2025
Leveraging Climate Finance to Drive Innovation, Equity, and Resilience in Pakistan
An Interview with Ms. Nadia Rehman, Member (Food Security & Climate Change), Planning Commission Ms. Nadia Rehman Member (Food Security & Climate Change) Planning Commission, Pakistan1. From a government perspective, how do you see the role of climate finance in accelerating innovations for climate resilience in our communities? Climate finance plays a critical role in [...] Read More
Digital Innovation in Early Warning Systems – Building Climate Resilience in Bangladesh
A community member showing the app Bangladesh, one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world, faces frequent and extreme weather events such as floods, cyclones, heatwaves, and heavy rainfall. While early warning systems (EWS) have advanced, critical gaps remain in reaching underserved last mile communities and ensuring actionable responses to disasters. According to the [...] Read More
Innovation for Climate Adaptation and Resilience in South Asia
From pexels.com The World Bank-supported Climate Adaptation and Resilience for South Asia (CARE) project, implemented by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), has been empowering decision-makers with tools, products, and services to act locally on climate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture, water, and transportation. As part of its CARE initiative, ADPC launched interventions to create an [...] Read More
Enhancing Critical Infrastructure and Risk Management Capacity in Nepal
Ms. Silwal shows the landslide that occurred near her home and disrupted traffic movement for two days. Photo by ADPC. According to the World Bank, Nepal’s road and power (electricity) infrastructure quality is ranked among the lowest in Asia. Every year, monsoon floods and landslides wreak havoc on the nation’s critical infrastructure, affecting millions of [...] Read More
The Hard Truth About Climate Innovation: Lessons from the Ground
Photo credit: Pexels.com Innovation is the ability to conceive, develop and deliver new products and services that people want to use. It’s an idea that is embodied in a product or service. In the case of the Virtual Irrigation Academy (VIA), the first innovative step was to create monitoring tools that fit the mental model [...] Read More
Innovative Mobile Flood Barriers Transform Pakistan’s Climate Resilience Through International Partnership
Photo credit: wavesave.com Pakistan's unprecedented 2022 floods revealed critical gaps in traditional disaster response capabilities, prompting the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) to seek revolutionary flood management solutions through their Climate Innovation Challenge (CIC). This strategic initiative brought together the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH), Dutch flood control specialist WaveSave, and the data analytics firm [...] Read More
Innovation for Building Climate Resilience in Asia
Photo credit: Pexels.com South Asia and South East Asia are among the most vulnerable regions to climate shocks. The region is living through a “new climate normal” in which intensifying heat waves, cyclones, droughts, and floods are testing the adaptation limits of government, businesses, and citizens. The changing climate could sharply diminish living conditions for [...] Read More