The paper Transboundary Impacts of Climate Change in Asia: Making a case for regional adaptation planning and cooperation aims to address the transboundary impacts of climate change. It emphasizes the significance of regional cooperation to strengthen the collective adaptation solutions to address the impacts of climate change on transboundary natural resources and other teleconnections.
The paper emphasizes the lack of recognition of climate change impacts on transboundary natural resources in the international climate change regime and related processes. As regional adaptation planning provides an important opportunity to address the current gaps in adaptation planning, it can help initiate efforts to identify and quantify the impacts of climate change on regional and sub-regional teleconnections, and mainstream solutions into national and subnational adaptation planning. There is an increasing consensus among international organizations that such regional adaptation planning should be a priority to fill important gaps in the current discourse on adaptation planning.
The report suggests that there is a lack of examples for countries to emulate when it comes to adaptation planning. It also mentions that Asia lacks a regional mechanism attuned to the needs of each country that could support the National adaptation plans (NAPs). Hence, it is important to strengthen regional cooperation to address the transboundary impacts of climate change and focus on collective leadership to identify and address issues associated with common resources.