-Centered Action for People, Climate and Nature

Across Asia, climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation are creating interconnected risks for people, ecosystems and businesses. Yet corporate strategies often address these issues separately, while affected communities remain insufficiently involved in shaping the decisions that influence their rights, livelihoods and environments. This session will bring together communities, businesses, financial institutions, civil society, international organisations and philanthropy to explore how corporate action can move beyond fragmented commitments towards more integrated, rights-centred approaches across operations and value chains. Through community-grounded dialogue and facilitated roundtables, participants will examine whose knowledge informs corporate assessments, where corporate reporting and mitigation plans diverge from lived experience, and how stronger accountability and meaningful stakeholder engagement can lead to better decisions. The session will identify practical opportunities to advance corporate action that respects human rights, protects climate and nature, and strengthens long-term business and community resilience.

Religions for Climate Action

Religions for Climate Action brought together religious leaders, young people, and environmental practitioners to explore how faith communities can address the climate crisis beyond emergency relief. While providing food, shelter, and emotional support remains essential during disasters, the event examined how religious teachings and community networks can also encourage lasting changes in attitudes, everyday practices, and collective action. Through interfaith dialogue and practical workshops, participants explored opportunities for temples, churches, mosques, and other places of worship to support climate action. These included reducing waste at religious gatherings, discouraging burning, conserving energy, advocating for clean air, and ensuring equitable support for people affected by environmental harm. The discussions also considered how shared values across different faiths can strengthen responsibility towards both people and nature. The event provided a space for participants from diverse backgrounds to exchange perspectives and develop practical ideas for their communities. No religious leadership role or technical expertise was required. At its heart was a shared understanding: although beliefs may differ, everyone depends on clean air and a healthy environment. By connecting faith with practical action, the programme sought to strengthen the role of religious communities in responding to the climate crisis.

Rice in a Warming World: Climate Change and the Shared Brewing Heritage of Japan and Thailand — Sake and Sato

Join us to explore how Japan's Sake and Thailand's Sato are facing and overcoming climate change challenges together! At our event, you will experience an exclusive reception-style dialogue and guided tasting exploring how climate change is reshaping two iconic rice-based traditions, and how lovers of Sake and Sato can be part of the climate solution. Rice is the cultural and culinary heartbeat of both Japan and Thailand. It is also the sole soul of two ancient fermented traditions: Japanese Sake and Thai Sato. However, unpredictable monsoons, rising temperatures, and shifting seasons are placing immense pressure on rice harvests, water purity, and delicate fermentation processes in both nations. This event isn't just a panel—it’s an immersive tasting and working dialogue. You will: 🍶Taste with Purpose: Experience a guided tasting pairing sustainable Japanese Sake alongside contemporary Thai Sato, connecting every pour to the climate realities behind it. 👂Hear Direct Producer Stories: Discover how visionary brewers—like Fukushima’s Niida Honke and Thailand's ALLURE (who upcycles fragmented jasmine rice into premium Sato)—are using regenerative farming and circular brewing to fight back against climate change. 🗣️Join the Conversation: Participate in intimate, table-based discussions to explore how our everyday choices as consumers can help save regional food and beverage heritage. 🇹🇭🇯🇵 Celebrate Shared History: Help us kick off early celebrations leading into the 140th Anniversary of Japan–Thailand Diplomatic Relations (2027) through a shared commitment to a climate-resilient future.

The Politics of Rice: Redirecting Agricultural Support for Southeast Asia's New Climate and Economy

Every day, governments around the world spend more than $2 billion on agricultural subsidies, roughly 1% of global GDP. In Southeast Asia, rice sits at the heart of these expenditures: a crop with profound political significance, embedded in national food sovereignty narratives, and backed by some of the most entrenched subsidy systems in the world. The region produces around a quarter of the world's rice supply, and the climate cost of that production is substantial (Project Drawdown, 2025). Rice cultivation generates nearly 300 million tons of CO2-equivalent emissions in Southeast Asia annually, contributing to a global picture in which rice accounts for approximately 9% of all anthropogenic methane and 10% of cropland nitrous oxide emissions (Wang et al., 2020). Global methane from rice production stands at 0.8 to 1.0 Gt CO2-equivalent per year and is growing (Jackson et al., 2024; Nabuurs et al., 2022). Conventional input subsidy regimes actively reinforce this trajectory, incentivizing practices that sustain emissions, degrade soils, and entrench farmer dependency on inputs. Yet for all this public spending, smallholder rice farmers capture only a fraction of the value. The bulk accrues to millers, input suppliers, and trading enterprises, actors with the political leverage to shape policy in their favour and strong incentives to resist change. The case for repurposing this public support is not contested. Redirecting it toward climate-smart practices, farmers' livelihoods, and sustainable food systems is increasingly well-evidenced. For example, repurposed subsidies could catalyze farmer uptake of proven emissions-reduction practices, from alternate wetting and drying techniques to improved seed varieties and precision nutrient management, innovations that exist but currently lack the financial incentives to scale. What is missing is not better policy design, nor the technologies themselves. What is missing is a clear understanding of the political and narrative conditions that make reform viable, and a regional coalition prepared to act on it. The High-Level Panel for a Just Rural Transition, convened by Clim-Eat under the Voices for Just Rural Transitions initiative and chaired by former President of Costa Rica H.E. Carlos Alvarado Quesada, has been developing precisely that understanding. Its work examines how actors, institutions, and narratives interact to block or enable reform, and what coalitions and strategies can shift that balance. This event brings the Panel's work into the room at a critical moment: one week before the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok, and with COP31 in Turkey on the horizon. The purpose is not to broadcast a finished message but to co-develop and stress-test different messages. Therefore, the event will be hosted under Chatham House Rule, to facilitate a trusted and open environment. The event is part of the Bangkok Climate Action Week Food Systems Cluster, with the theme: Food systems that work for all - people, nature, culture, and future”. The 7th of October is the dedicated day for a range of events around rice, all taking place at the ASAI Bangkok Chinatown (531 Charoen Krung Road, Bangkok, TH 10100).