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Welcome to the ACCCRN Blog at COP17!

Who’s ACCCRN?

The Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) is a network of (currently) 10 cities in India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam that are experimenting with a range of actions to improve their ability to withstand, prepare for, and to recover from current and future impacts of climate change. Since the start of the initiative in 2008, the cities have been working to understand the current and new risks and vulnerabilities they face as a result of climate change and rapid urbanisation through a range of assessments and targeted studies. Through these assessments and development of comprehensive City Resilience Strategies, the cities identify and prioritise specific actions and investments aimed at building Urban Climate Change Resilience (UCCR) of their cities. In this process, multi stakeholders from across sectors (local governments, NGOs, academics, communities, private) are involved.

ACCCRN is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. The network aims to catalyze attention, funding, and action on building climate change resilience for poor and vulnerable people in cities in developing countries.

ACCCRN at COP17 - issues we’re blogging about

A number of ACCCRN partners are at COP17 to share lessons and experience in urban climate resilience planning and implementation from the 10 Asian cities. They will be presenting at side events, notably at the Durban Local Government Convention ‘Adapting to a changing climate – towards COP17/CMP7 and beyond’  and Development and climate days. 

Some of us will be sharing what we hear at COP17 through is blog. Some of the topics we hope to cover whilst we’re here include:

Role of local governments in addressing climate adaptation challenge

Role of local governments in global advocacy

Sharing of lessons and experience in climate change adaptation efforts between Asia and Africa

Accessing the Adaptation Fund for the ACCCRN cities

The role of the private sector

Communicating climate risks

Bloggers at COP

Kai Kim is a Senior Staff Scientist (Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction) working primarily on ACCCRN and the USAID funded Mekong - Building Resilience to Climate Change in Asian Cities (M-BRACE) program since November 2010.

Fern is a Program Associate at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Asia Office. She has been working on ACCCRN for the last two and a half years, focusing particularly on the Thailand part of the program.

Posted by Kai Kim & Fern

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