UNDP is scaling-up our support to countries through “UNDP’s Climate Promise: Ambition, Acceleration and Mobilization.” UNDP will provide support to 100 countries to accelerate the enhancement of national climate pledges by 2020, building on our climate action portfolio in over 140 countries. And we are developing new ways of mobilizing all people to inform climate action.

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We have been supporting countries since the very early stages of this crisis, having donated more than two million surgical masks and providing life supporting medical equipment such as x-ray machines, infrared thermometers, infusion pumps, protective suits, gloves and hand sanitizer.

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UNDP partners with people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of growth that improves the quality of life for everyone. UNDP in Asia and the Pacific delivers country and regional programmes in 36 countries through 25 UNDP Country Offices and the Bangkok Regional Hub to help empower lives and build resilient nations.

The Asia-Pacific Region’s prolonged economic growth in the past decades have come at great environmental costs, largely through manufacturing activities, consumption and urbanization. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the degree of interdependence among Asia-Pacific economies through its network of global value chains; and coupled with existing risks from global climate change, the region's entire economic model is at risk. The options available in the international financial system severely hamper climate finance options, and developing economies in the region must contend with high financing costs for their physical climate investments. This paper outlines how nations can reorient investment decisions and mobilize necessary finances to sustain growth. It also considers the social and political aspects of upgrading the social provisioning and care sectors which the region’s economies depend in tandem with economic growth and in the context of global climate change. Possible remedies would not only be appropriate for financing climate action; they would also prove necessary for the long-term sustainability and efficiency of inter-national financial markets.

An earthquake shattered millions of lives in Nepal, UNDP is working to help people recover and rebuild stronger.

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