🎥 Watch the highlights from Bangkok Climate Action Week 2025!     From September 30 to October 3, 2025, Fair Finance Asia (FFA) and Fair Finance Thailand (FFT) convened multi-stakeholder discussions u...

BANGKOK, THAILAND – October 13, 2026 – At Bangkok Climate Action Week (BKKCAW) 2026, Indonesian research institutions, organisations, and local leaders unveiled a practical framework for a restorative economy. This model gives Southeast Asia an opportunity to build economic systems that actively replenish ecosystems instead of just extracting value from natural resources. The agenda is modeled around regional potential and backed by new CELIOS (The Center of Economic and Law Studies) research showing restorative economic practices in neighboring Indonesia alone could generate Rp 2,208 trillion (approx. ₱8 trillion / US$140+ billion) in national economic output over 25 years while cutting income inequality by 15%. For the Philippines, the model offers an important blueprint. The country is ranked as one of the world’s most vulnerable nations to climate-induced disasters. As national government climate expenditures exceed ₱1.16 trillion annually and adaptation financing needs approach US$100 billion through 2040, the Indonesian sessions demonstrated how community-led nature restoration across 23,470 villages can move beyond isolated projects into mainstream, scalable economic models across Southeast Asia. Convened under the BKKCAW theme “Economy We Shape, Climate We Share,” the program showed how economic activity itself can rebuild natural systems and strengthen local livelihoods. The CELIOS study reflects the Philippines' urgent need to address extreme weather hazards across the country. As seen in recent months, the climate crisis has severely impacted Southeast Asia. News of extreme flooding and typhoon damage across Metro Manila, Luzon, and Visayas, and urban inundation in Bangkok and Johor Bahru, alongside destructive forest fires in Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Papua, has filled everyone’s television sets and social media feeds. ** From extracting value to restoring value** For CELIOS, the transition requires changes in the way economies raise, allocate, and distribute capital. On October 5, CELIOS joined PINUS Indonesia, The Reform Initiatives, and Publish What You Pay Indonesia for “Building Indonesia's Green Finance Architecture: From Macro-Fiscal Policy to Inclusive Grassroots Benefit Sharing.” The speakers for the session, “Building Indonesia's Green Finance Architecture: From Macro-Fiscal Policy to Inclusive Grassroots Benefit Sharing”. The session examined how instruments such as Ecological Fiscal Transfers (EFT), ecological and windfall profit taxes can be designed to direct resources toward ecological priorities and local economies. Indonesia's experience with Ecological Fiscal Transfers across 43 subnational governments provides one example of how fiscal policy can connect national revenues with environmental performance and local development. The discussion also considered how green finance can reach community-led initiatives and improve benefit-sharing at the grassroots level. “We must elevate the nature-based economy beyond basic conservation and position it at the center of national economic strategy,” said Bhima Yudhistira, Executive Director of CELIOS. “Through equitable fiscal mechanisms and transparent benefit-sharing, we can attract capital while ensuring transition dividends directly enrich local communities on the frontline.” **Restoration as an economic activity** At the landscape level, Cendekia Iklim Indonesia (CII) explored what a restorative economy looks like when it is built around the ecosystems that sustain local economies. Its programme, “Wealth That Flows: Building Prosperity Through Watershed Regeneration in Southeast Asia,” focused on the relationship between healthy watersheds, livelihoods and local economic activity. A featured session on “Restoring Watersheds through Agroforestry” explored how agroforestry and landscape restoration can support both ecological recovery and rural livelihoods. The panel for the discussion on “Wealth That Flows: Building Prosperity Through Watershed Regeneration in Southeast Asia”. The discussion included examples such as coffee and macadamia agroforestry in Doi Tung, where agricultural production forms part of a wider approach to landscape restoration and community development. CII emphasized that restoring nature is a value-generative investment rather than an ongoing expense. The organization underscored that regenerating watersheds through sustainable agroforestry secures critical water systems, builds rural livelihoods, and constructs a scalable economic playbook for the wider Mekong and ASEAN region. ** A Pavilion for Global South Solidarity and Practical Bioeconomy** Organised by Koalisi Ekonomi Membumi (KEM), the Nature-Based Economy Pavilion at Lumpini Park (October 5–7) served as a collaborative hub bringing together social entrepreneurs, impact investors, civil society, researchers, and policymakers from across the Global South. Rather than viewing climate action in isolation, the pavilion demonstrated how responsible bioeconomy models can connect local producers directly with absorbents, capital, and policy design. “Climate action strategies cannot operate in isolation; they require active, cross-sector collaboration,” said Fito Rahdianto, Executive Director of KEM. “If dreaming of a better world feels too abstract, we can at least offer a new perspective to imagine life beyond the extractive systems we inherited, building a responsible bioeconomy that creates value from biodiversity while ensuring social and environmental well-being.” ** From Nature-Based Solutions to a Restorative Economy** Across these discussions, the message was simple: restoration can be part of how economies create value, not simply a cost of doing business. From green finance and fiscal reform to agroforestry and watershed restoration, participating Indonesian organisations explored what it takes to build economic models that strengthen both local livelihoods and the natural systems they depend on. This exploration of ideas aimed to create regional awareness of how restorative economic practices practiced not only at the grassroots level but also at the national and Southeast Asian level will contribute to positive impact for society and the environment.

As the Philippines and its ASEAN neighbors face compounding climate risks, regional research points to a shift from extractive industries to a restorative economy as a path to long-term prosperity, protected watersheds and safer frontline communities. At Bangkok Climate Action Week (BKKCAW) 2026, Indonesian research institutes, organizations and local leaders unveiled a practical framework for a restorative economy. This model gives Southeast Asia an opportunity to build economic systems that actively replenish ecosystems rather than just extracting value from natural resources.

As the Philippines and its ASEAN neighbors face compounding climate risks, regional research points to a shift from extractive industries to a restorative economy as a path to long-term prosperity, protected watersheds and safer frontline communities. At Bangkok Climate Action Week (BKKCAW) 2026, Indonesian research institutes, organizations and local leaders unveiled a practical framework for a restorative economy. This model gives Southeast Asia an opportunity to build economic systems that actively replenish ecosystems rather than just extracting value from natural resources.

On 3 October, Bangkok Climate Action Week (BKKCAW) 2026 begins with a packed program bringing together policymakers, researchers, financiers, students, artists, community leaders, the media, and the general public. Lasting until 11 October, the events range from high-level dialogues, expert panels and interactive art to film workshops, community conversations and networking receptions, all spread across multiple venues in the city. BKKCAW 2026 has grown compared to the inaugural event in 2025, with a greater number and scale of sessions, events, activities and venues to discuss and address climate issues. Billed as the largest climate gathering in the Asia-Pacific to date, BKKCAW aims to provide “a platform for citizens, creatives, communities, and institutions to come together in new ways, celebrating local leadership and collective imagination to shape a climate-safe, inclusive future for Southeast Asia”. Financing the climate transition SEI’s engagement during BKKCAW includes a series of sessions focusing on climate finance, a key challenge for climate action. The Inclusive Climate Finance for Vulnerable Communities in the Asia-Pacific (ICCAP) project leads the session on “Mobilizing Climate Finance for Climate-Resilient Development”. This event translates ICCAP’s country-level evidence from six countries into a coherent regional policy narrative, and senior experts will explore where barriers...

Bangkok Climate Action Week (BKKCAW) is a regional climate gathering activating the power of people to drive meaningful change from 3 to 11 October 2026.

Bangkok Climate Action Week (BKKCAW) will take place from 3 to 11 October 2026. At BKKCAW 2026, SEI Asia brings evidence to action — bridging research, policy and finance for climate resilience across Asia. SEI Asia will convene and contribute to sessions on inclusive climate finance, equitable low-carbon mobility and workforce development for a just energy transition in Thailand. These discussions will draw on regional evidence to examine barriers, identify solutions and support concrete policy and on-the-ground commitments. Join SEI Asia at BKKCAW to engage with research and dialogue on critical climate and environmental challenges across the region. Unlocking Her Climate Capital: Financing women-led climate solutions Organizer: Women Climate Initiative (WCI) When: 8:30-12:00 Where: Nextopia, Siam Paragon Women-led climate solutions hold enormous potential, but too many entrepreneurs still face barriers to accessing the finance, networks and policy support needed to grow. This session brings together entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers and ecosystem leaders to explore a critical question: How can we de-risk the entrepreneur, de-risk the investment and unlock the opportunity? Through bold perspectives, practical solutions and the voices of young women, the discussion will examine what it takes to build a stronger pipeline of women-led climate ventures and green jobs. Participants...

SEI Asia will lead sessions to explore research and innovative solutions to tackle the climate crisis during the Bangkok Climate Action Week (BKKCAW).

37 Pillars Suites & Residences Bangkok and Fenn Designers are taking part in the inaugural Bangkok Climate Action Week (BKKCAW) 2025 an event organised by BMA.

Rockefeller Foundation’s continued support for BKKCAW aims to strengthen locally-led climate action BANGKOK | June 4, 2026 — The Rockefeller Foundation today announced a US$300,000 grant to the Just Transitions Incubators (JUTI) to form a diverse, multistakeholder coalition to deliver its flagship initiative, the Bangkok Climate Action Week (BKKCAW) in 2026 and 2027. BKKCAW 2026 will take place from October 3–11, 2026. This grant will enable JUTI to strengthen BKKCAW as a coalition-driven platform for climate action by building a broad-based movement, formalizing governance to enhance accountability and shared ownership, and improving systems for stakeholder engagement, strategic communications, partnerships, and learning. Bringing together a wide range of public institutions, civil society and community organizations, philanthropic actors, private sector partners, and research and knowledge institutions, coalition members are united in advancing climate solutions for people and planet. “The Bangkok Climate Action Week is opportunity to build momentum behind the solutions, people, and organizations helping improve life for vulnerable people in Southeast Asia,” said Deepali Khanna, Senior Vice President and Head of Asia at The Rockefeller Foundation. “By supporting BKKCAW, The Rockefeller Foundation is helping JUTI bring together governments, communities, researchers, philanthropies, and businesses around shared opportunities and shared challenges. BKKCAW brings...

Recap of Fair Finance Asia and Fair Finance Thailand's engagements at Bangkok Climate Action Week #BKKCAW from September 30 to October 3.  💡Youth digital campaigning workshop  FFA and FFT hosted an ...

This video features the panel discussion “Enabling Climate Action in Developing Countries Through Climate Finance: From Knowledge to Practice” bringing together diverse perspectives from experts and practitioners. Discussions explored critical issues such as institutional capacity gaps, access to private climate finance, the role of the private sector and the role of green taxonomies in enabling effective climate action. This event also marks the completion of the online course "Climate Finance for Professionals (CFP) Training" during which course students shared reflections, exchange experience and attended the certificate awarding ceremony. The event was held on October 3, 2025, as part of the Bangkok Climate Action Week at the Renaissance Bangkok Ratchaprasong hotel. It was organised by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI Asia), the Center for Ecological Economics (CEE), Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University and the Rockefeller Foundation.