Indo-Pacific Climate Challenge Summit & Expo - Indo-Pacific Climate Challenge Summit & Expo

The Indo-Pacific Climate Challenge Summit & Expo (“IP-CCSE”) is a platform for stakeholder engagement, education, and communication that advances cooperation in climate change mitigation and environmental protection.
The IP-CCSE also hosts annual hybrid convenings in the Indo-Pacific region, including in the United States. These invitation-only events host leaders and thinkers in policy, finance, business, technology, academia, government, and the media. Together, they elevate, design, and activate cumulative steps towards Net Zero and environmental rejuvenation.

The inaugural event will be hosted in Canberra, Australia, on October 8-9, 2025.

Future convenings include:

Tokyo, Japan, June 4-6, 2026
New Delhi, India, June 3-5, 2027
Washington, DC, June 4-6, 2028

More events will be organized throughout the Indo-Pacific Region to focus on national-specific issues and solutions.

CONTEXT

As the impacts of climate change grow in severity, new mechanisms are urgently needed to advance tangible progress towards reducing greenhouse gases, regenerating the environment, and achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The Indo-Pacific Region is particularly sensitive to the climate crisis due to its large populations, preponderance of coastlines, and dispersed island nations. The climate crisis has become an existential risk. More frequent and massive storms, floods, and wildfires are changing the availability of resources. Accelerated rising ocean levels reduce low-lying habitable areas. Because these conditions may compound and trigger global migrations and related conflicts, climate change is also a matter of national security for continental nations.

The Indo-Pacific Climate Challenge Summit & Expo (“IP-CCSE”) initiative aims to help secure tangible gains in public policies, green finance, climate-conscious investments, and civil society engagement. By facilitating thoughtful collaboration, the IP-CCSE spurs innovation and new developments. The ultimate goal is to generate and support the dynamics for continual cooperation and reforms, advancing global progress toward the sustainability of human development on Earth.

The Indo-Pacific Climate Challenge Summit & Expo (“IP-CCSE”)

The IP-CCSE Platform is a year-round hub for resource sharing, communication, and strategic connection building.

Tiered access to data and video libraries
Tiered communication capabilities
Strategic partnerships and networks

The IP-CCSE convening events

The Summit & Expo are annual hybrid convenings rotating in the Indo-Pacific. They are creative, immersive, wide-ranging events that engage the vast region’s ethnically and culturally diverse nations. They are opportunities for vertical cooperation between international organizations, national agencies, and civil society organizations. They activate a growing network around climate change data flow, mitigation, and carbon reduction solutions.

Summit:

Access: By invitation-only
Format: Conferences, panels, workshops, subject-focused networking
Examples of topics:
- green entrepreneurship, public-private partnerships, Extended Producers Responsibility, property value protection, transition to Net-Zero, infrastructure mitigation;
- regenerative farming and ranching, permaculture, fishing management, riparian regeneration, soil conservation, water management, minerals mining licensing, runoffs regulation, and decommissioning;
- industry and manufacturing; cities and infrastructure; transportation; building construction and temperature management; energy generation, storage, and transmission; green/blue hydrogen hubs;
- Air purity; plastic waste and microplastics; fossil fuels pollution; carbon capture and storage;
- Eco-systems and wildlife; weather engineering; circular economy and “U” economy; sustainability; human flourishing and peace.
Expo:
Exhibitions, trade booths, education, action guidance, conferences, panels, workshops; connections with schools and universities, links with corporations developing new technologies and techniques, and presentations from government environmental agencies, industries, and NGOs.
- Access: on the first day, by invitation only; on the second day, accredited professionals, schools, and universities; and on the third day, the general public.
- Site: The Expo will include booths for exhibitors, stages for conferences and panels, and delegates’ functions and meeting rooms. Large areas dedicated to industrial and home improvement presentations, electric vehicles, drone evolution in farming and ranching, and multi-renewable source/distributed storage microgrids.
- Events:
Youth Awards and Innovation Awards
Films and documentaries
Games/prizes, entertainment, music
Live video feeds, simulcasts, and recordings of all events and presentations
Curated showings of the video library

Mission Statement

Vision
A necessary step to solving the climate crisis is to define shared interests and objectives. The IP-CCSE activates cooperation between regional structures, such as the Quad and the High Ambition Coalition, and national agencies, such as Environmental Protection, Education, or Economic Development. Further collaboration is generated between agencies and industries, academia and businesses, education and entrepreneurs, and the public.
Objectives

Engage communities and leaders across the diverse Indo-Pacific region
Focus on island nations, whose people are on the frontline of climate change impacts
Advance public commonality and become a driving force for progress and change
Foster environmentalism and environmental protection
Conceive sustainable human development in harmonious balance with Nature
Design transition solutions to Net Zero and significant greenhouse gas reduction (GGR)
Demonstrate ecosystem regeneration
Develop concerted cooperation techniques such as Negotiated Regulations ©

Core values and issues

Strengthen communities through indigenous ecosystem-level knowledge, stewardship of the land, regenerative agriculture and ranching, and economic opportunities
Women’s education, empowerment, and economic opportunities
Multi-generational planning
Climate justice
Mitigation: infrastructure, buildings and dwellings, transportation, energy generation and transmission, cities and communities, water management
Global climate finance
Green Entrepreneurship focused on the youth
Public-private partnerships-based solutions

Execution and fulfillment

IP-CCSE.org is a US, California-based 501(c)(3) non-profit entity that designs, builds, and activates the IP-CCSE platforms. It also organizes and conducts the Summit & Expo. Its operations’ various actors are hired/subcontracted locally and remotely.

Addressing climate issues and building cooperation-based solutions is conducive to the Indo-Pacific geopolitical stability by addressing urgent concerns, generating equitable economic development, and ensuring environmental justice.

Cooperation-based action gathers energy between the COPs that feeds the media and social platform sharing, and builds public support for audacious NDCs. The IP-CCSE is an organization on a mission, gathering people with a purpose.

Indo-Pacific Region

The Indo-Pacific Region stretches from India to the western shores of the Americas, and from NE Asia to Australia and New Zealand. The region encompasses nations with many of the fastest-growing populations and industrial developments, creating unprecedented environmental pressures. Many countries are at immediate risk of massive floods, requiring urgent adaptation. In numerous areas, the regulatory universe is insufficient, which allows rapid environmental deterioration.

The region’s young populations, however, are dedicated to improve the earth’s environment, bringing dedication, creativity, and power to change the current paradigms and, in fact, save the world.

Quad

picturesque coral atoll island at Cook Islands

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (“Quad”) is a functional cooperation between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States. Its new Quad Climate Working Group (2021) should play a critical role in advancing climate goals in the region, as reflected in recent summits and related reports. (see extracts * I-IV, below). Public engagement efforts will assist the Quad’s long-term objectives and regional leadership.
The CCSE focuses on and supports two of the Quad Summit (*-II) objectives:
a. “Advancing low-emissions technology solutions to support emissions reduction;”

b. Bringing solutions to “climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience, technology, capacity- building, and climate finance.”

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Background/foundational reports:

I- Quad Leaders’ Joint Statement: “The Spirit of the Quad”

On this historic occasion of March 12, 2021, the first-ever leader-level summit of the Quad, we pledge to strengthen our cooperation on the defining challenges of our time.
We are united in recognizing that climate change is a global priority and will work to strengthen the climate actions of all nations, including to keep a Paris-aligned temperature limit within reach.

II- US White House fact sheet on the March 12, 2021, Quad Summit

“We have identified the climate challenge as a priority for the Quad and the Indo-Pacific region. We will establish a new Quad Climate Working Group focused on:

Cooperation, both among ourselves and with other countries, to strengthen the implementation of the Paris Agreement, including keeping a Paris-aligned temperature limit within reach;
Working together and with other countries to support, strengthen, and enhance actions globally;
Committing to advancing low-emissions technology solutions to support emissions reduction;
Cooperation on climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience, technology, capacity-building, and climate finance.”

III- Joint Statement from Quad Leaders, September 24, 2021

We have joined forces to tackle the climate crisis, which must be addressed with the urgency it demands. Quad countries will work together to keep the Paris-aligned temperature limits within reach and will pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. To this end, Quad countries intend to update or communicate ambitious NDCs by COP26 and welcome those who have already done so. Quad countries will also coordinate their diplomacy to raise global ambition, including reaching out to key stakeholders in the Indo-Pacific region. Our work is organized across three thematic areas: climate ambition, clean-energy innovation and deployment, and climate adaptation, resilience and preparedness, with the intent to pursue enhanced actions during the 2020s, contributing to the aim of achieving global net-zero emissions preferably by 2050, and taking into account national circumstances.

IV- Japan Ministry Of Foreign Affairs’ report of the May 24, 2022, Quad Leaders meeting in Tokyo:

“The Quad’s Climate Working Group collaborates on clean energy supply chains, disaster risk reduction, green shipping, and climate information exchanges. In 2022, Quad Leaders agreed to a Quad Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Package (Q-CHAMP) to accelerate cooperation on climate resilience in the region.”

“Climate: Recognizing the urgent need to address climate change as emphasized in the latest IPCC reports, we will steadfastly implement the Paris Agreement and deliver on the outcomes of COP26, accelerating our efforts to raise global ambition, including reaching out to key stakeholders in the Indo-Pacific region and supporting, strengthening, and enhancing climate actions by partners in the region including through mobilizing climate finance, both public and private, and facilitating the research, development, and deployment of innovative technology.

Today, we launch the “Quad Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Package (Q-CHAMP) with “mitigation” and “adaptation” as its two themes. […] To make Q-CHAMP tangible, we are committed to expanding our programs, in support of climate actions between our four countries as well as in the Indo-Pacific region. We recognize the immense challenges posed by climate change to the island nations of the Pacific.

We welcome the new Australian Government’s commitment to stronger action on climate change, including through passing legislation to achieve net zero by 2050 and lodging a new, ambitious Nationally Determined Contribution.”

CONTEXT

The Indo-Pacific Climate Challenge Summit & Expo (“IP-CCSE”)

Mission Statement

Indo-Pacific Region

Quad

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