The ASEAN Community has reached a historical point in the development of the ASEAN Climate Change Strategic Action Plan 2025-2030 (ACCSAP) and establishment of the ASEAN Centre for Climate Change (ACCC). The aim is to integrate existing policy and institutional frameworks at the regional and national levels, and to show and enable ASEAN’s pathway to a resilient net-zero ASEAN. For a transition that integrates both mitigation and adaptation, it is vital to update national climate policies such as long-term strategies (LTS), nationally determined contributions (NDCs), and national adaptation plans (NAPs), based on an innovative methodology linked to an integrated roadmap. This will trigger the mainstreaming of climate change objectives and measures into sectoral policies domestically. Furthermore, considering the diversity of ASEAN countries in terms of vulnerability to climate change and capabilities for mitigation and adaptation, it is essential to capture the variations across countries and multiple stakeholders, especially with regards to the (i) long-term national developmental visions, (ii) climate goals, and (iii) key challenges and critical factors on the pathways of mitigation and adaptation. Against this background, this session aimed to (1) share the preliminary results of the ongoing international research project (i.e. questionnaire survey analysis and consultation with national ministries at the national workshops), and (2) provide recommendations about the mitigation and adaptation integration at the national policy level in ASEAN/Asian countries, featuring discussions based on the opinions and perceptions of key stakeholders such as experts, industries including the power and finance sectors, and youth.
Temuulen MURUN
Fellow, Climate and Energy, IGES
ONO Hiroshi
Executive Director, IGES
ARINO Yosuke
Research Manager / Project Leader for Mitigation and Adaptation Integration, Strategic Management Office, IGES
Professor, IPB University / Head of the International Research Institute for Environment and Climate Change
Rizaldi BOER
Professor, IPB University _ Head of the International Research Institute for Environment and Climate Change
Rizaldi BOER, is a Professor at the IPB University and head of the International Research Institute for Environment and Climate Change. He received doctoral degree from University of Sydney, Australia in 1994. He has been working on climate change mitigation and adaptation, particularly on agriculture, forest and other land uses since 1998. He is very active in conducting several studies related to policies low carbon and climate resilience development. He involved in many international scientific teams, national research missions and several scientific projects of the United Nations and high-level global players (specifically on REDD, with the UNFCCC, SDSN, IDDRI, DANIDA, IGES, JICA, NIES, etc). He had been appointed as Chairperson of the RA-V Region Agricultural Meteorology Working Group (2002-2009) for WMO (World Meteorological Organization) and member of the Task Force Bureau for the IPCC Greenhouse Gas Inventory (2008-2015), and now serves as Chairman of the Expert Board of the Indonesian Agriculture Meteorology Society, as well as Member of the Advisory Board for the Asian Greenhouse Gas Inventory Working Group (WGIA), and the Asian Low Carbon Research Network (LoCARNet).
Adjunct Professor, School of Environmental Science and Management, University of the Philippines Los Banos
Damasa MACANDOG
Adjunct Professor, School of Environmental Science and Management, University of the Philippines Los Banos
Dr. Damasa MACANDOG is actively involved in research and provides leadership to multidisciplinary research teams. She is currently involved in the Development of Guidance on National Long-term Roadmap to Synergize Mitigation and Adaptation in ASEAN countries project. She was a contributor to the 2021 ASEAN State of Climate Change Report. Her research interests include climate change and environmental risk assessment; ecological studies of freshwater lakes; land use change and its impacts on biodiversity and hydrologic balance; biodiversity information system; mangrove ecosystem services in coastal hazard mitigation, developing climate decision-support framework, water and nutrient dynamics in indigenous muyong-payoh systems, marine plastic litter, and sustainability of agricultural and agroforestry production systems.
She is a retired Professor of Plant Ecology who taught courses on Plant Ecology, Principles of Ecology, Quantitative Ecology, Ecosystem Services and Climate Change, Earth Science, and Biology. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the UPLB School of Environmental Science and Management (SESAM). She serves as adviser to Biology, Botany and Environmental Science undergraduate and graduate students supervising their research activities.
Head of Research Unit in Sustainable Energy & Built Environment, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University
Bundit LIMMEESHOKCHAI
Head of Research Unit in Sustainable Energy & Built Environment, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University
Dr. Bundit LIMMEESHOKCHAI currently serves as Head of Research Unit in Sustainable Energy & Built Environment at Faculty of Architecture and Planning Thammasat University. He also serves as an Expert Member (Energy) of the Board of Directors at Thailand Greenhouse gas management Organization.
He obtained his D.Eng. (Energy Economics and Planning) and M.Eng. (Energy Technology) from Asian Institute of Technology, and B.Eng. (Mechanical Engineering) from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology North Bangkok.
His expertise covers greenhouse gas emissions, integrated assessment modeling, energy economics and climate change, energy system modeling, energy technologies in power generation transportation industries and buildings, CO2 mitigation, and integrated resources planning.
His research Interests include environmental and ecological economics, macroeconomic impacts of climate change mitigation, and climate resilience.
Director, Department of Science, Training, International Cooperation, and Journal, Viet Nam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology, and Climate Change (IMHEN)
TRAN Thanh Thuy
Director, Department of Science, Training, International Cooperation, and Journal, Viet Nam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology, and Climate Change (IMHEN)
Dr. TRAN Thanh Thuy is the Director of the Department of Science, Training, International Cooperation, and Journal of the Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology, and Climate Change (IMHEN). She is an expert in the fields of environment and climate change. Dr. Tran earned her master’s degree from the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi in Thailand in 2003.
She has played a significant role as a team leader and member of numerous climate change projects since 2010. These include her role as Project Manager for the UNDP-supported project "Strengthening National Capacities to Respond to Climate Change in Vietnam, Reducing Vulnerability, and Controlling GHG Emissions" from 2010 to 2014; team leader of the assessment of co-benefits of adaptation and mitigation measures for the NDC development in Vietnam (2018 and 2022); contributing to the development of a monitoring and evaluation system for adaptation actions for Viet Nam (2022); and the evaluation of NAP implementation for Viet Nam (2024), among others.
