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It is 2020 and the world is at a crossroads on climate change. The Paris Agreement aims to limit global warming to 1.5ºC–2ºC above preindustrial temperatures. Current international climate responses will not meet these targets. Thus, urgent and widespread action is indispensable. Recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports showed a significant difference in the degree of impact between 1.5ºC and 2ºC of warming. Indeed, the 1.5ºC goal is the safest for most of Asia and the Pacific.

The Paris Agreement aims to limit global warming 1.5ºC–2ºC above preindustrial temperatures. Current international climate responses will not meet these targets. Thus, urgent and widespread action is indispensable. recent Intergovernmental Panelon Climate change reports showed significant difference in degree of impact between 1.5ºC–2ºC of warming. Indeed, the 1.5ºCgoal is the safest for most of Asia and the Pacific. And then the covid19 pandemic entered the equation, shutting down economies and claiming almost 1,163,459 lives by 28 Oct 2020. Its devastating impacts leave the world struggling toe rebuild. After the covid19., the world must choose the path toward a safer, inclusive, dignifies and resilient future.

Women play an important roles for leading actions to strengthen resilience to disaster and climate-related chocks and stresses, especially at the local level. Such actions create transformational change by challenging existing standards and paradigms and concur with the objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement, and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. However, investments in such actions remain limited.