A climate smart approach to disaster risk management involves integrating three main components: reducing exposure to changing hazards through disaster risk reduction; enhancing adaptive capacity through climate change adaptation; and addressing poverty, vulnerability, and their underlying causes through development. This approach aims to avoid maladaptation and ensure spontaneous adaptation is better informed. There are opportunities to promote this approach through regional initiatives on disaster risk reduction, climate information sharing, and capacity building programs focused on adaptation and resilience.

1. Promoting a ‘Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management Approach’

2. LEARNINGS Need to avoid “mal-adaptation” & ensure that “spontaneous adaptation” is better informed and leads to effective adaptation Increasing exposure to risks – economic risks driving urgency of urban DRR Entry points for CCA: rebuilding from disasters (build back better -PDNAs) & building new cities (urban planning, Water & Sanitation, etc)

3. LEARNINGS: Vertical Integration Moving beyond DRR pilot projects & building ownership from governments (ISDR baseline data showing that 90% of DRR/CCA projects are initiated by NGOs) Incentives to promote duty bearers’ action on DRR & CCA: e.g. award schemes (Philippines) Horizontal Integration Making DRR & CCA useful for development Addressing root causes of vulnerability: integration into Livelihoods, Education, Health programmes DRR & CCA integration into Good Governance - e.g.: Philippines’ rationalised planning system (combines 29 separate planning processes into one)

4. QUESTIONS How to engage the private sector (and how to deal with extractive industries , palm oil Industry, tea plantations, etc) How to integrate climate science into DRR interventions (HVCAs, DRR Action plans M&E, etc) How to address the new challenges climate change brings to ecosystems What should we aim to do: integrate, link, mainstream DRR & CCA? How to make DRR & CCA “ useful” for development – poverty reduction, social justice and gender equity

5. Climate Smart approach to DRM involves the integration of three main components: tackling exposure to changing hazards and disaster impacts (DRR); enhancing adaptive capacity (CCA); addressing poverty, vulnerability and their causes (DEVELOPMENT).

6. OPPORTUNITIES 4th Asia Ministerial Meeting on DRR , Incheon, Korea: October 25-28 United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) - strategic programme framework for the UN country team UNESCAP’s Multi‐Hazard Climate Information Initiatives in the Region Regional CCA Knowledge Platform Rockefeller Foundation’s Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network Asian Program of Regional Capacity Enhancement for Landslide Impact Mitigation (RECLAIM) led by ADPC Influence programmes/projects to be implemented through the Adaptation Funding