Events & Dialogues
Closed‑Door, Open Impact: How APF Designs Strategic Roundtables
The most productive meetings are often the least photographed. APF favors curated, Chatham‑House‑style roundtables where operators compare notes. Smaller rooms, bigger candor: that’s where procurement constraints surface, legal blind spots get admitted, and “we tried that—here’s why it failed” becomes a gift, not a liability. The outputs are not communiqués but checklists—and checklists, when shared openly, become public goods.
Public Forums with Purpose: Engaging Communities for Change
Public forums do something different: they normalize new expectations. When a financial leader sets out the scale of capital required for decarbonization, “climate finance” stops sounding like an activist’s concern and starts sounding like everyone’s day job. APF uses these stages to stress‑test messages and recruit collaborators across the region.
What We Learned from UNESCAP: Notes from the APBF Partnership
Two lessons travel well from UNESCAP’s convenings. First, the region wants interoperability—tools that carry meaning across jurisdictions. Second, progress loves portability—playbooks a district officer in Lao PDR and an SME in Sham Shui Po can both use on Monday morning. APBF’s framing of an Asia‑Pacific Green Deal for Business is, at its core, a push toward both.