Sustainable Infrastructure
ADB promotes a shift to environmentally sustainable, low-carbon, and climate-resilient infrastructure to reduce negative impacts on the environment while more effectively serving the needs of local communities.
The Asia and Pacific region's projected investments in infrastructure amounts to trillions of dollars per year. This presents a significant opportunity to design, build, and operate infrastructure based on the principles of sustainability and inclusive green growth. ADB promotes infrastructure investments that optimize the use of renewable resources and improve resource use efficiency. At the same time, sustainable infrastructure can serve the needs of local communities, find appropriate roles for public and private sectors, and minimize environmental impacts.
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Green Growth Opportunities for Asia
Asia has developed an expertise in innovation and has a comparative advantage in climate change mitigation technologies. Particular strengths include efficient lighting, photovoltaics, energy storage technologies, nuclear, and smart grids. -
Nature-Based Solutions for Building Resilience in Towns and Cities: Case Studies from the Greater Mekong Subregion
Green infrastructure can play a significant role in offsetting losses from climate-related disasters and contribute to building resilience through rehabilitation and expansion of natural ecosystems within built areas. -
ADB Clean Energy Bonds 2016
ADB has raised over $820 million of clean energy bonds since 2010, and has invested $2.5 billion in clean energy across Asia and the Pacific in 2015. -
GrEEEn Solutions for Livable Cities
Practical ways on how urban managers, development practitioners, businesses, and citizens can engage to make cities more livable by building on the city’s unique physical, social, cultural, economic and human resource assets. -
Hue GrEEEn City Action Plan
Viet Nam’s Hue city and Thua Thien Hue province have formulated a vision for integrated, sustainable development and translated it with assistance from ADB into a GrEEEn City Action Plan. -
Vinh Yen GrEEEn City Action Plan
Viet Nam’s Vinh Yen city and Vinh Phuc province have formulated a vision for integrated, sustainable development of the city and translated it with assistance from ADB into a GrEEEn City Action Plan. -
Promoting Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage through Carbon Dioxide-Enhanced Oil Recovery in the People’s Republic of China
Declining oil productions from matured oil fields in the People’s Republic of China and their amenability to CO2-EOR suggest the urgent need to introduce CO2-EOR in these oil fields to stabilize the oil production and improve their economic viability. -
Making Renewable Energy a Success in Bangladesh: Getting the Business Model Right
This paper analyzes the success of the solar home system program in Bangladesh, which today provides clean, reliable electricity to more than 16 million people in rural off-grid areas. -
City Sanitation Strategies in the Mekong Delta
Life in the Mekong Delta region of Viet Nam is defined by water. With rapid urbanization, water pollution from domestic and industrial waste has become a serious environmental and public health problem. -
Urban Sanitation Issues in Viet Nam
An ADB study identifies major issues influencing performance and achievements, and highlights policy implications and choices that will determine future progress toward Viet Nam's environmental objectives and targets.