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- Episode 4 of the Webinar Series on the Economics of Climate Change will highlight the value of nature, which is too often unpriced or undervalued. It will also focus on actions policy makers can take to reverse this trend, restore natural capital, and support ‘nature-positive’ investments. Through examples from across the region and beyond, experts will explore various economic tools, market-based instruments, and other solutions available to stop natural capital degradation.
- The webinar will focus on different policy instruments that promote the protection of natural capital, and their importance in aligning incentives.
- This virtual conference will explore food and nutritional security development, gaps, and opportunities for policy collaboration in Asia and Pacific
- ADB, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan (MAFF) is organizing the 2nd Expert Committee Meeting on Climate-Resilient Agriculture and Low-Carbon Food Systems in the ASEAN Region on 12 March 2024.
- This flyer promotes the Nature Solutions Finance Hub—a platform with innovative finance approaches that can proactively amplify nature-based solutions projects for a measurable impact in conserving the region’s biodiversity and ensuring climate resiliency.
- This international conference aims to draw lessons about effective policy responses to maintain economic stability and growth in Asian developing and emerging economies, with a special emphasis on economic, business, and wellbeing issues in the course of recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as in response to geopolitical turbulence and shocks around the world.
- ADBI is organizing a workshop with LPEM UI and GraSPP. The workshop consists of three sessions, discussing aspects of green and blue development.
- Almost half of migratory species are in decline and more than 20% are threatened, according to the State of the World’s Migratory Species report.
- The collective efforts and resilience of Pacific Island communities in the face of climate change highlight the importance of international support and sustainable infrastructure to combat environmental challenges.
- Municipal waste (or solid waste) production in the Philippines has significantly increased due to rapid urbanization and increasing concentration of people and business activities.
- The second CRPP Partnership Forum aims to discuss what role can poverty reduction programs play in building climate resilience.
- ADB will hold the 2nd Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP) Partnership Forum on 27-28 February 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand.
- This report explains why strengthening the governance around public investment management is central to cutting inefficiencies and unblocking the climate finance needed to narrow Asia and the Pacific’s gaping infrastructure gap.
- Strong and effective policy interventions are essential for the deployment of thermal energy storage and demand response technologies.
- This note explains how ADB’s Community Resilience Partnership Program helps countries in Asia and the Pacific ramp up investment in adaptation to bolster the resilience of the region’s poor and vulnerable communities against the rising impacts of climate change.
- The Second Roundtable of the ADBI-ADB Asian Climate Finance Dialogue will build upon discussions from the First Roundtable, which was held virtually on 20 November 2023. It will cover (i) the importance of climate-related disclosure with a focus on regional trends in compliance/preparation for the adoption of ISSB standards and (ii) the challenges associated with the monitoring and tracking of Scope 3 emissions, including reporting. Representatives from each jurisdiction will also provide updates on the implementation of climate-related disclosure and ISSB Standards and progress being made to measure Scope 3 emissions. Sessions will facilitate policy dialogue and sharing of good practices, challenges, and opportunities among the participants.
- Analyzing how intensifying climate change threatens to increase poverty and hunger in Asia and the Pacific, this report highlights the need for transformative solutions that advance climate action, increase resilience, and protect hard-fought development gains.
- The impacts of climate change, including slow and sudden onset weather events, are reducing the ability of countries to meet their SDGs, according to a report released today by ADB, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
- A 3-day workshop co-hosted by ADBI, OPRI, and SIIF will focus on implementing blue finance policies to support a healthy ocean economy through collaboration among experts from the private sector, government, and other organizations.
- Identification of the challenge of access to climate adaptation finance and the design and implementation of feasible and effective climate adaptation interventions.