ICSC AT BANGKOK CLIMATE ACTION WEEK 2026
The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC) joins Bangkok Climate Action Week 2026 with a series of events on climate, energy, and mobility – built around this year’s theme, “Rai Likit: Economy we shape, Climate We Share”.
Overview
Bangkok Climate Action Week (BKKCAW) is the largest annual climate gathering in the Asia Pacific region, with the aim of mobilizing individuals, communities, and institutions to co-create meaningful change, celebrating local leadership, and encouraging collective imagination to shape a climate-safe, inclusive future for Southeast Asia.
Inspired by London Climate Action Week, the 2026 edition of BKKCAW runs 3-11 October in venues across Bangkok, organized by the Just Transitions Incubator (JUTI) in collaboration with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. This year’s theme, Rao Likit – New Economy, New Climate, reflects the week’s ten thematic clusters across six cross-cutting agendas that each partner event is designed around.
ICSC is contributing to a number of events and activities organized under BKKCAW 2026, centered on climate, energy, and mobility: examining how Southeast Asian cities can accelerate a just, well-governed transition.
Final details for ICSC’s event programme are being finalized; this page will be updated as sessions are confirmed.
Upcoming Events and Programs
Building People-Centered Mobility: Where Does the Shift Need to Happen in South and Southeast Asia?
A candid fireside chat examining where transport systems across South and Southeast Asia are falling short — from fossil-fuel dependence and fuel-price shocks to who gets left behind — and what civil society, non-state actors, and funders can do to advance inclusive, locally grounded mobility solutions as the UN's Decade of Sustainable Transport begins.
ASEAN Youth Dialogue on Climate and Energy
A dialogue convening ASEAN youth and partners for a regional dialogue on climate and energy, exploring pathways for regional youth collaboration in the areas of energy transition, the climate–biodiversity nexus, and climate finance. Through peer-to-peer learning and engagement, the dialogue aims to strengthen participants' capacity to contribute meaningfully to climate policy discussions and collective youth-led action across the ASEAN region.
Multi-Stakeholder Workshop on Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE): Localising ASEAN's Energy Transition
A workshop designed to explore how Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) can be a practical pathway for ASEAN Member States to achieve energy security and resilience, and showcase opportunities to leverage the DRE resources in the region, especially in the midst of increasing regional energy demand.
The ASEAN Power Grid: Regional Power Integration and the Opportunity for Distributed Renewable Energy
A roundtable with ASEAN Member States and key stakeholders on how the ASEAN Power Grid can unlock the region's renewable energy potential — examining what it will take to expand cross-border electricity trade, strengthen energy security, and build more resilient power systems, with perspectives from the Philippines as 2026 ASEAN Chair and incoming chair Singapore.
Multi-Actor Partnership on Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (MAP-CDRFI) Southeast Asia Roundtable Discussion
A practitioner-focused roundtable on how climate and disaster risk finance and insurance (CDRFI) products are formulated and implemented in Southeast Asia — examining real product experiences, the conditions needed to make them inclusive, affordable, and scalable, and where regional cooperation can add value, building on the MAP-CDRFI Southeast Asia Regional Workshop held in Bangkok in May 2026.