ASEAN: From regional cooperation to global climate action

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Facing acute climate risks, ASEAN is taking its united front to COP31, turning regional solidarity into global action for a resilient and sustainable future.

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Facing acute climate risks, ASEAN is taking its united front to COP31, turning regional solidarity into global action for a resilient and sustainable future.

limate change is one of the most urgent challenges facing the world today. Rising temperatures, intensifying extreme weather conditions and mounting pressures on ecosystems and livelihoods are reshaping our development prospects and testing our collective resilience. Climate change knows no borders, and no country can confront its consequences alone.

In an age of growing climate risk and uncertainty, regional solidarity, international cooperation and decisive collective action are indispensable. For ASEAN, the task goes beyond reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It is to build a more resilient, sustainable and inclusive future for our region and the planet.

When ASEAN leaders adopted the ASEAN Community Vision 2045, “Our Shared Future”, on May 26, 2025 they charted an ambitious course toward a resilient, innovative, dynamic and people-centered region. That vision echoes the theme of the Philippines’ 2026 ASEAN chairmanship, “Navigating Our Future, Together”, which reflects our shared determination to meet emerging challenges through unity and cooperation. Climate action is central to realizing this vision, as we turn our collective aspirations into concrete, sustainable outcomes.

Home to nearly 700 million people, with a combined gross domestic product of about US$4.3 trillion in 2025, ASEAN has emerged as a major regional and global economic actor. It is also a custodian of natural assets of global importance.

The region occupies more than 3 percent of the world’s total land area, yet it holds more than 25 percent of the world’s known plant and animal species and approximately 27 million hectares of peatlands, nearly 40 percent of…

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