Asia-Pacific Climate Week – Communications Report

Background: From September 2-6, the World Bank and Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition participated in Asia-
Pacific Climate Week. Organized every year in Africa, Latin America & Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific, the Regional
Climate Weeks are unique collaborative platforms for government and non-Party stakeholders to address the
full spectrum of climate issues under one umbrella and unity of purpose. The central aim is to bring together
diverse stakeholders in the public and private sectors around the common goal of addressing climate change.
Asia-Pacific Climate Week is the third in a series of Regional Climate Weeks this year, the first two having taken
place in Ghana in March and Brazil in August. The World Bank is one of the “Global Partners” under the Nairobi
Framework Partnership that organizes the regional weeks. This past week, CPLC and the World Bank organized
three sessions focused on carbon pricing and markets.

Sessions:
Sept 3: Carbon pricing day hosted by World Bank, CPLC, and IETA
        Full Agenda; Participation: 100+
Sept 4: High-level carbon pricing plenary
        Participation: Approx. 200
Sept 6: CPLC/ICF carbon pricing workshop: “Perspectives of market players on carbon pricing policies”
        Full Agenda; Participation: 70+

Venkat Ramana Putti and Angela Churie Kallhauge participated in additional sessions as speakers.

Media & multimedia: We partnered with UNFCCC to promote the Climate Week, particularly the carbon pricing
sessions.

Press releases:
September 4, 2019: Economic Benefits of Regional Climate Action Are Highlighted at Asia-Pacific Climate Week
September 6, 2019: Asia Can Lead Global Transformation towards Low Carbon and Resilience

Videos:
Asia-Pacific Climate Week Day Two – Carbon Pricing Day Recap Video |
https://twitter.com/UNFCCC/status/1168894488384851968

Photographs: We teamed up with Connect4Climate and UNFCCC to photograph the full week.
See all the photos: Connect4Climate Flickr Page (Carbon Pricing Day); Connect4Climate Flickr Page
(YouthTakeover); UNFCCC Flickr Page
#YouthTakeover partnership with Connect4Climate:
CPLC teamed up with Connect4Climate to host a #YouthTakeover at Asia-Pacific Climate Week 2019. The
#YouthTakeover initiative gives local groups of students control of Connect4Climate’s social media pages during
key sustainability events in their region, allowing youth to speak for themselves on the issues most important to
them. This past week, five students from Mahidol University participated as a part of Asia-Pacific Climate Week.

Videos/Interviews: 12 interviews
Interview w/ Syeda Hadika Jamshaid, Ministry of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan
| https://youtu.be/Sz-s8oT8XXM
Interview w/ Angela Churie Kallhauge, Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition| https://youtu.be/orDcJufrF1g
Interview w/ Punyapha Visavakornvisid, Youth Representative at Asia-Pacific Climate Week |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HpDETgUrvk

Twitter: 45 tweets from #YouthTakeover
Instagram/Facebook: Students posted live Instagram and Facebook posts throughout the week for the
#YouthTakeover. Connect4Climate has 554K followers on Facebook and 9,400 on Instagram.




Social media:
Twitter: The Carbon Pricing Day was amplified on twitter through influential channels such as @WBG_Climate
(114K followers), @Connect4Climate (150K followers), and @UNFCCC (624K followers).
Feature Story: Pricing pollution will be critical for decarbonization in the Asia-Pacific

Other:

-APCW carbon pricing key messages can be accessed here.
-A few participants approached speakers after the Friday CPLC/ICF workshop and said it was the “best workshop
by far” that they attended. This was also communicated by email.
-World Bank/CPLC events consistently had some of the highest turnouts relative to other sessions throughout
the week.

Media:
Reuters: Asia’s growing coal use could negate global climate change progress, U.N. says
Independent: Asia’s growing coal use could negate global climate change progress, U.N. says