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The 3rd Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum was organised by the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN), a collaboration between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES); the Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RRC.AP); and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).

The Forum was hosted by the Korea Environment Institute (KEI) in association with the Korea Adaptation Center for Climate Change (KACCC). The Forum was also supported by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ); the Ministry of Environment, Korea; Asian Development Bank (ADB); Incheon Metropolitan City; and Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). Forum collaborators include the South East Asia Climate Change Network (SEAN-CC), the USAID ADAPT Asia-Pacific project, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

The Forum brought together over 550 policy-makers, scientists, donors, international organisations, regional intergovernmental bodies, youth, media, researchers, NGOs and other representatives from countries in the Asia-Pacific and beyond.

The Forum was structured around the main theme – “Mainstreaming Adaptation into Development” – and four selected topics:

1. Adaptation strategies: What strategies governments, organisations and communities are adopting to deal with a variable and changing climate? Are they likely to be successful? Are they sufficient?
2. Critical and neglected groups: What are governments, organisations and communities doing to better engage critical, but neglected, actors in adaptation plans and actions?
3. Adaptation in sectors and systems: How are stakeholders in different sectors and systems adapting to a changing climate? What actions have they taken?
4. Knowledge management for adaptation: How can better use be made of existing knowledge to support adaptation efforts? How can learning from success and failure become more systematic?

The Forum was designed with various activities, such as plenary and keynote sessions, panel discussions, side events, including marketplace to provide networking opportunities.