In the morning and afternoon we open with the GEF context and how it meets OPDC's priorities, then hand the day over. Three stages of inquiry: what Thailand is reaching for and where progress has stalled, a closer look at the openings for change, and using all of it to shape the Lab itself.

We worked across our implementation lens — *From Plans to Place* — and three provisional inquiry areas: water allocation and ecosystem needs; haze, burning and agricultural livelihoods; and coastal development, fisheries and livelihoods.

The room included government partners, civil society, private sector, academia, and development partners.

By early evening we hosted the "Community, Ecosystem and Partnership Exchange". The most open part of the day and designed for anyone working on systems impact in the climate–biodiversity–food space in Bangkok. Fewer slides, more conversation.

Singapore was something different, and we want to be clear about that: it's not a Country Lab launch. It unfolded the same week the first two Labs go live, which makes it our first invitation outward — to partners interested in co-designing, orchestrating or financing this kind of work.

On September 10 we co-hosted a session "What Capital Cannot See: A Systems Finance R&D Laboratory".

The problem we circled: capital moves readily toward discrete projects, and struggles with the connective tissue — the trust built conversation by conversation, which turns out to determine whether a transition holds together at all. Our question for the room: what if multi-sector collaborations could be incubated the way startups are?

Thirty minutes of provocation, then sixty of actual laboratory work across two tracks — underwriting the invisible, and orchestrating the mix.

Joining us: Kirsten Dunlop (Climate KIC), Nicole Campbell (Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors), James Ong (Gingko Asset Management), Irina Goryunova (UNDP Thailand), Riza Aryani (SecondMuse), Parijat Chakrabarti (Georgetown) and Courtney Savie Lawrence (C3 Labs, UNDP).

You can see our learning and reflections post here.

Same shape as Bangkok, genuinely different substance. Three provisional lenses: national–county co-governance; production, markets and ecological resilience; and restoration, livelihoods and living landscapes.

Devolution gives this its particular character, and it's part of what drew us here. Counties hold substantial planning and implementation responsibility. National institutions hold policy and financing roles. And catchments, rangelands, markets and climate risks pay no attention whatsoever to that boundary.

Similar to Bangkok's set up, the session included government partners and a range of cross sector stakeholders. More about what we learned and next steps coming soon!