"Accelerating climate change will generate significant social, economic and political disruption globally and in the Asia-Pacific region by the middle of this century. It will profoundly reshape the socio-economic risks people face and their ability to meet basic needs, significantly extending poverty and vulnerability.

Social protection, the set of public measures provided by a society to transfer resources with the aim of protecting its members against economic and social distress, has the potential to play an important role in helping to manage these challenges and enabling the structural changes required to achieve a green transition. However, to contribute effectively, existing social protection systems will need significant transformation in terms of scale and design.

This report aims to support a shift in vision around social protection and climate change in the Asia-Pacific region by improving understanding of the socio-economic challenges likely to arise from climate change in the medium to long term, and how social protection can be used to manage them. The report provides a framework which goes beyond the more usual analysis – focused on climate extremes, shocks and disasters – to conceptualise the wider set of risks arising from climate change, and the potential role of social protection to address them."

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ISBN (PDF) : 978-1-74322-625-4