As the largest and most populous continent in the world, Asia plays an extremely important role in global climate change research and response. To raise awareness and propel discussions about sustainable priorities for Asia, the Asia Spotlight Event was held from June 21 to June 24, 2022 as part of the SRI2022 held in Pretoria, South Africa. The Spotlight event was hosted by Future Earth Global Secretariat China in coordination with all Hubs in Asia, including Japan, South Asia, Taipei and also the US hub.
The following 20 sessions were featured in Asia Spotlight Event of SRI 2022.
- Asia Spotlight Event Opening Plenary – Asian Regional Climate Modeling, Impact Assessment and Action
The opening plenary session for the Asia Spotlight Event was aimed to enhance mutual understanding and exchanges among the researchers, broke down the current disciplinary barriers, carried out cooperative research activities, promoted discipline building in the related fields, and made the research results of natural and social sciences more actively serve the sustainable development.
This open networking session was a great opportunity for the professionals, researchers, and practitioners in the field of sustainable development to meet and discuss their work for any potential collaboration.
This session aimed to cover a wide range of interdisciplinary issues related to the coastal livelihoods and socio-ecosystems that are impacted by the typhoons.
This session aimed to strengthen the systematical and in-depth understanding of the cryosphere-anthroposphere relationship through the dialogues by international well-known experts in the field of natural and social sciences.
This session addressed the recent developments, problems, and solutions to the issues related to open data and discussed the ethics of providing or using the open data for public/environmental affairs.
This session aimed to understand the impact of climate change on the eco-environment and economic development in the four Greater Bay Areas of the world, with particular interests in climate projections and corresponding countermeasures, and for improving disaster pre-warning and forecasting abilities.
This session has attempted to demonstrate the potential transformability and scalability of the open thermodynamic system frameworks.
This session has provided an excellent opportunity of networking with other Asian young researchers and professionals at the SRI2022.
This session has discussed the institutional dynamics, policy integration, and responsive governance across different countries, to expand and strengthen the blue carbon initiative.
In this session, a diverse set of practitioners and researchers working on issues of climate change, water and health, share their experiences of working with communities across the country and highlights the importance of making water research more people-centric.
This session took live cases from Indian subcontinent and analyzed the Design Thinking and System Thinking approach for reaching qualitative results to demonstrate the hypothesis accounted for establishing the theory of trust.
This session has targeted to present an innovative picture of future by inviting speakers from different research teams, with presentations focusing on mitigation pathways towards achieving the Paris Agreement targets.
This session has outlined how Asian governments and institutes in partnership with EU and US and other stakeholders can address the above-mentioned problems through a coordinated approach by building a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) by connecting the government agencies and research institutions.
This session proposed as a useful tool (Online Synthesis Systems) for Disaster risk reduction, Resilience and Sustainability, which was a web-based knowledge integration system.
This session has focused on the issues of migrant workers and examines the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on them in the Global South countries.
This session was jointly organized, which was aiming to provide highlights on recent research findings and identify next steps for collaboration, such as forming a joint working group and developing Air-Climate-Health Science Insights Report etc.
This session aimed to discuss the role of knowledge and knowledge generation with integrated actions, impacts, and solutions delivered by different stakeholders, public and private sectors; supported by civil society, academicians and researchers.
This session highlighted how coastal areas are severely affected by perennial occurrence of super typhoons.
This session has discussed food loss and waste to accomplish regional climate goals and alleviate environmental stress.
The Closing Plenary has provided the space to reflect back on inspiring discussions related to the themes: New Horizons, Different Ways of Knowing, Nexus Issues and Cross-Cutting Science and Innovation in Asia.