At Mongolia Sustainability Dialogue, APARC Advances Regional Cooperation on Climate Action

Progress on climate action remains uneven in Asia-Pacific nations. Natural disasters across the region and levels of greenhouse gas emissions are rising, while climate targets are alarmingly backsliding. Against this backdrop, Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) joined the Office of the President of Mongolia and the Ban Ki-moon Foundation for a Better Future in convening the Sustainability Dialogue 2025 on “Climate Action: Billions of Trees.”

Hosted by the Office of the President of Mongolia and held at the State Palace in Ulaanbaatar on June 6, 2025, the dialogue brought together senior policymakers, academics, private sector leaders, and civil society representatives to accelerate collaborative climate solutions and strengthen regional partnerships for sustainable development, focusing on Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate Action.

This event builds on the momentum of prior convenings as part of the Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue, a policy research initiative launched by APARC and the Ban Ki-moon Foundation in 2022 to accelerate the implementation of the United Nations-adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by spurring research and policy partnerships between experts from the United States and Asia.