Association of Pacific Rim Universities World Institute (APRU – AWI)

The APRU World Institute (AWI) was established in 2006 as a platform where leading researchers, policy advisors and business executives from APRU members and other invited institutions could transcend national borders to address issues of regional and global concern.

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies (AWI – CMAS)

The APRU World Institute research program on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies (AWI-CMAS) has developed with strong and increasing momentum since its first meeting of the representatives of the founding universities in October 2007 at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Following that the theme was focused and the work divided into projects which have already commenced with teams created around these in the growing number of participating universities.

At its March 2010 meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia,  the participants  had expanded from the founding universities (University of Melbourne, University of California at San Diego, National University of Singapore, University of Malaya, Chulalongakorn University, and Kyoto University) to include Australian National University, University of Indonesia, the United Nations University, the Asian Institute of Technology, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Southern California. The meeting included contributions from representatives of the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and USAID. Interest in the work of CMAS continues to grow rapidly with other universities actively interested in joining its work.
  

Over the period since its establishment, AWI-CMAS has focused its work around examining, on a comparative basis, key issues associated with integrated water management systems in major Pacific Rim coastal cities that need to live with the stresses of economic and population growth and climate change.