People and planet: Addressing the interlinked challenges of climate change, poverty and hunger in Asia and the Pacific

This edition of the Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Partnership Report — People and Planet: Addressing the interlinked challenges of climate change, poverty and hunger in Asia and the Pacific — focuses on how the varying impacts of climate change across the region are interacting with poverty and hunger against the background of continuing cost-of-living pressures, global conflict and increasing climate shocks at a time when many countries are still recovering from the fiscal strains of the COVID-19 pandemic, over-extended borrowing and the high cost of debt.

Analyzing how intensifying climate change threatens to increase poverty and hunger in Asia and the Pacific, this report highlights the need for transformative solutions that advance climate action, increase resilience, and protect hard-fought development gains. This report underscores the need for an integrated and more regional approach, outlines key enablers including education and financing, and shows how all stakeholders can better incorporate the effects of climate change. Highlighting opportunities for better coordination between areas such as social protection and disaster risk reduction, it explores why sustainable food systems can help tackle hunger and poverty as the population climbs.