The deprivations in energy in terms of quantity as well as quality causes lack of development thereby poverty and human sufferings. This paper provides deeper insights into these aspects with a focus on the developing countries of the Asia and the Pacific region. It emphasizes the issues of securing energy needs of poor and climate change mitigation emerging as conflicting challenges, and their significance in the Asia-Pacific region in the global context. It also explores the possibility of providing universal access to modern energy carriers for the households of the Asia-Pacific by adopting a low-carbon pathway.

This paper explores available data on the observed and projected linkages between climate change and health in the Asia-Pacific region. It highlights key health risks and vulnerabilities due to climate change and extreme climatic events, including infectious diseases, injuries, and other morbidities. Particular health vulnerabilities of women and girls to climate change impacts, along with other vulnerable populations, are also examined.

This paper surveys the evidence on the ways in which economic development and policies aimed at advancing human development have contributed and currently contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. It also examines the feedback effects that such warming and the resulting climate change can have on growth and human

development, especially in the developing countries of the Asia-Pacific region. This provides the basis for identifying the national and global strategies needed to address global warming and its consequences, with special reference to Asia-Pacific.

This paper aims to enrich knowledge sharing about the establishment and management of national climate funds (NCFs), which is organized by the Asia-Pacific Community of Practice on Climate Finance. It reports the lessons learned extracted from the establishment and management of the Micronesian Conservation Trust (MCT), which is one of seven national funds across the Asia-Pacific region selected as a case study.