Climate Risk and Resilience in Angkor

This first-ever locally led climate risk assessment for Angkor takes a values-based, community-led approach, recognizing the site as a living cultural landscape where heritage, nature, and local communities are closely interconnected. Driven by site custodians from the APSARA National Authority, the report draws on both scientific climate projections and community consultation to project a future in 2060 that is markedly warmer and wetter. Hazards like erratic rainfall and rising temperatures pose heightened risk to its UNESCO inscribed values, as well as new values uncovered through this engagement process, including natural, economic, and community health. Fortunately, existing conservation, water management, and protection by forests with two million replanted trees buffer these risks, resulting in an overall moderate level of risk.