 Good morning and good afternoon. Greetings from Bangkok. Thank you for joining with us for the 10 Asia Pacific Forum on sustainable development site event on strategic partnership for policy impact, multi stakeholder engagement for advancing sustainable development goals in Asia. So as you already seen, and I mentioned from the title, this is the site event for the 10 Asia Pacific Forum. However, this is actually a CI Asia first event, and this event is organized by ACI with the support from UN habitat, Asia Indigenous People Pack and Office of the National Water Resources in Thailand. My name is Kuntum Malati and I'm a research fellow from ACI Asia and I'll be your moderator for today. Today, we are bringing the teams of collaboration and partnership and share how scientific evidence and innovative ideas transform into action. With seven years left to achieve the global goals, we are in a crucial point as only few of the 17 SDGs and their 169 targets are likely to be met. According to the UNSGAP SDG Progress Report that just launched last week in this forum, it shows that in countries with spatial situations, including leaf developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing states, these goals on zero hunger, which is SDG2, clean water, SDG6, decent work and economic growth, SDG8 and sustainable consumption production, SDG12 are regressing. However, there's one goal that constantly backsliding in all of the Asia Pacific countries, which is SDG13 on climate action. SD23 marks a new phase in the pursuit of global sustainable development and as the state of affairs make it clear, as I explained in the beginning, this must be a turning point for all of us. So today, we will discuss some of the key transponder issues on climate change, social inclusion, governance and water management in the region. To share their extensive experience with us in formulating policy, agenda and action, we are honored to have four distinct panelists, which I would like to introduce very briefly. We have Miss Claudia Garcia Zaragoza from UN Habitat. We have Miss Ploy Acha Konvisut, research fellow from SEI Asia. We have Miss Dita Nithaya Erkana, Executive Consul Member from Asia Indigenous People Pack. We have also Mr. Ata Pong Shanta Numit from Office of the National Water Resource Taiwan. So warm welcome to all panelists and thank you for taking the time to join us today. To start this exciting discussion, I would like to invite SEI Asia Center Director Mr. Nile O'Connor to deliver his opening remarks. Nile, please, the screen is yours. Thank you very much and welcome everybody. It's a great pleasure to be here and to welcome you to the 10th Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development, the SEI event, which is aiming to support and review progress on the 2030 agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals. Indeed, as just mentioned, I'd like to also thank our co-organizers and the guests that are here today, Miss Claudia Zaragoza from UN Habitat, Tristan Ace from the AVPN philanthropic network, Miss Dita Nithaya Erkana, Executive Consul Member for the Asia Indigenous People Pack, and Mr. Ata Pong Shanta Numit as Director of Policy and Master Plan Divisions for the Office of National Water Resources Taiwan. And indeed our very own staff, Dr. Ploy Acha Kunusut as a research fellow from SEI Asia, and of course the moderator, Kuntum Malati, also a research fellow for Asia. So thank you all for the great work you put in to support this. For those of you who are not familiar with SEI, the Stockholm Environmental Institute is an independent international research policy team. SEI has been engaged in environmental and development issues at the local, regional and global levels through evidence-based research, capacity building and stakeholder engagement that covers a broad range of topics including climate change, energy transitions, urban development, natural resources and water governance, circularity and gender equality, and we've been doing this now for over three decades. And a key focus of SEI is the science-to-policy partnerships for driving the policy agenda on sustainability. And to do this, SEI bridges the science and policy domains to collaborative processes with a diversity of partners at very different scales in order to provide evidence-based research for policy actions towards environmental sustainability and indeed social equality. So I think some of SEI's success is built on providing credible, high quality science to support the policymakers to make effective decisions for society itself. And towards this end, we promote and strengthen lasting partnerships to build public policy and to design technical solutions together with communities and the key stakeholders, while upholding our core values such as I said, gender equality and human rights for all. So our various partnerships comes in many forms and we're keen to continue to strengthen them and build on them, but working with community stakeholders often affected by the policy issues at hand and at the centre of policy development processes. We work with civil society organisations to ensure greater inclusion and awareness raising. We work more with the private sector who bring technologies and amazing innovation and solutions to the table. The public sector who enact and implements the public policy and indeed academia who help us gather evidence and support a consistent narrative for policy dialogues. And recently, some examples of the work we do from research to policy supported by the governments of Sweden and Australia respectively include the 15 years work we've been doing with the sustainable Mekong Research Network, SummerNet as many may know, and this is driving policy relevant research and policy engagement on water insecurity across the Mekong region. And more recently we've initiated the newly thought through Mekong thought leadership and think tank network, again a high level research and policy engagement consortium of like minded institutes for knowledge production and policy based information sharing across the region. But coming to the SDGs, SEI stands behind the SDGs as they said, and as the world's first effort to bring together all dimensions of sustainable development to reach specific actionable targets across a range of environments and development sectors. However, I've just heard it's quite alarming that the Asian Pacific region remains off track in achieving all of the 17 SDGs by 2030. And as stated in the recent UNS caps SEG progress report, although some progress has been made in reducing poverty on zero hunger and quality education, and then reducing inequalities. The region is still lagging behind or even going in reverse and climate actions on a motor among others. So it's imperative that we recognize the importance of the SDGs and create recovery strategies aligned with the principles of the 2030 agenda. So SDG 17 on partnerships for the goals calls for actions to strengthen the means of SDG implementation and revitalize global partnerships for sustainable development. It recognizes the essential roles of partnerships as a primary way of bringing together the key stakeholders to help achieve these goals. And as the title of this session suggests, increasing the participation of local actors and other key stakeholders in international forms helps increase the exchanges of and the co-production of knowledge and for the effective implementation of the SDGs themselves. It also increases interactions with peers from other countries helping to learn and share ideas. And this integrated approach is essential to developing programs that reach all areas within governments, civil societies and private sector to bring about and support sustainable development. So the SDGs can only be realized with strong inclusivity and multi stakeholder engagements. And this is from the local to global levels, building partnerships and corporations across different sectors in a transdisciplinary manner, ensuring both public and private integration. However, we know that SDG delivery still faces many challenges, and these may result in compromising the inclusivity of beneficiaries that we aim to have represented in the process. And we must avoid this at all costs, otherwise we risk varying away from the principle of universality, integration, and from leaving no one behind, which are the cornerstones of the 2030 agenda. And indeed many questions have been raised about what's the best approach in building successful partnerships, or how do we influence policymakers. And to answer these questions, we need strategic partnerships with greater levels of trust and the transparency to help facilitate more constructive and inclusive dialogues. So hopefully this sustainable development forum side event will help focus on advancing the SDGs through this inclusive multi stakeholder engagement process and through strategic partnerships for policy impacts. We will assist key transboundary issues on climate change and environmental sustainability, alongside gender equality and social inclusion. So I trust that these discussions will lead to some meaningful impacts, as we showcase multi stakeholder engagement processes, and how to contribute to the empowerment of local communities and marginalized groups to the co-creation of knowledge and in formulating effective policy agendas and actions that work from the bottom up. I hope the side event on strategic partnerships for policy impact will serve as a platform where we can translate our discussions into future collaborations and indeed actions. And at this crucial moment in human history, we face some huge environmental and climate change challenges. We need stronger and lasting partnerships that can help us support the urgent transformation needed to ensure an inclusive, resilient and sustainable Asia. I think as everybody says the time to act is now so thank you for joining us today, giving us your inputs and thoughts on this and I look forward to future collaborations together, as well as continue to learn and share knowledge over the course of these days. So I thank you and I look forward to an interesting event ahead. Thank you. Thank you, Niall, for highlighting how important it is to link science partnership inclusive dialogue, as well as bottom up policy approaches that could lead to transformative change. So, we will, without further ado, we will start our panel discussion today and before that I would like to extend the warm welcome to Mr. Tristan is from Asia ventures for land shopping network. I did not mention in the beginning. So yeah, I would like to invite our first panelist Miss Claudia Garcia Saragosa, which is a partner and project manager from UN habitat. Miss Claudia is the partnership and project manager of the SDG locally, localization and local government team of UN habitat. Under urban practices branch sees the focal point on project implementation in Middle East and North Africa countries and Asia Pacific. Claudia holds a bachelor degree on global studies and LLM in European and international law by the University Pompa Fabra in Barcelona. She has specialized in building the capacity dating of local government to fulfill global agenda such as the 2030 agenda and it's SDGs. So Miss Claudia will present on pathways for SDG acceleration and local 2030 coalition. Good morning. Good morning, everyone from Nairobi, Kenya. It is a great pleasure to be part of this panel discussion. Thank you very much for the great work to the to the organizers and to all the organizers that are present here. As Kuntum was advancing, I will focus the presentation on the role of SDG localization, which is the implementation of the sustainable development goals at the local level and the local 2030 initiative. I am not entirely sure what is the familiarity of all of you with this topic so I won't get through them from the very beginning but I will give some background. Before that, I wanted to extend the gratitude from from UN Habitat to the Stockholm Environment Institute for their leading role in the region and in particular for supporting the local 2030 coalition through the baseline baseline assessment for the 10 years. That being said, I'm going to share my screen and as as usual with these processes, I will appreciate if you can confirm that you can see correctly the screen. Yes, we can. Thank you. Fantastic. So this is the title of the of the presentation. And then I will start with control. I'm not entirely sure now that I can pass the slides. I will start with just one quick reflection on the evolution of universal agendas and in particular the one of the sustainable development goals. One of the lessons learned from the millennium development goals was that partnerships are needed and is inclusive with the stakeholder and multiple partnerships is the way forward to achieve the universality of sustainable development goals. So the 2030 agenda stress and highlight by giving one standalone goal to the same to the to the aim of enhancing partnerships for the goals. So how the agenda looks like in a sense is that we have 17 agreed goals that will be needed to advance sustainable development and that are needed to improve humanity as we know it. And while the 16 of these goals are substantial, they tell us where to set the light, shed the light on the problems that need to be tackled on the different objectives that we need to fulfill by 2030. There is one goal that tell us about the how how do we need how do we. What should we do to implement the agenda. How do we need to work all of us the different stakeholders from the local communities to the UN and global organizations to really work shamelessly together as one. And this is SD 17. So this is a really a fact that set the set a new a new way of working of working together from from different organizations, and it is a very important fact that that this agenda recognize that. And in a sense, these reinforce the means of implementation and the global alliance for sustainable development. So I would like to have a quick look to how the details of this SDG SD 17 that talks about partnerships, and this SDG is very complete and complex and it's made up of 19 targets. And 25 indicators that measure the advancement of this target. And these indicators and targets are grouped in five mic macro categories, these five macro categories. And I would like to highlight the means of implementation of not only this this goal on number 17 but also the overall agenda and it goes from finance to technology capacity building trade and then what has been named as systemic issues, the systemic issues and institutional coherence multi stakeholder partnerships and data monitoring and accountability. I am not going to go through all the different targets and indicators in this presentation, but I wanted to highlight some of some of these targets that are also very much linked to to this particular station, such as the, such as target 17.14 that talks about enhancing policy coherence for sustainable development or, or target 17.13 about encouraging effective partnerships that are also other other targets that relate more on the partnerships for financing, for example, or partnerships for sharing of technology and data. This is overall how this SDG looks like and the roadmap that it sets. And now you might be wondering, what is the role of local government of local action and as you localization in all of this. And in this regard, let me, let me start by sharing that local action has never been so central as in recognize at the UN level as it is today. The agenda, the agenda, the 2030 agenda for sustainable development recognizes the role of local governments by by defining a standalone goal on cities and human settlements which is the 11. But also it recognizes the importance of working with of working at the local level and local governments throughout the different targets of the of the agenda. And the relevance of local governments in in universal sustainability is important for different reasons, but I would like to highlight three of them. First of all, because of their privilege for position for partnerships, for partnerships, sorry, given that it is the, the closest governance, government level, the government level close to the to local communities and in its citizens therefore it's the one that has the widest knowledge on on what it's about. There is a mic on so I'm going to stop now. Then because it's as I was mentioning it's it's a government of proximity so it's really a government that can put forward the needs of local communities of marginalized groups in not only in the national policy making, but also in international ones. And the third point is that policy coherence happens at the local level, if we are to eradicate hunger and poverty if we are to achieve gender equality or sustainable consumption, these needs to happen at the local level. However, local governments cannot do it alone, they cannot act alone, and they need the support of different of different levels of government of different partners. And this is what the diagrams of the right in my screen. And in the sense of building partnerships of inclusive governance I would like to highlight just three pillars. The first one is vertical integration, which is the institutional coordination across levels of governments that goes from local level but even to the national level to the regional and the and the international one. Then we have horizontal integration that deals that has to do with the political with police interactions across sectors and domains. And this is a key point for the siloing, which is one of the main challenges that has been sometimes highlighted when talking about implementation of the agenda. And then the third one is the stakeholder engagement is not only about the governments, but it should also be about cross sectoral and multi active partnerships. And again for this, the local level as I was mentioning before it's in a privileged position because they have the umbrella of what it's happening at the local level, and they can enable these partnerships that they can scale up to the national and international levels. These three components that I was mentioning vertical horizontal and stakeholder are considered key for the implementation of the STDs. And this is gathered in a new will have revamped the workstream that you inhabit that is is advancing, which is the one on multi level governance for is the localization. I'm not going to get into the details but in these slides, you have different links and I can also put them in the chat. And recently, we have learned full research on multi level governance for is the localization that it's very much practically oriented on different practices that that have that are considered with practices, but also different domains and conclusions that have been drawn from this from these practices, and then the results for the multi level governance platform in which we share different resources, publications, and events related to to the topic. Besides the point on multi level governance that I have explained, you inhabit that differentiates different component tone of of their work on its localization. So from technical cooperation knowledge development and capacity building global advocacy and partnerships. Being mindful of the time that that we have in that I have for this presentation I'm not going to get into all the details but I would like to share some insights about each of these pillars of work. Starting from the technical cooperation you inhabit that has a comprehensive approach to work on the localization of the sdgs supporting technically local and regional governments, but not only local and regional governance but also national governments and other stakeholders. How do we do this. We do this through the collection of disaggregated data related to the sdgs and organization by using the global monitoring framework, which is the UN wide set of urban indicators that was approved by the UN Statistical Commission, which is the same one that approved indicators for the sdgs. And what this what this framework does is in a way translating the global goals that were that use a national language because as you know the agenda. Is directed towards member states it's translated translated all of these indicators to the needs into the language of of urban settings and local governments. The second component is the participatory baseline assessment through the development of voluntary local reviews. Voluntary local reviews are local reports on the implementation that different local and regional governments are undertaking. And this is inspired by the voluntary national reviews. That memory states submit on a voluntary basis to the high level political forum in July. And here on this point on voluntary local reviews, I want to highlight the point of participatory. If we really want to understand and have a clear picture of what it's happening in a given territory. We need to include different stakeholders we need to include the communities in the marginalized groups to hear their voices and to hear the recommendations for the future that they want. And based on the data collection and the participatory baseline assessment, then we proceed with the implementation through the series initiative, which is a flagship programming you have it that that really looks into the implementation of the of the recommendations that were set forward with the voluntary local review, for example, translating them into local development plans and city development strategies, for example. I wanted to take more time to explain the technical cooperation component but then for the others three I will go a bit more quickly. On the knowledge development and capacity building we think that it's very important to really capacity local and regional governments to fulfill their potential to to advance on the on the agenda, and we do this through in person trainings and online courses and in person trainings I wanted to highlight the is your localization modules that have been developed by UCLG the global passwords for the current general governments you have it at UNDP with the support of the Barcelona. And there are four modules on the different topics that you can see on the screen they think about these modules is that they are very practically oriented and they are translated into trainings of trainings. And then we have wide offer on online courses on the different domains of localization. I have highlighted here three of them. One is the voluntary local reviews online course. Another one relates voluntary local reviews with recovery strategies this is one that is on the making. And that we are that we are preparing to hopefully land rather soon. And then the third one on the implementation of the new run agenda. And then the third component is the one on global advocacy, which we find critical to to really put forward this point on strategic partnerships for policy coherence because we believe that local governments should have more opportunities to be on the on a national but in this case also international and global debates about sustainability because of their critical role. And this point on global advocacy 2023 and 2024 will be key years to discuss the localization to discuss the role of local governments on sustainable development. And here I have highlighted some of these key high level moments. And as the UN Habitat Assembly, UN Habitat Assembly, you should think about it as the general assembly on urbanization, and it takes place every 40 years. And this year in 2023, it will take place again it will be the second, the second assembly. The topic of this assembly is a sustainable urban future through inclusive and effective multilateralism, achieving the SDGs in terms of of crisis. And I wanted to mention in this presentation that the assembly will take place in person and that the application and the submission for site events has been open and will remain open until the 11th of April, in case there is an application for for events. Again, I can share the link in the chat. Sorry, Claudia, just just remind you about the time. Yeah, thank you very much. If you can wrap up. Thank you very much. Fantastic. There will be other events that you can see here and I hope that you can have access to the to the slides, and I would like to wrap up with the point on strategic partnerships which is the core component of our approach on the strategic partnership. A very important milestone is the local 2030 coalition that was revamped on September 2021 during the SDG moment. In this sense, local 2030 coalition is the UN wide initiative for on SDG localization that is shared by UN habitat and another UN agency on a rotational basis every two years. About the coalition mentioned and again, thank the work of this local environment Institute that developed a baseline is a baseline study on the identification of gaps that need to be filled to achieve the sustainable development goals at the local level and at the same time. This study defined the strategy for local and the third equation. The three components that you see on the right are the different baseline gaps that were identified by this study which are advocacy action and monitoring, which are key. And just to conclude, if we are to achieve the SDGs and to really keep keep on track for a shared humanity for our shared humanity for our shared future, we need to work together. And based on this, UN habitat is ready to work with all of you to support your work on the implementation of the SDGs. Thank you very much and apologize if I went a bit over time. Thank you. Thank you, Claudia. Thank you very much for highlighting the importance of multi-level governance process, especially focusing on how local government should have a crucial roles in advocating SDGs. And I really also like that you highlight the importance of having participatory and inclusive process integrated in monitoring and measuring SDGs. We'll actually revisit this again when we with other panelists so happy to discuss that a bit more. Now moving on to our second panelist, which is our very own as Asia ploy a jacket will be suit. Miss ploy is a research fellow at the Stockholm environment Institute Asia whose policy and research and stakeholder engagement focuses on aligning fossil fuel supply with climate air pollution and health goals. She co leads as he is initiative on tackling carbon lock in and serve as a coordinating lead outer and lead analyst of the production gap report series that as he I publishes in coordination with the UN environment program. The report tracks the misalignment between governments plan fossil fuel production and the global level consistent with the Paris agreement. So I will give presentation on transitioning away from fossil fuels for a net zero world. We'll have the slides up. Thank you. And hi everyone. Thank you very much all the panelists and members in the audience for joining us today. Can you go to the full screen for the slides please. So while we're waiting for that as content mentioned and I'm going to be sharing with you some of si's work on fossil fuel supply side policies. Thank you. Yeah, you can go to the next slide. So at si is content mention mentioned I helped to lead the production gap report series which we publish in collaboration with unit and several other international research institutes. The report was released back in late 2019 and it was designed to provide a complimentary analysis to the annual unit emissions gap report series. As I'm sure many of you are already aware that emissions gap reports series provides an assessment of the gap between countries greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets as pledged under the nationally determined emissions or NDCs and the emissions levels that would be consistent with the Paris agreement schools of limiting global warming to 1.5 or well below two degrees Celsius. However, to date few if any fossil fuel producing countries have evaluated how their production targets might be aligned or misaligned with the Paris agreement schools, or with their own domestic climate mitigation ambitions. So our 2019 production gap report introduced the concept of a fossil fuel production gap as a new metric to attract the discrepancy between the levels of fossil fuel production being planned by governments worldwide and the global levels that would be consistent with the Paris agreements temperature limits. I'm going to be sharing with you results from our most recent report which was released at the end of 2021. And our next report is slated for release in early November this year just before COP 28. Next slide please. So the global production gap analysis rests on two major components. The first is the one highlighted here on the slide which is the global pathways of fossil fuel production. It's consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5 or two degrees Celsius. And for this we rely on the mitigation scenario database compiled by the intergovernmental panel on climate change. And these scenarios are generated by integrated assessment models that simulate how the world's energy and land use systems can be transformed in the most cost effective way to stay below a given temperature threshold, including how quickly we need to reduce fossil fuels in our energy supply mix. And after screening out scenarios with very high reliance on as yet unproven carbon dioxide removal technologies, we derived the median pathway and interquartile ranges of the global amounts of coal oil and gas supply that would be consistent with the Paris agreements goals, as shown by the blue and green lines on this figure. Next slide please. The second major component is this so called countries production plans and projections pathway. Next slide please. To explain how we derive this pathway. Essentially, we compile and search for the most recent data on coal oil and gas production projections that are publicly available from the National Energy Plans, the National Energy documents of major fossil fuel producing governments and state owned enterprises. And in our 2021 report, we were able to gather data from 15 major fossil fuel producing countries that all together accounted for around 75% of global production, including Asia Pacific region, China, India and Indonesia, and their aggregate projections are then scaled up to a global trajectory based on their estimated shares of future global production under a scenario modeled by the IA consistent with countries fulfilling their climate pledges. Next slide please. And so the production gap is this discrepancy between countries planned and projected fossil fuel production and global production levels that would be consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 or two degrees Celsius in any given year. And in our 2021 report, we found that the size of the production gap has essentially remained largely unchanged compared to our 2019 and 2020 assessments. The government still plan to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and 45% more than would be consistent with limiting warming to two degrees Celsius. And global production levels implied by countries climate pledges as shown by the gold line in this figure also remain higher than those consistent with the Paris agreement schools. And we noticed that although we're seeing a growing number of countries announcing net zero emissions targets and increasing their climate ambitions, they have yet to plan for a rapid and sustained reduction in fossil fuel production that these targets require. There remains a vast disconnect between the two. Next slide please. In this presentation I just wanted to reflect on one point which is that having worked on the production gap analysis and analyzing the IPCC mitigation scenarios over the past four years. This made me realize that from a pure climate mitigation perspective alone that can be many different fossil fuel transition pathways and climate mitigation strategies that could conceivably be consistent with achieving net zero emissions. This unfortunately often relies on as yet unproven carbon dioxide removal and carbon capture and storage technologies, which some of these models might select as a cost effective option. So for example looking at the gas supply trajectories we see some scenarios phasing out gas, pretty much quickly between now and mid century, whereas others actually see kind of a continued long term role for gas. As it can be coupled to carbon capture and storage technologies in the future. Last slide please. However, this kind of thinking fails to account for all the harmful public and environmental health harms of our continued fossil fuel reliance, which are especially being born by industry workers and local frontline communities and ecosystems, living near the fossil fuel infrastructure sites. And so for example science tells us also that each year, almost 9 million people worldwide are dying prematurely from air pollution arising from fossil fuel combustion. And our continued fossil reliance is also a major driver of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. So for those of you who may be interested, I've written a perspective on this issue with some other SEI colleagues as noted here on this slide. And so I think it's really important that as decision makers sets global national agendas on decarbonizing our energy systems in line with climate goals. We also consider the risks of for example betting on unproven carbon dioxide removal or carbon capture and storage technologies, as well as consider how different climate mitigation strategies might be aligned with the achievement of other SDGs, and also with equity principles. Thank you very much for your attention. I have a very interesting overview on the production gap report seems like although the transformation towards national green house gas emission is underway and many countries has pledges to do so. It does not necessarily align with the global agendas. We will revisit this again, and I hope you can share more information during our Q&A. And I would like to remind our participants as well if you have any questions, any comments to be to share we have the Q&A box but if you cannot access them you could also put your question or comments in the chat. And we can always monitor the chat. Thank you very much. Our next panelist will be Mr. Tristan Ace, Chief Product Officer from Asia Fenders Philanthropy Network. Tristan leads FEPN's policy and thematic based program which are focused on supporting a wide range of impact organizations to more strategically deploy financial and human resources to address key social and environmental issues in the Asia Pacific region. It's more than 18 years experience working in more than 20 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and for the past 11 years in the Asia Pacific region. Tristan, we're glad to have you here and I'll let you take the lead. Well, thank you very much. Pleasure to be here this afternoon to be with you. And to have the opportunity to talk a little bit about some of the work that AVPN has been doing to ensure that the voice of our members is heard amongst policy conversations at both regional and global levels. I think I wanted to start just by framing what I plan to say with what I've heard already. And thinking about Claudia's comments around the role of technical cooperation, knowledge and capacity building, advocacy and Gigi partnerships as a set of approaches to addressing this STG gap, the gaps we currently have in meeting the STGs. And also really, I suppose, take it back. I'm not sure what the right phrase is, but sort of the very sobering statistics that were and presentation by Ploy here around the fuel production gap and this phrase which struck me. And you said that probably the vast disconnect between the current reality of the on the ground and the and the and these and these ambitious net zero targets. So they're looking at really trying to use that data to try to influence governments with with with their policy approaches. The theory of change today VPN has in addressing this problem is really the challenge of mobilizing capital. So this is the, and I want to sort of frame that in this context because that's the the angle that we take in trying to address this problem. I know that there are many, many things that need to change both in the in the regulatory environment in the way that we partner with each other in ensuring that the voice of the most underserved communities are heard in these policy conversations. And that's all incredibly important. The angle that we take as a VPN is really trying to understand how we can mobilize more capital to address these critical issues and in this context of course the climate crisis. So just a bit of background then and ADPN is the largest social investment network in Asia, we have about 600 members, and our members are united by a shared goal in mobilizing capital to achieve, achieve the SDGs really, and our members are a range of organizations from the largest foundations in the world, so philanthropic capital, increasingly impact capital as well so impact funds, development of finance institutions, family offices who are looking to diversify their portfolios and invest in, in impact for projects, businesses, funds, etc. So our role really is in trying to help those organizations do their work more effectively. And, and how do we do that well we do that around our thematic focus areas of which one is our climate action platform and what I would I intend to do just for the next few minutes or so and come come to me perhaps you can tell me how much time I have so I can, I can just ascertain how long I should, I should spend, because I could go on for a long time but perhaps I might just give a few, a few insights just just just in a few minutes so we have more time for the Q&A. Yes, thanks for checking just and you will have around five minutes or seven. I'll try six minutes they will be great if anybody who's here today do feel free to pop your questions in the chat box so that I can adjust what I have to say, accordingly to what you're interested in hearing about. But what I, what I want to do is talk about two things really first of all great very briefly, and I'll try to keep each two minutes. First of all, the work we've done, particularly with our, with our community of social investors to understand the barriers that they're facing in mobilizing capital to climate. Globally, and that's particularly focusing on our philanthropic and concessional capital members so the moment there's still very very small amounts of philanthropy going into climate, which we try to really understand why that why that is the case particularly in developing parts of the world. Secondly, I can talk very briefly about time right now perhaps during the Q&A sessions about some of the recommendations that we've made to governments through our work with G20 last year in Indonesia and this year in India in fact we just submitted an input paper, that was hot off the press last week to the G20 to the sustainable finance working group looking at addressing their priority area which was in how to mobilize SDG financing so very very aligned to the topic of today's conversation. So what are the barriers that we're seeing well, I think the, the, there's a few different things that I think are interesting from a, from our perspective today, and one that I'll draw out. And it's this dilemma between of the challenge of mitigation versus adaptation. The, the very technical analysis can be very and the numbers around the carbonizing can be can be really daunting and very confusing to our members who are often engaged in more direct projects with communities around issues that impact their day to day lives now of course many of these issues are increasingly being impacted by climate change but they might not be realized as such. And this sense so the question for others how we take these, these organizations that might already be investing in health, or in water, or in education, and help them to think about how they address that issue with a climate lens so this intersectionality question is one that we're really trying to grapple with. And we see this as a pathway to take investors on that journey from where climate is an afterthought or not something that's part of their portfolio is something that might, that might become integrated with an existing issue that they are attempting to deal with. And this is an approach that we're that we're experimenting with at the moment with a number of social investors in India. And we are planning to also launch programs across mainland China and across Southeast Asia as well. So that's one key barrier and and one one way we want to engage with them the second is aligning investors with government priorities. This issue in some contexts can still be quite politically sensitive so there's a real opportunity we think to engage our private sector actors with governments. And through that process build trust through build understanding build collaboration we know that there will be one of the. There's a huge amount of new wealth in the region everyone talks about the biggest biggest transfer of wealth in human history taking place across the across the Asia Pacific region so it's a real, we know that the next generation wants to do things differently than previous generations there's a real opportunity to shift the way that these new wealth holders behave and act and so we think that that's a real opportunity for us as well. So there's a two two areas of barriers and and and and some of the some of the strategies that we are we're embarking on I'll just talk about one more. I think we think might be interesting and this is the the role that that we that capital capital capital can play and by catalytic capital what I mean is is utilizing philanthropic capital to mobilize private sector investment. As a way to reduce the risk as a way to provide some first loss in in in blended finance structures, for example, and and therefore have create funding instruments that can invest in some of those longer term projects that might not be financially viable or as financially viable today. So a few different strategies and a few obstacles a few different strategies that we've been embarking on and some recommendations there as well but I'll stop and happy to take any questions. In fact, thanks for saying I actually have the privilege to attend last year FEPN public conference. And it's really showing that it's, you know, there's a lot of issues and intersectionalities, a lot of funding that actually have a very strong component on SDKs but not using the climate lens framework as you mentioned. And interestingly enough, I'm also part of the of the SDG baseline project that you and have that has shared and one of the issues actually looking at the financing gap on SDKs. So it's all interlinked and I hope we can have a discussion on this later on the Q&A. So I'd like to welcome our next presenters. So Miss Nithya Erkana, Executive Council member from Asia Indigenous People Pack. Miss Nithya Erkana is a Hmong Indigenous group from the Northern of Thailand. She's working with Intermountain People Education and Culture in Thailand Association. She also Executive Member of the Asian Indigenous People Pack or AIPP and Secretariat Member of the Network of Indigenous People in Thailand or NIPT. So Miss Nithya will present on Local Community Empowerment and Policy Engagement. Thank you Miss Nithya. Oh, you are still muted. I think your soundness is a bit unclear. Can you? And again, yeah, I would like to remind for all of you who's joining our session, this is a very rich and also unique as we have researchers, we have academies, we have UN agency, we have philanthropies and then representative for Mindfulness and Indigenous group as well as government agencies. So feel free to ask any questions and you can drop this in the chat. So Miss Nithya, are you ready? Yeah, yeah, can you hear me? Okay, yes, better. Okay, yeah, thank you. So thanks again for inviting me to present our issue from the grassroots to all of you. First of all, I would like to say that our organization is an Indigenous organization and that are working with the Indigenous people in Thailand. And in order to enhance the capacity of the community leaders, including the Indigenous women, children, youth and also the knowledgeable person and the person with disability. And we are also trying to strengthen the mechanism of our Indigenous networks in different communities or different Indigenous groups to and also support them to manage their community based on the culture and livelihood and our engagement through advocacy and policy changing. So, firstly, when we heard about the SDG in the beginning, we feel that the SDG are a hope of Indigenous people who have been long-forgetting and left behind because we are marginalized people in Thailand. And because of our, we found out all the 17 goals of the SDG are the principle based that are having the human rights and human dignity approach. So this is very, how to say, it is a hope of our Indigenous people and also reflect the relationships with the Indigenous people in connecting with the UN Declaration on the Human Rights of Indigenous People and also taking account in the EPIC in the free, prior and informed consent. So this is the right for Indigenous people to participate in the addition making and advocacy. So I think this kind of thing are some kind that Indigenous people are hope a lot that SDG will be a channel for us to implement in the community level in order for us to, how to say, to have an equality and access to everything. However, according to Thailand, we found that the Thai government already moved for the SDG move or have been driving for quite a long time. But the Indigenous people we are not yet involved in the process, in the mobilization process because of, I would say that Thailand are not recognized. We are not yet recognized the Indigenous people. So that why we are always in the process of the mobilization. They're always think that we are only the target people who are not have capacity to manage ourselves. So that why all the activities have been done just by the middle organization that not directly to our grassroots organization like the community organization like that. So we are missed the process of the inclusive. So, and also the partnership process also. So I would say that that kind of the issue that can, how to say, increase a lot of problem is not enough kind of try to solve the problem. But instead, no, but I increase a lot of problem for us because even the government they try to set up a lot of plans to implement on the SDG. But those kind of plan are not appropriate to our Indigenous communities because for us, according to our Indigenous people, we are always talking about the land issue, our linking with the land issue. But we are always limited to access to our lands and our resources. So that why if we connection to all the SDG goal, we Indigenous people, we cannot avoid the all the issue linking with the land issue are not only for the the target one that talking about the land only, but according to the food security, we are a lot of depending on the land rights issue. And now a lot of there are many policies that are declared and without consultation with Indigenous people. And there are policies in Thailand that impact to our livelihood, especially on to limit us to access to our land. And that also how to say to limit us to have the food security with we have been transferred of those kind of knowledge for the food security for quite a long, but those kind of knowledge are not recognized. So that why we are now we increase the problem and most of the Indigenous people who are who don't have the right to access to land, they have to migrant to live in the town and increase another problem in the town in the city also. So this is just some of the issue of the problem. So, in order to how to say to to move forward, you know, for making ensure the principle of the agenda of the leaving no behind, no one behind. I think this kind of thing you have to really thinking about the inclusive the parties partnership and the positive participatory approach. And firstly, you have to really trust that our indigenous people we have our capacity. We have our, our, how to say, our resources that we are able to live in our territory, our lands in sustainable way. We have our knowledge to manage that kind of resources. Those kind of knowledge you have been transferred for a long, long time already, but are and that's kind of already proved that it is just a sustainable way. But then the people are the outsider people they saw that those, they are not realized about our, our practice, our knowledge. So, that why there are many policies that impact to our level we cannot continue our practice like that. I think if you believe that we have the capacity to do so. The first thing is that inclusive to for the people to involve in in the since in the very beginning and just how to say trust for us to be the lead initiative by ourselves. And the outside organization you can support us to pay the facilitation low or to coaching some also for some resources for us. So, I think it's kind of a it can enhance the community to to develop the capacity and also to support the community to solve their own problem. And this will be the sustainable way and sometimes it's don't need to spend a lot of resources because they feel they are on a ownership of their own land and territory. So, I think this kind of method will be one of the method that can be a sustainable way. And I don't think it's the participatory approach. We will say that a lot of policy that are and adopt in Thailand now, have, have been declared and without any consultation or even though some consultation process have been done but with the very limited for our Disney people to assess. And we some with also the political policymaker know they have some discord and also the other thing about their, their it is in this people that we are bad word we are no education we have no knowledge like that. So, whenever you are thinking like that, so you are not able to solve the problem and we are always, we will be always outside the decision making and not be able to participate. So I think this kind of thing that are as the partnership. Sorry. Could you wrap, please. Okay. I apologize, but we so that we can have a bit of time for the Q&A that's all. Okay. Yeah. So, I will say that if you feel that we are the additional people as the partnership know so I think the inclusive and the participatory are very necessary for us to get involved in all processes and we as Disney people we are willing to, to be a good partner for everyone. And we also have our organization, it is an organization who are who we are from the grassroot level so just just you trust that we are able to do by ourselves but are, we have to are, I mean, there are many funders are really there are many resources that are still highly for us to directly access. So, if we can get some channel to receive some funding or some resources or technical support directly to Disney people. I believe that this will be a kind to how to risk the audit I guess. Yeah, yeah, so I will give more information in the Q&A. Thank you. Thank you very much. And thank you for sharing this very strong and important message. I definitely link with our previous person as well. Giving rights and also trust to local communities to local government, making sure that the meaning of no one left behind it actually applicable for all, and being inclusive in SDG implementation. Before we're moving to the last presenter, sorry, I just want to mention that Tristan we have questions from you in the Q&A if you could answer that in the chat and maybe if we have time, then we could invite your comment. I see that boy is already answering questions. So yeah, last but not least. We have our last speakers, which is Mr. Akta Phong Chan Phan Nuomert, director of the policy and master plan division office of the National Water Resources Thailand. Mr. Akta Phong has an academic background in irrigation engineering, civil engineering and construction management. And he has more than 20 years of experience in public sector from Block 3 in Seattle to national level. Mr. Akta Phong, if you could have a brief presentation, that would be great. Yeah, I will share my presentation. Yes, I will talk about the sustainable policy for water resource governance in Thailand, because in Thailand we have a broad allegation for water management, because in the first, we have the Water Resource Act. This is the important key for to be the success. The second we have the organization like the water resource committee, water user group and river basin committee. And the third, we have the guideline or 20 year water resource management, master plan, and the fourth pillar we have the knowledge and innovation and technology. And the fourth, we will combine together to driving to the future. And how in the fourth year of the ONWR that the regulator, we found that a lot of the problem in Thailand is have a problem, and we will look back and look forward. Because we will apply for the 5P for the sustainable development like a people plan at the possibility piece and partnership to be together and to apply to the SDG and apply to the water resource policy also. So, and the fast for you, we found that we have the COVID pandemic is after have a lot of effects for the Thailand people. And I think that every country is will have the effect also about the pandemic and the climate change. So we have the key for the success, we will apply to the nature based solution and like right economy and eco based system adaptation and digital technology. And after that we will find how to save the people we will apply the same type frameworks to be suspendable development goal to produce the target. So in this, in this way, we will use this time to apply that because in the fourth year that we passed the government we use the top child policy only is we have a lot of the problem about the area base and area and people is not understand about the policy what to do. But now we look back and we apply about the gap analysis. So we will pick up the policy and get the other government agency that we have more than 50 agency in Thailand to make about the water resources. So we'll combine all the plan. And after that we get the plan to be the key and add to the people problem and we get the river basin problem also and to get together all to make it together. And after, after that we will participate with the river basin committee and water user group and government agency to go together to have the floor for open for in the floor, we will participate with the people and we let the the facilitator by the government by the local facilitator to arrange because in the past we use the facilitator that's come from the university and other from the government, we will have the problem that the people cannot say anything through the government to make the policy. But we use the local people to be the facilitator is the key of the success to make the co-creation plan. So the co-creation plan we will make a new rehabilitation to revise the 20 year water resource management master plan. This one is we will revise by the people by the water user group that we participate. And after that we use to combine about 5p to this situation in to make the people to understand how to balance this and this one we go to the goal. So, when we do it, this plan, so the, when we have the co-creation plan, the, we will set up about the water resident management and plan with the co citizen co design. So the people need about the, to provide the people to equal basic drinking water service, because in the local area. We will have a problem about the drinking water, about the domestic use also. So, this one is the point that the people want to make the government to create this thing. So we, this one is to put to be the important plan to be the master plan. And the second, the people like to support or to the economic development goal, reduce the damage and increase the income in the farmland increase the production in the area and stable water because of in the dry season we will have a drought. Because in Thailand in with the climate change in the past four year, we will file that is we have a frequency that more than the ever let 10 years that passed. So this one is important in about the agriculture. We have a lot of feedback about for the, for the user group. So in the about the agriculture side, especially, and it's have the effect for the like the EEC that we have the critical water to do also. This one is will try to make it stronger to find the storage more storage. And third, about the residents. This one we have a lot of flood in Thailand now. So we will reduce the damage and life and locality impact to economic support climate change. So we will apply the same type plan to these strategies and the fourth, how to recover about the environment. So we will congregate and restore the entire water resource economy. We call system, because this one now we use the tool up high about the green and play structure together we will call the hybrid structure. So this one we will solve about to let to destroy to and make the understand to the people to conservation the forest and the fourth and fifth. This one is important about the water management tool, because the water management tool, we will give the important about the farmer participation in water communities, because in the past, the government, the one who do and the one who manage, but now we will turn it up to make the authority to the water user group, because the law is allow the water user group to management his own resources. So this one is the key of the success and with the government to make the water user group to be strong by the set the knowledge and technology and apply the local wisdom to to be the tools for the people, because when the water management is not can cannot be applied from the top down because it's after about the geography and social and the culture that is different, because in Thailand is have the full path. So this one is the important how to solve this problem. So we use the participation and in the past in the education area we have a choice management committee to be the one who can management, the own his own the water resources by we've set to be the committee and sharing about the need and about for the management, the supply and the demand and supply to balance it and make it have a safety factor by the government come back to like the consultancy only and the farmers will be managed by his own but what the user group might manage by his own and we apply the technology to to be the tools for the water user group, because this one is important about the data, the data is important for decision, what is the way to do the what the way to manage the leaks that we will happen and we will and and in the government side, we will have a user digital life to be one website. This one will combine all the water resource and water situation, and we have to forecast the situation of the water in Thailand to about the one week, one month and three, three months for the guideline to be the farmers and water to to to let the water user to manage his own by on by by use the data and in the financing. In the law we use the combined all the finance from the every agency, because in the function is this have the 50 agency that you will top down policy to do in the area, and the agenda is from the policy to apply to area, and we have the area. Budget also. So the three budget. Okay. Yes, so they're in the finance. So we will let the provincial committee to be the set up the finance by his own. So we will just meant by the committee and let the liver basing committee to address and after that, all the need. To the going to be under the one who the regulator to endorse all the need of the liver basing to be the cabinet to set the plan. This one is a tree. This one for the output, we will support all the sustainable development. This one is a special for solve the no poverty no hunger and good health by and we have a gender equity. This one we will set from the driving by the STC six, this one. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. And I do apologize that we are a bit like out of the time for all the panelists is all very interesting. I know that some of the questions are already being addressed. So, we're actually supposed to finish on Wednesday, but I see like all this excitement. If I could just take like five more minutes from of your time. And since there's no more question and Q&A, I would like to invite each of the panelists just to close this patient to share their one sentence on the key takeaway points on how should we actually accelerate the STG's achievement in the region. So maybe we can start with, we can start the course we can start with Mr. Atta Pong and then Miss Mitaya and then Tristan and then Roy and then Claudia. Yes, I think the tool is for the success for the water resource development is about the participation because we will know the need and the way how to do and you use the cooperation to decision together to drive the policy together with the people for the brands of the economic, social and geographic. This one is an important thing to go together with the two developments. We're aware about the planet also because this one is very important for it to have a lot of effect for climate change. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, and I keep hearing the same words so called developing share code knowledge and and color designing seems very important. And next, Miss Mitaya. I think she's not here, so maybe we, okay, yes. Okay. Yeah, sorry. My internet is not stable. Yeah, so I will get a lot for it for the planet that are indigenous people and we are, we really want to avoid the process of the development also in the implementation of the STG and actually there are many national plans that it should to be done in the country level, especially relating on the climate change and on the STBD, you know, and we got to know that internet now it's going to develop the NSF and also the NEP, but also we really hope to be one of the partnerships you will in the decision or in the design of the implementing plan. And I think this can help us if you are involved in the really beginning process. So this kind of possible view will get how to say more partnership and to be more participatory from the indigenous people part and you can have a more different perspective from the different groups. And we also would like to get the issue that we are now trying to push the law to promote the indigenous people rise in Thailand and still in the process in the parliament and really hope that for the future of the political of Thailand, really hope that our issue will be erased and be heard by the political maker, policy maker and will be included in some other policies. So, and other thing is, the other thing is I would like to repeat again that just to be a few trust for our indigenous people to be involved and be the partner chief in all levels. Yeah, I just would like to give you a shot. Yeah. Thank you. Very well noted the importance of inclusivity, participatory in making process in addition making and a bottom up approach, including marginalized people and indigenous people in the SDGs. The next one will be Tristan. Yeah, well thank you. So my, I think two recommendations. I'm really building on what I was saying earlier on is first of all, looking at how you can develop pathways from that enable policies and strategies to connect with issues that affect people's lives on a day to day basis, if we can do that, and find those investment pathways that enable those investments to both have direct real impacts on people's livelihoods jobs issues that really mean mean something to people whilst addressing the climate crisis at the same time. I think that is a strategy which might that is challenging and difficult to find those pathways but if we can do that, then I would encourage governments to really get behind behind that because that's really what's going to mobilize communities to get behind this agenda. And I think that sometimes, you know, talking about these very talking about 1.5 degrees and net zero and decarbonization can be quite alienating to to communities that are most impacted and the frontline and really experiencing these issues but might not experience it as climate impact but actually experience it as as impacts on their livelihoods and on their health and on their food security and issues that really meaningful to them. Thanks, Tristan. Yes, very important to develop an inclusive pathways who all this multi stick out of sectors can work together, despite the challenges that they face. Thank you. I think yeah there's just no question anymore that fossil fuels are the root course of multiple global environmental and public health crises were facing today climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, land degradation and so we really need and kind of long term policy interventions to face our coal oil and gas production and use in a rapid managed and equitable manner, and really think about protecting public health and welfare. Thank you. Thank you. I guess the message is player of the time is now we have to work very fast and transforming to fossil fuel. And last but not least, yeah, we have quality. Thank you very much and thanks for all the impressive presentations was great to hear your experiences. And I will just share the recommendations. The first one is that we have advanced quite a lot in the recognition of partnerships for for sustainable development agendas from previous one to the legendary agenda, but we should not stop and we should continue and we should keep advocating for transversal and and work working together. The second one is emphasizing their role in the work at the local level with with local communities and with with grassroots organizations. And the third one that we need to keep doing this we need to talk to each other we need to hear to each other and we need to learn from what it's happening all over the world. Thank you very much for this exchange. Thank you very much yes partnership and collaboration and it's very interesting to highlight also how we should talk to each other, because we all from different sectors and sometimes we speak different language that like Tristan has mentioned even though we're actually talking the same thing. In the health of Asia as the host, I would like to express my gratitude to the presence of all of the speakers and participant for staying with us as I together with these partners are now actually underway to re energize commitment, scale up action and solicit scientific input to push on the agenda in the run up to the summit. So your present and contribution in the station are very valuable for us with definitely will take account all of your comments and also all of your insight. So we hope that knowledge and experience that we have shared today will help to us sharing the new era of transformative change. Again, I think some of my colleague already mentioned feel free to reach out to us through Twitter or LinkedIn or Facebook or any of the social media. Some of the panelists feel free to drop your email. And if you have any ideas, questions or potential partnership on collaboration in accelerating the SDGs, definitely contact us. Thank you very much for our session today. Thank you all the panelists, thank you all the participants have a good day and see you again soon. Bye. Thank you, everyone. Bye. Thank you. Bye.