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SCF Newsletter | October 2021
ONGOING: China-ASEAN Environmental Cooperation Forum 2021


SEI Asia has been supporting the annual ASEAN-China Environmental Cooperation Forum (CAECF) through the Strategic Collaborative Fund since 2018. It is a key interregional platform to facilitate policy dialogues and knowledge exchange between ASEAN and China.  

This year, the event will be a hybrid of in-person in Nanning, China and virtually through Zoom. SEI Asia will be participating in the following sessions:
  • Advancing a New Process of Biodiversity Governance and Fueling Sustainable Development at the Main Forum, High-level Dialogue (25 Oct)
  • Keynote at the Climate Investment and Financing sub-forum (25 Oct)
  • Presentation on the Aid Atlas at Climate Investment and Financing sub-forum (26 Oct)
  • Nature-based Solutions sub-forum (26 Oct)
Visit the CAECF website to learn more about the event.
SAVE THE DATE: Sustainable and Inclusive Solutions for Air Quality and Climate Change

Air pollution and climate change pose a serious threat to the health and well-being of Southeast Asia's population - particularly women, children, poor, and other disadvantaged groups.

SEI’s Strat
egic Collaborative Fund partner, Clean Air Asia, will host a regional environmental policy forum on 23-25 November 2021 on integrated solutions to air pollution, climate change, social and gender inequality in Southeast Asia.
 

For more information on upcoming regional events, please check out the SCF events page.
Latest Updates from SCF Partners
BRIEF: Strengthening Solidarity Towards Sustainable Agri-Food Systems in the GMS (Mekong Institute)
WEBINAR: Delta Resilience and Risk Governance Expert Forum GBM, India (AIT)
PRESS RELEASE: Youth, Science and Climate Action (TERI)

Learn more about SCF Partners for Regional Events in 2021...
Partnerships for the Goals
Exploring mechanisms for systemic thinking in decision-making through three country applications of SDG synergies

This journal article analyses three applications of a decision-support approach called SDG Synergies, which aims at building capacity in systems thinking among decision-makers and implementing agencies.

Photo: Bolatbek Gabiden/Unsplash

Photo: Bolatbek Gabiden/Unsplash

Drawing on empirical material from Mongolia, Colombia, and Sri Lanka, they identified three sets of mechanisms that seem important for enabling more systemic thinking: system boundaries, rules of engagement and biases.

Read more...
SEI Online Learning
SEI’s open online courses provide learning for career professionals, students and other learners for in-depth knowledge that will advance their work and studies, and help build career expertise. See our course offerings below.
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External Opportunities and Links
  1. ASEAN Conference on Policy and Governance for Climate-Smart Land Use (ASEAN)
  2. The role of international cooperation in disaster risk reduction (SEI)
  3. Floating resilience: how Thailand’s floating villages stay in place and adapt (SEI)
  4. Governments’ fossil fuel production plans remain dangerously out of sync with Paris limits (SEI)
  5. Funding for Conservation Projects (EOCA)
  6. Environment Fund: Tropical Rainforests (Waterloo Foundation)
About Us
SEI’s Strategic Collaborative Fund Phase 2 (SCF2), with support from the Swedish government (SIDA), emphasizes collaborative partnerships that integrate gender and social equality and human rights-based approaches.

We periodically send out a newsletter to give updates on our latest activities and events on environmental sustainability in Asia and beyond. Learn more about the Strategic Collaborative Fund...
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