Climate Action Resources Network – Asia Pacific (CARN-AP) is a space for uniting voices of professionals, agencies and volunteers working in the Asia and the Pacific regions. It emerged from the realization that experts and agencies working in different thematic domains, at different scales with diverse communities need a platform for knowledge sharing on adaptation to climate change and enhance community resilience through discussing, sharing and dissemination of relevant learning, techniques, good practices, innovations.

Our experience suggests that it is difficult to assess the climate change impacts thoroughly in rural, semi-urban and urban contexts, both at scale and across the scale, due to the hurdles like non-availability of required data, inaccessibility of hardware/software/man-power for examining the spatially referenced large datasets (e.g., demographic, health, socio-economic) and prediction modeling and the absence of effective, mutually respectful inter-agency linkages for sharing the best practices, technologies and innovations to address climate change induced challenges.

We also felt that promotion of volunteerism could play big roles in bringing change in the lives of people who are suffering from a range of climate change challenges in the Asia Pacific regions. In this backdrop, Climate Action Resource Network (for Asia and Pacific regions; in short CARN-AP) has been developed by more than 100 people genuinely concerned for resilience building,  from different parts of the Asia and Pacific as a space for exchange of ideas, repository of available data, technology and approachable platform for enquiring, exchanging and utilizing all such resources.